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Timothy Morton: "This Is Hell, It's Not the End of the World" Organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air," Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and director of the Cool America Foundation, will give a talk to celebrate the publication of their book "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia University Press, 2024), which explores the relationship between religion and ecology in response to the climate crisis.
24/7: Work between meaning and imbalance reflects a breadth of themes in some 30 artworks tackling various aspects that both those working and those not working are confronted with in society today.
Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air The provocative work of Santiago Sierra addresses the topic of social inequities. With this multipart installation, Sierra employs art as direct evidence of environmental degradation, creating a visualization of the toxicity of contemporary urban life. Composed of 52 canvases sequentially exposed to urban pollution, the work references the increased presence of airborne contaminants both locally and worldwide.
Yuan Goang-Ming is an artist and a professor in the department of new media art at Taipei National University of the Arts. Yuan is known for video works shot with equipment made by the artist himself. Recently, he has been using his art to examine how war ideology infiltrates all aspects of daily life. His solo exhibition “Everyday War” will open this month at the Taiwan pavilion at the Venice Biennale.