Graduate Student

Madeline Eschenburg is a PhD candidate studying contemporary Chinese art. She is currently writing her dissertation on performance art in Beijing in the 1990s with a special focus on projects involving migrant workers, the marginalized subjects of modernization. In the summer of 2016 she co-organized a conference for emerging scholars and artists which took place at the Sishang Museum in Beijing titled “Overwhelming Imagination: Achieving and Undermining Contradictions.” She is currently working on adapting included papers and discussions into a formal publication. Additionally, she helped organize and lead a research trip to China for Professor Gao Minglu’s seminar about curating contemporary Chinese art. On this trip the class interviewed artists in Beijing and Shanghai and collected documentary materials for an exhibition they will curate in conjunction with the Museum Studies class at the University Art Gallery about Apartment Art.