Perspectives on Performance with Tyler Coburn

Date and Time

February 25, 2025
06:30PM - 08:00PM EST

Location

Farkas Hall Room 203

Perspectives on Performance welcomes writer, artist, and professor Tyler Coburn for the first artist talk of the semester! Tyler Coburn will discuss his artworks I'm that angel (2011 - ongoing), Ergonomic Futures (2016 - ongoing), and Candlestick Man (2023), touching on such topics as site-specific performance, museum bodies, and the imagining of alternate histories.

Event poster for Tyler Coburn's Perspectives on Performance talk on February 25.

About Tyler Coburn

A pencil drawing of a seated man wearing a helmet.

Tyler Coburn is a writer, artist, and professor based in New York. He has presented work at such venues as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Bergen Kunsthall; Hayward Gallery, London; Para Site, Hong Kong; and Kunstverein Munich. Coburn is the author of four books: I’m that angel (2012); Robots Building Robots (2013), published by CCA Glasgow; and Richard Roe (2019) and Solitary (2022), both published by Sternberg Press. He received a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and his writing has appeared in e-flux journalArtReviewFrieze, Mousse, and Rhizome.