Visiting Artist Series: Stanya Kahn October 21, 2008

Visiting Artist Series: Stanya Kahn

Stanya Kahn is a performance artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Her collaborative work with Harry (Harriet) Dodge, "Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out" was included in this year's Whitney Biennial. The artists have described "Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out," 2006 made during the third year of war in Iraq, as their "portrait of civilian anxiety in a time of war." Ms. Kahn plays a character they call the Valkyrie who wears a Viking helmet and carries a large foam wedge of Swiss cheese through a blighted Los Angeles landscape. Ms. Dodge is the videographer who follows her around, recording her paranoid imaginings, or memories. Their work has also been featured in California Video, The Getty Center, Los Angeles; Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward, London; Eden's Edge, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Between Two Deaths, ZKM Karlsruhe; and Defamation of Character, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens.

Date: October 21 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fees/Admission: Free and open to the public.
Location: Art Building and Museum (ART) 1.102

Official Website: http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/events/detail.cfm?calset=cfa&id=1543