Intended Audience
Power and Photography
Lecture by Tristan Cai, Assistant Professor of Photography, Department of Art & Art History
Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 12 Noon-1 p.m. (via Zoom)
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In this lecture, Professor Tristan Cai will share his recent art project, The Aesthetics of Disappearance based on narratives of indentured servitude in colonial Southeast Asia and Pacific region. Cai will delve into his research materials and unpack present-day observations of the colonial legacies left by the British empire. He will also highlight the role which photography plays in historiography and how with creative appropriation of historical images, we can present alternative points of view and resist historical amnesia.
Assistant Professor of Photography, Tristan Cai is a 2021 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award winner, and an internationally active artist. His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at DECK, Singapore, Lucie Foundation’s MOPLA, Los Angeles, Phoenix Art Museum, Noorderlicht Photography Festival Netherlands, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul and more. Cai has been serving as Assistant Professor of Photography in the Art and Art History Department at SMCM since 2016. Artist website:https://www.tristancai.com