NEW YORK, October 28, 2020 — In a special project for the Asia Society Triennial, leading contemporary artists Xu Bing and Sun Xun created new works to respond to a rare, nineteenth-century official copy of the Declaration of Independence. For this panel, the artists discussed how their pieces encourage us to contemplate democratic values and the founding spirit of democracy in the United States with Asia Society Triennial Executive Chair Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. The conversation was moderated by Susan Beningson, Ph.D., the guest curator of We the People: Xu Bing and Sun Xun Respond to the Declaration of Independence. (1 hr., 2 min.)