Video Artist to Lecture at UC Irvine on Tuesday

Video artist Shu Lea Cheang will give a free lecture and will show excerpts from her work Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Nixon Studio at UC Irvine’s Fine Arts Village. Cheang’s lecture, part of a one-day residency in the UCI studio art department, is being offered in conjunction with the UCI Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture series.

Cheang, from New York, deals in her work with prevailing attitudes toward race and gender, sexual politics and censorship. Her work includes “ . . . Will Be Televised,” a compilation of five one-hour videos documenting social and political change in Asia, which premiered at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions during the 1990 Los Angeles Arts Festival, and “Color Schemes,” shown two years ago at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. This multimedia installation with Asian-American, black, Latino and American Indian actors investigates American attitudes toward race.

For information on Tuesday’s lecture, call Kelly Adams in the studio art department at (714) 856-4917).