NYAB Event - Paul Chan "Tin Drum Trilogy followed by a Q&A with the artist"

Paul Chan "Tin Drum Trilogy followed by a Q&A with the artist"

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

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The New Museum presents the New York premiere of Paul Chan’s Tin Drum Trilogy: RE:THE_OPERATION (2002), BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (2003), and NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT (2005), followed by a Q&A with the artist. A departure from Chan’s exhibition, “The 7 Lights” on the third floor of the New Museum, these video works delve into the real or projected perspectives of Chan’s would-be enemies. According to the artist:“I realized after finishing the last single-channel video (NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT) that what I've done isn't another piece but the third installment of a three-part series. Each video in the series was made utilizing different experimental traditions, but with one consistent theme: that to love your enemy is to know your enemy. I essentially sleep with the enemy and the time spent creating these sleep-works becomes the space to both escape from and engage with what it means to live through an infinite war. The Bush administration (in RE:THE_OPERATION ), Iraqis (in BAGHDAD...), and the religious right living in red-state America (in NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT) are all perceived, rightly or wrongly, as enemies. The task of all three videos have been to make the friend/enemy distinction more difficult while at the same time giving a time-based critique of the political tragedy/farce that is our first five years of the twenty-first century.”