Moma Talks: Conversations

December 07, 2009, 6:00 PM Almost every year, MoMA’s Library Council publishes a specially printed artist’s book to explore the genre and to benefit the Library and Museum Archives. This year, as an alternative form of artist’s book, the Council has cast a hand-printed and mounted scroll by artist Yun-Fei Ji. The scroll addresses the damaging impact of China’s Three Gorges Dam, the construction of which has had devastating effects on the Chinese landscape and displaced over one million people living in that area near the Yangtze River. On the occasion of the publication, MoMA presents this program exploring the artistic, social, and cultural meanings of and responses to this site. Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, addresses the history of both the river and the scroll form, and how reading and visualization may be understood as an extended spatial experience. Wu Hung, Professor, Department of Art History, and Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Ch