Stone and Sound: South Shore Conservatory Jazz and a Conversation with Lisa Tang Liu and Ken Liu

5-6pm Begin the evening with a performance by the student jazz ensemble of South Shore Conservatory.

6-7pm Ken opens with a short talk, “Strange Meaning: What Can Scholar’s Rocks Tell Us About the Future of Art?”, tracing the history of scholar’s rock aesthetics and offering his speculation on where the future of human art may lie in the age of generative AI. Lisa then shares the inspiration and process behind her own Fortune Cookie Scrolls, featured in the exhibition Interpreting the Natural: Contemporary Visions of Scholars Rocks, before the two come together in conversation about Daoism, scholar’s rocks, and how these ideas surface in Lisa’s exhibited work.