Opening Reception
November 8th, 6⁠–10pm

Shanghai Seminary opens at 3262 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL. Running from November 8th to January 20th, the gallery’s inauguration presents an installment of two contemporary cultural collectives’^1,2 respective video productions revolving two historical revolutionary individuals—the Chinese feminist and reformer Wang Huiwu (1898–1993) and the American minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968).

¹Duan Xin is the Artistic Director at Jiaxing Center for News and Media (Corporate). She has produced legal and social television programs such as Lines of Law, Truth & Feeling Online, Interviewing Now, and Life Warm & Cold at Jiaxing Television Station. When those programs were discontinued, she briefly worked on variety shows before she devoted herself to historical-biographical documentaries in 2012. Her recent productions include award-winning The Last Special Force (2014) and Wang Huiwu (2019). She is currently directing a documentary on the Hong Kong wuxia novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung aka Jin Yong.

²Our Literal Speed is a text and art undertaking located in Selma, Alabama, since 2006.