Paul Chan: Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization With Curator Michael Metzger: Block Museum - Northwestern University
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Paul Chan: Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization With Curator Michael Metzger

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Event Details

Date & Time:

Wed July 18, 2018

Location:

The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Open to the public

Details:

Paul Chan (b. Hong Kong, 1973) is an American artist, activist, writer, and publisher. His work reflects a strong commitment to the relation of politics and aesthetics, philosophy and popular culture, art and grassroots activism. His first major artwork Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization presents a 15-minute looped digital Flash animation inspired by as much by the history of utopian thought and the US invasion of Iraq as by Web 1.0 banner ads. In Happiness, Chan communicates a sense of living through a pivotal passage in history, but one whose competing stories and larger horizons remain obscure. Audiences joined exhibition co-curator Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, for a lunchtime tour and discussion of the exhibition.

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu