Perspectives on Performance with Tyler Coburn
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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.
About Tyler Coburn
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 journal, ArtReview, Frieze, Mousse, and Rhizome.