The Center for Global Peace & Conflict Studies Faculty Expert Series presents

"What is There Inside in One That Makes One Know All About War"
with Simon Leung, Professor of Arts- Studio Art Department, UC Irvine
 
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
12:00–1:30 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A (SSPA), Room 2112

Artist and UCI professor Simon Leung produced a series of works between 1993-1998 that address what he calls “the residual space of the Vietnam/American War.” The term residual space, in Leung’s words, “evokes a sense of a remainder—the physically repressed that is bound to return.” In his more recent work, he has returned to a meditation of hidden dimensions of war, not so much as a locatable topic, but along the lines of the atmospheric and "the war within." In this presentation, Leung will discuss passages from two of his recent works, POE (2007/2010), in which he uses Edgar Allan Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym as a parallel for the twenty-first century American military presence in Iraq; and War After War (2011), in which he uses a short passage from Kant's Perpetual Peace to meditate on the identity of one man forged by multiple wars (Leung's frequent collaborator Warren Niesłuchowski).

Light refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP to cgpacs@uci.edu.