Fwd: Artist talk: John Young in conversation with Andy Butler

[Michelle Antoinette]

An intergenerational conversation for 'A Moment in Extended Crisis'

View this email in your browser In conversation: John Young and Andy Butler   Thursday 20 June, 5pm UTS Gallery Free, RSVP essential Join us for a conversation between guest curator Andy Butler and artist John Young, whose work provides a conceptual and historical touchstone for our current exhibition A Moment in Extended Crisis. John Young’s Manchurian Snow Walk (1979), shown in our current exhibition as a performance documentation with instructions, was performed three years after the death of Mao. Young was sent away from Hong Kong in 1967 at 11 years old by his family, to protect him from the Cultural Revolution. As a 23-year-old art student, deeply entrenched in the Conceptualism, Minimalism, and Land Art movements of the 1970s, Young’s father bought him a train ticket to the farthest corner of mainland China for reasons still unknown, and too late to discover. Young traipsed back and forth from a single point, tracing lines in the snow, with the indication of his presence bound to disappear. A Moment in Extended Crisis brings together artists who track histories and contemporary resonances of movement and migration that occur against the backdrop of large scale political upheaval. The artists in this exhibition approach and process the intimate and personal worlds that are left in the long shadows of revolution, military interventions, exile, and emigration to the west. The exhibition asks how we carry these legacies across time and space, and how our current political worlds hold the traces of individual and collective experience. The exhibition continues to 28 June. RSVP About the artist John Young is a Hong Kong born artist who, since 1979, has had more than 80 solo exhibitions, and four survey exhibitions (including Tarrawarra Museum of Art and Drill Hall Gallery, ANU). His works have been shown in major exhibitions both in Australia and abroad, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and collected by the M+ Museum, Hong Kong. Young was seminal in establishing the Asian Australian Artists' Association in 1995, now the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Since 2008, he has dedicated much of his work in developing a visual history of the Chinese in Australia (1840-1967). In 2020 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the Visual Arts as a contemporary artist and painter. UTS Gallery & Art Collection welcomes all visitors. Please let us know how we can support your access requirements. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.   Images: [1] John Young, Manchurian Snow Walk, Completed, 1979. Digital print on rag paper, 68cm x 97.42cm. Courtesy the artist.  [2] John Young. Photo: Brie Hammond. UTS Gallery & Art Collection University of Technology Sydney Level 4, Building 6, 702 Harris Street Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Add us to your address book General enquiries: +61 2 9514 1652 Copyright © 2024 UTS Gallery & Art Collection. All rights reserved.   Unsubscribe from this list You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to UTS Gallery & Art Collection news. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F. DISCLAIMER: Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.