Patty Chang, a 2024–2025 Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford University, is a Los Angeles-based artist and teacher who works in video, performance, installation and narrative media. At the Cantor Arts Center’s “Patty Chang: On Mothers, Melons, Lakes, and Whales” event, attendees will learn about Chang’s works, including screenings from projects dating from 1998 to 2022.
Chang’s interests include motherhood, gender, identity, transnationalism and the ocean. “Learning Endings,” her most recent collaboration, “is a multi-part interdisciplinary research that has surfaced amidst the overlapping contexts of climate crisis, threatened ocean ecosystems, and challenges to scientific expertise,” according to Stanford.”Chang’s videos and installations pair rituals of care with collective anxieties and fears on the climate crisis,” Stanford’s website states.
Jan. 9, 6-8 p.m., Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford; free; events.stanford.edu/event/patty-chang-on-mothers-melons-lakes-and-whales.
