Nancy P. Lin is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese art and architecture with a particular interest in the relationship between art and urbanism. Her current book project, Art On-Site: Situating Global Contemporaneity in 1990s China, examines locally situated, yet globally oriented site-based art practices in China during the 1990s and early 2000s. She is co-curator of the exhibition “Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China” at the Johnson Museum of Art. Her recent publications have been featured in Art Journal, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and other edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.

Song Dong (b. 1966), a key figure in Chinese contemporary art, explores themes of memory, self-expression, impermanence, and the transience of human endeavors. His projects are often composed with quotidian objects and ephemera, proposing a destabilization of material hierarchies in relationship to personal and global conditions and experiences. Song’s practice encompasses performance, installation, video, sculpture, painting, and calligraphy, often combining mediums within a single work. Themes of consumption, poverty, and globalization are examined and presented as a means to inspire dialogue and participation.