#  Perspectives on Performance with Tyler Coburn 

 



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 **February 25, 2025** 

 06:30PM - 08:00PM EST 

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 **Farkas Hall Room 203**  

 [12 Holyoke St  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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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.

   ![Event poster for Tyler Coburn's Perspectives on Performance talk on February 25.](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-02/TC%20PoP%20Instagram%20-%20Final%20Resized%20Smaller_0.png?itok=HTw8B0gt) 

 

**About Tyler Coburn**

   ![A pencil drawing of a seated man wearing a helmet.](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-02/tylercoburn.png?itok=lt-aFXCU) 

 

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*.



 

 



 

 

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