This exhibit, which is cosponsored by the UCLA Department of History and Center for Southeast Asian Studies, will feature the creative projects of students currently enrolled in the Winter 2015 course, HIST 176A: Early Southeast Asian History. It marks the culmination of the students' collaborations and individual work this quarter on objects designed to emulate the styles of pottery, temple carvings, religious iconography, and other forms of material culture found throughout Southeast Asia in the period before c. 1800. Reflecting a time when Southeast Asian peoples selectively embraced and interpreted outside cultural influences to reinforce existing beliefs and traditions and to establish new world views, these objects will showcase the diversity of the cultural heritage found in the "lands below the winds."
Following a brief opening ceremony, the students will be available to discuss the inspiration behind their work, the historical context of their pieces, and the processes by which they employed contemporary methods to re-imagine historical objects. Refreshments will be served.
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The exhibit itself will remain in the Powell Library Rotunda from March 5 - April 3, 2015.
Cost : Free and open to the public.