Diane Severin Nguyen: IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS?

Severin Nguyen, Diane

ISBN 10: 0941548864 / ISBN 13: 9780941548861

Published by Renaissance Society, 2023

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Synopsis:

An exhibition catalog centering on a film by artist Diane Severin Nguyen.
 
This catalog, published on the occasion of the exhibition If Revolution is a Sickness, presents the first monographic book on work by artist Diane Severin Nguyen, which considers how songs and shared histories are woven together across different times and places. The book centers on a new film by Nguyen that is set in Warsaw, Poland, and it loosely follows the character of an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to join a South Korean pop-inspired dance group. Popular within a subculture of Polish youth, the genre of K-pop is used by Nguyen as a vernacular structure as she traces a relationship between Eastern Europe and Asia that has roots in Cold War allegiances.
 
In addition to extensive imagery from the film and behind-the-scenes footage, the book also features essays by Cat Zhang on K-pop’s online communities and by Nathanäel on music, history, and geography; a pair of reflections on the film by curators Myriam Ben Salah and Sohrab Mohebbi; and a conversation between the artist and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster. Also included with the book is a flexi-disc record featuring a song with music and lyrics co-written by Nguyen. If Revolution is a Sickness, was commissioned by SculptureCenter in New York and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
 

About the Authors: Diane Severin Nguyen is an artist who was born in Carson, California, and lives between New York and Los Angeles. 

Myriam Ben Salah is the director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society in Chicago. She was the co-curator of Made in L.A. 2020 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.  She served as the editor-in-chief of Kaleidoscope Magazine between 2016 and 2020 and as a curator of special projects and public programs at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris between 2009 and 2016. In 2018 she was the guest curator of the tenth edition of the Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai. Ben Salah’s projects encompass exhibitions and programs organized at institutions including the Kamel Lazaar Foundation in Tunis, the ICA in London, Beirut Art Center, Kunsthall Stavanger, Kadist Foundation in Paris and San Francisco, Pejman Foundation in Tehran, and DESTE Foundation in Athens.  She is sits on the scientific committee of MUDAM (Luxembourg) and on the commissioning committee of Hartwig Art Production/Collection Fund (Amsterdam). 

Sohrab Mohebbi is a curator-at-large at SculptureCenter in New York.
 

Bibliographic Details

Title: Diane Severin Nguyen: IF REVOLUTION IS A ...
Publisher: Renaissance Society
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good