Day 2 Schedule

Saturday, April 22

Keynote Paper 2

10:30 am – 11:40 am
Regenstein Library, Room 122, University of Chicago

Muscles, Flesh, Bones, and Spirit: Can Ink Be Free?
Alexandra Munroe, Guggenheim Museum

Panel 1: Media Studies

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Regenstein Library, Room 122, University of Chicago
Moderated by Janice Katz, Art Institute of Chicago

Undulating Letters: A Close Look at Later Persian Calligraphy
Maryam Ekhtiar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Role of Media and Photography in Connecting Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Action Painting
Eugenia Bogdanova, Heidelberg University

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Painting in Anticipation
Joan Kee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Remediated Ink: The Debt of Modern and Contemporary Asian Ink Aesthetics to Non- Ink Media
Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, Irvine

Panel 2: Probing Political Dimensions

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Regenstein Library, Room 122, University of Chicago
Moderated by David Raskin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Beyond Labels: Decoding Asian Letterings in Postwar Japanese Art
Yasuko Tsuchikane, The Cooper Union

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Cold War Ink Painting in Taiwan
Aida Yuen Wong, Brandeis University

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Decolonization and Abstraction: Anwar Jalal Shemza
Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University

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Imaging Thought, Abstracting Beauty: Calligraphic Turns after Mao
Jennifer Dorothy Lee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Artist Presentations

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Logan Center for the Arts, 9th Floor Performance Penthouse, University of Chicago

Painting Performance
Enrico Isamu Ōyama
Introduced by Miwako Tezuka, PoNJA-GenKon

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On Paradise Interrupted
Jennifer Wen Ma
In conversation with Reiko Tomii, PoNJA-GenKon