Rewatch the first event in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series, “

Energies of Attachment: Rethinking Intimacy in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Art

,” at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where Cheng and Li discuss the plethora of intimate tetherings that form their world(s), from the relationship between art-making and the imagination of sociality, to the fissures between the private and the public, and the friendship between the artist and the writer/critic. Their discussion also places a particular emphasis on the practice and medium of painting, and was moderated by Deputy Director Michèle Ruo Yi Landolt.

FilmINTIMATE TETHERINGS: XINYI CHENG AND ALVIN LI IN CONVERSATION Courtauld Lecture Series 2023, Lecture Recording

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INTIMATE TETHERINGS: XINYI CHENG AND ALVIN LI IN CONVERSATION Courtauld Lecture Series 2023, Lecture Recording