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The Artist as Environmental Activist
Photographer Wang Jiuliang will speak on artists acting as environmentalists at the University of California, Berkeley.
Where
Photographer Wang Jiuliang, whose work is featured in the exhibit "Beijing Besieged: Wang Jiuliang's Urban Ecology Unhinged," will give a talk on his work capturing images of the overwhelming problems created by waste in China today, and on the role of the artist in environmental activism in China today.
This talk is in conjunction with the exhibit "Beijing Besieged: Wang Jiuliang's Urban Ecology Unhinged" on view at the IEAS Gallery March 10-June 10, 2011.
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