Join Tonya Bonakdar Gallery on Thursday, December 17th at 1pm PST / 4pm EST for a live zoom conversation between the artist, Liu Shiyuan and Guggenheim Curator, Weng Xiaoyu, discussing Liu’s current solo exhibition 'For Jord' at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles. Xiaoyu Weng is The Robert H.N Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In recent years, Weng’s curatorial, research, and writing projects have been focusing on the exploration of decolonial frameworks by rediscovering cultural technics through the lens of technological thoughts, emerging from non-European traditions and are often eliminated in the process of modern technological development. In close collaborations with artists, researchers and philosophers, her work intends to create syncretic, interpenetrating and hybrid contexts and platforms to foreground these practices. In 2019. Weng initiated the multi-year research project 'Technology and Its Discontent' at the Guggenheim museum. Outside the museum, she curated the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg, Russia (2019). Weng previously served as the director and curator of Asia Programs at Kadist Art Foundation (Paris/San Francisco, 2010-2015). Her other recent projects include 'Miriam Cahn and Claudia Martínez Garay: Ten Thousand Things' at Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China (2020); 'Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman' at Times Art Center Berlin, Germany (2019); and 'Soft Crash' at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (2016). Weng is a recipient of Asian Cultural Council’s (New York) prestigious Starr Foundation Fellowship (2007-2009) and a guest editor of Heichi Magazine. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t4B0hlq9TrC_logKr0FH3w Please click the link below to view more images and details of the exhibition on our website: https://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/viewing-room/27-liu-shiyuan-for-jord/