"To Say or Not to Say"
February 10, 2010 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre | ACAD
Free Public Lecture
Ken Lum is an internationally renowned artist and scholar whose practice addresses issues of identity and image production. He has exhibited widely, including Documenta 11 (2002), the Istanbul Biennial (2007), the Gwangju Biennale (2008), the São Paolo Biennial (1998), and Shanghai Biennale (2000). Lum’s interdisciplinary practice includes works of sculpture, photography, design, and public art. He has works in major public collections worldwide and is regarded as a leading figure in contemporary art.
From 2000 to 2006 Ken Lum was head of the graduate program in studio art at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he taught from 1990 until 2006. Lum joined the faculty of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, in 2005 and worked there until 2007. He has been an invited professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and the China Art Academy, Hangzhou.
Ken Lum
Lum is co-founder and founding editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He has published extensively, and a book of Lum's writings, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, is forthcoming from Walter Koenig Books. In addition he recently completed an artists' book project with philosopher Hubert Damisch that was launched with Three Star Press, Paris. Lum was Project Manager for Okwui Enwezor's The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945 – 1994 (2001). He was also co-curator of the 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005), and Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945 (2005). He is currently lead faculty for the Banff Centre’s Master Class: The Object of Art and the Art as Object.
Ken Lum’s free public lecture will include an overview of his artistic practice and the presentation of a paper “To Say or Not to Say,” discussing the relationship between art and the Freudian/Lacanian notion of the Real.
This visit to ACAD has been organized by the Sculpture Program, with support from Drawing, Media Arts and Digital Technology, and Photography.
