But Wang Peiyu - a renowned female performer who specialized in playing laosheng - old male roles on stage - is changing the situation. Image: Liu Zheng, An Old Peking Opera Actor Playing a Female Role, Beijing, 1995 (negative, this impression printed 2007), from the series My Countrymen ( Guoren, alternately translated as The Chinese), Gelatin silver print. The centuries-old Peking Opera - which combines music, dance and vocal performances - traditionally has a more loyal fan-base among seniors than the younger generations. Presented in the Robert and Joan Feitler Gallery. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, and Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art. Inspired by the Opera is curated by Wu Hung, Harrie A. Together, the works help illuminate the relationship between contemporary art and China’s cultural heritage. This exhibition at the SMART Museum of Art at the University of Chicago features: The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical “glove puppets” ( budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam a series of black-and-white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.
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