Artist, writer, and publisher Paul Chan will give a lecture entitled “Content: a Postmortem,” on Monday, December 1st. The lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. and will take place in Taylor Hall, Room 102.

Paul Chan is an artist, writer, and publisher who lives in New York. Breathers, a travelling survey exhibition of his recent practice organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, was mounted in 2022–2024. His work has been featured in many international group exhibitions, such as Documenta 13, the 53rd Venice Biennale, and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. In 2007, Chan collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the New York based public art group Creative Time to produce a site-specific outdoor presentation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina. Chan founded Badlands Unlimited (2010–2018), a press devoted to publishing artist writings and writings about art in paper and digital forms. Badlands authors include Marcel Duchamp, Yvonne Rainer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Craig Owens, Carroll Dunham, Lynne Tillman, Martine Syms, Dread Scott, Aruna D’Souza, among many others. Chan’s writings have appeared in Frieze, October, Texte Zur Kunst, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Evergreen Review, 4 Columns, and other magazines and journals. He was also named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2022.

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