Morris Series: Leadership and Innovation: The Aspen Institute

Join us for complimentary public reception before the Artist Talk. Please enter through Minna Street entrance.

This program will examine the rise of globalization in the last decade and whether China has achieved more “success” than the United States, framing the discussion in the period from 1989 till the first impacts of the 2008 economic crash took effect. Moderated by exhibition co-curator Phil Tinari, director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, with an introduction by Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator, Asian art, and senior advisor, global arts, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the panel will explore the US frameworks created in response to China’s extraordinary rise since 2008, and will seek to clarify the many myths the United States has about China. Themes will include the global rise in populism, the fragmentation of information networks, the new spaces that have been created online, dominance over the Internet and the flow of data, and responses from contemporary artists.

Panelists include Thomas Gold, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Julian Baird Gewirtz, academy scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.