Media Poetries: Luis Camnitzer and Tan Lin

University of Leeds
February 9, 2022

Luis Camnitzer and poet Tan Lin discuss the binds between form, content and context that shape the impact of public language.

The institution's press release follows: 

Luis Camnitzer and Tan Lin discuss the binds between form, content and context that shape the impact of public language. Luis Camnitzer is an artist and writer. His work ranges from gallery installations to cultural criticism. His work explores systems of power, ideologies of education, and the public value of art through an overtly political model of Conceptualism. Tan Lin is a poet and artist. His work ranges from fiction writing to video. His work explores the hybridity of cultural experiences through personal, material and technical processes of recall.

This in the final event in a four-part series that brings together two acclaimed practitioners from different backgrounds for artistic ‘blind dates’, where they discuss how their work combines a care for materiality with a desire to stretch language. Chaired by Nick Thurston (Associate Professor in Fine Art, University of Leeds), the four events establish a series of new conversations.

Our guests come from across four generations and five continents. They work with many languages and almost as many disciplines, including installation art, dance, performance poetry, ceramics, textiles and digital literature. All events will feature solo presentations and live conversations held online

This live discussion will take place on Zoom.

Find out more and book your free place here.