Artist Talk: Paul Chan
Artist Talk Part of The Quick and the Dead
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  Thursday, September 17, 2009
  7:00 pm
 Cinema
  Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
Paul Chan's artistic practice takes many forms: video, drawing, collage, installation and collaborative site-specific projects. Engaging such fundamental topics as war, religion, philosophy, and desire, these works include the recent large-scale production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in two neighborhoods of New Orleans, and the ambitious The 7 Lights, a series of large-scale digital projections and drawings that compose an hallucinated version of the seven days of creation. The last work from this series is currently on view in The Quick and the Dead.

In 2002, Chan was a part of the American aid group Voices in the Wilderness that broke U.S. sanctions and federal law by working in Baghdad before the U.S. invasion and occupation. In
2004 he garnered police attention for The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention, a free map distributed throughout New York to help protesters to get in or out of the way of the RNC.

Join Chan for a talk on his work, and a conversation about art and whatever else comes to mind.

Chan’s video essay set in Baghdad is screening in the Lecture Room.

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Related Links
Paul Chans Top 5
http://blogs.walkerart.org/teens/2009/09/18/paul-chans-top-5/
Walker blogs, Teen Programs and WACTAC: Around the Walker
WACTAC with Paul Chan
http://blogs.walkerart.org/teens/2009/09/23/wactac-with-paul-chan/
Walker blogs, Teen Programs and WACTAC: Uncategorized
Paul Chan Research
http://blogs.walkerart.org/teens/2009/09/04/paul-chan-research/
Walker blogs, Teen Programs and WACTAC: Around the Walker
Film/Discussion: Inside Iraq, Thursday, October 22, 2009
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5232
Following a screening of Paul Chan’s hour-long Baghdad in No Particular Order, Utne Reader senior editor Jeff Severns Guntzel discusses his impressions of the video based on his own experiences in Iraq. Chan’s work is on view this fall in the Lecture Room.