Public Lecture│The Spectacle of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
Public Lecture│The Spectacle of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
22
May
This public lecture will examine the designs of national pavilions from the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. These pavilions can be considered as self-portraits of the countries participating at the World Expo.
Public Lecture
The Spectacle of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
By Prof. Paul Lee
Moderated by Prof. José Simões
Thursday, 22 May 2014, 6:30 p.m.
Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph
Organised by USJ Faculty of Creative Industries
Sponsored by Macao Foundation
Free Admission ‧ All are welcome
Refreshments will be offered after the talk
ABOUT THE TALK
This public lecture will examine the designs of national pavilions from the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. These pavilions can be considered as self-portraits of the countries participating at the World Expo. The architectural design of the pavilions becomes very important as each country tries to showcase its self-defined national identity and clamors for the attention of the millions of visitors. In their attempts to dazzle the public many of the pavilions become spectacles of contemporary design and technology. But at the same time these over-produced designs also turn into examples of excessive consumption and banality.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Lee received his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills in Michigan, an A.B. from Hamilton College in New York and an International Baccalaureate (IB) from the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales. His video and photography has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, San Antonio and Vladivostok, Russia. In 2004 Paul Lee’s photographs were featured in the exhibition, “The Art of Tennessee” at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville.
