EventsThe New Social Environment#214

Tishan Hsu with Martha Schwendener

Monday, January 18, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Tishan Hsu joins art critic Martha Schwendener for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Maggie Dubris.

In this Talk

Tishan Hsu

Since the mid-1980s, Tishan Hsu’s prescient artistic practice has been probing the cognitive as well as physical affects of transformative technological advances on our lives. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the interface between an organic body and technology. Since the late-1980s and 90s, Hsu has been making the majority of his paintings on canvas using a silkscreen process to fuse images from scanned pastel drawings of organic skin with appropriated biomedical images, and other parts of human, animal and technological bodies.

Martha Schwendener

Martha Schwendener is an art historian and an art critic for The New York Times. She is a visiting associate professor at New York University and a researcher in residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilém Flusser’s Essays // Artforum (Metaflux, 2017) and her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Afterimage, The Brooklyn Rail, Bookforum, Critical Inquiry, The New Yorker, October, and many other publications.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/martha-schwendener

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨