Join us at the REDCAT lounge for a public conversation between artist Adelita Husni Bey and artist and professor Simon Leung on the final weekend of Husni Bey's exhibition CHIRON at The Gallery at REDCAT. Informed by Husni Bey’s works in the exhibition, Leung and Husni Bey will discuss the way performance, institutional critique and radical pedagogies intersect with labor, law and immigration in their practices. Simon Leung’s foremost concern as an artist is how “the ethical,” broadly defined, can be thought and traced. His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on “the residual space of the American/Vietnam War” a twenty-year plus collaboration with the writer and art world figure Warren Niesłuchowski; “art workers’ theater” addressing the intersection of art, labor, education, institutions, and exploitation. Adelita Husni Bey is an artist and pedagogue interested in anarco-collectivism, theater, law and urban studies. CHIRON, her current installation at REDCAT, addresses historical and contemporary forms of rule, legislation, and the policing of bodies within society through experimental forms of pedagogy and performance. She organizes workshops, produces publications, radio broadcasts, archives and exhibition work focused on using non-competitive pedagogical models through the framework of contemporary art. This talk is part of the closing reception of Adelita Husni Bey : CHIRON, on view until January 26 at the Gallery at REDCAT. GALLERY HOURS Tuesday–Saturday, 12–8 pm; Sunday, 12-6 pm or intermission Always Free About the Artists Adelita Husni Bey (Italy-Libya,1985) is an artist and pedagogue based in New York. Her practice is based on workshops in which she explores contemporary social topics with participants who collaborate critically in shaping the outcome. Practicing as both an artist and a pedagogue she activates creative processes, such as role-playing, group undertakings and workshops with students, athletes, lawyers, activists and architects. As part of her methodology, she sets up situations and experiments where her collaborators understand their own relationship to the social and economic power of our present times.Recent solo exhibitions include: Chiron, New Museum, 2019; White Paper: On Land, Law and the Imaginary, Centro de Arte dos de Mayo, Mostoles and A Wave in the Well, Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2016; Movement Break, Kadist Foundation, 2015; Playing Truant, Gasworks, 2012. She is a 2012 Whitney Independent Study Program fellow, a 2016 Graham Foundation grantee and has represented Italy at the Venice Biennale of Art, 2017 with a video rooted in anti-extractivist struggles. Simon Leung was born in Hong Kong, educated at UCLA, Columbia University, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He has participated in the Whitney Biennial (1993), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Luleå Summer Biennial (2005), the Guangzhou Triennial (2008), the Anren Biennale (2017), and the Gwangju Biennale (2018). He has presented work at the Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum, The Kitchen, Hessel Museum at Bard College, MOCA LA, Hammer Museum, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Internationally he has exhibited at the Generali Foundation (Vienna), 1A Space (Hong Kong), the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (Berlin), Sala Mendoza (Caracas), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea), and the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. Leung has received the Art Journal Award for his writing, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Clark Art Institute, the Fellows of Contemporary Art, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, City of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Fellows of Contemporary Art, and Art Matters. Co-editor of the anthology Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985, Leung has taught in the Department of Art at University of California, Irvine since 2001. +++ This exhibition is curated by Helga Christoffersen, Executive Director of Art Hub Copenhagen. Adelita Husni Bey: CHIRON and related public programming at REDCAT is organized by Carmen Amengual, Exhibitions Manager. This exhibition is funded in part with generous support from members of the REDCAT Circle and REDCAT Council. GENERAL INFORMATION For current program and exhibition information call 213-237-2800 or visit www.redcat.org. Location/Parking: REDCAT is located in downtown Los Angeles inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex with a separate entrance at the corner of West 2nd and Hope Streets. Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking structure. $9 event rate or $5 for vehicles entering after 8:00 pm on weekdays. Street Address: 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles CA 90012