Lecture: Daniel S. Wang May 26, 2005

Dan S. Wang, a Chicago-based artist, writer and activist and a 1990 Carleton graduate, will present a talk titled ?Dan S. Wang: On Art and Diasporic Experience? at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 26 at Carleton College?s Boliou Hall, Room 161. Wang?s presentation will focus on how diasporic experience informs his perspective on tactical media, group work and experimental art. The talk is part of the Christopher U. Light lectures in the arts, and is free and open to the public.

In an article on the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee?s web site, Wang wrote: ?I explore questions of identity by examining my relationships to various social groups?Wrestling with this problem of identity definition is the primary concern in all of my artwork.?
Wang has presented exhibitions and lectures around the country. His work has appeared in a group art show at Blue River Gallery, as a part of the Florida Printmakers Society?s Ninth Annual Print Exhibition and at the 1998 Clemson University National Print and Drawing Exhibition. In 1999, in collaboration with fellow artist Alan Sondheim, Wang exhibited a printing titled ?Rosa?s Argument? at the Woodland Pattern Center for the Book. In the Center for Book and Paper Arts? Second Biennial Exhibition of 2000, Wang presented ?Roots of High Tech, No.4,? a wide panel of photos of scientists from the 1950s and 1960s. He blanked out sections of his photos with blocks of black ink to represent a dark sense of censorship.

Most recently, Wang collaborated with artists Mike Koppa and Terry Couch to present an exhibition at the Pump House Regional Arts Center in Wisconsin. The show featured contemporary art linked together by history and the use of metal type. Wang?s installation explored the question: ?Where do people get their food?? It made comparisons between a German multinational discount grocery store and a regional specific grocery store. Using drawings, letterpress printed placards and hand-written Post-it notes, the piece was the culmination of four years of work.

As a writer, Wang has published reviews, essays and interviews in the New York Foundation for the Arts Current and the Art Journal. He also has lectured on Chinese mountain water landscapes at The Art Institute of Chicago and worked in the Book Arts Workshop at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee?s art department.

Christopher U. Light, a 1958 Carleton graduate, established the Light Lectureship in Literature, along with lectureships in art and music. Light is a freelance writer and composer, record producer and musician with a dedication to promoting the arts at Carleton.

For more information and disability accommodations, call Carleton?s art and art history department at (507) 646-4341.