The Low-Res Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series resource guides contain upcoming speakers' biographies, articles, video and audio content, related publications in the Flaxman Library, and additional online resources. These guides may be used in preparation for the public lecture, studio visits, and post-lecture discussion.
Patty Chang + David Kelley: Monday, July 7, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT
SAIC Ballroom, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Patty Chang is a Los Angeles based artist and educator who uses performance, video, installation, and narrative forms when considering identity, gender, transnationalism, colonial legacies, the environment, large-scale infrastructural projects, and impacted subjectivities.
David Kelley is an artist working with photography, video, and installation, whose recent projects draw attention to the effects of global capitalism, resource extraction, and shifting physical and political landscapes. Their lecture will focus on individual and collaborative projects.
China’s Buried Past and Submerged Future: Patty Chang and David Kelley’s ‘Flotsam Jetsam’
John Yau I Hyperallergic I July 6, 2014
The Imaginary Landscape: A Conversation with Patty Chang and David Kelley*
Marcus Civin I afterimage vol. 42 (3) I pp. 12-15 | November 2014
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Patty Chang: the Wandering Lake
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Integrating video projection, photography, sculpture, publication and performance into one expansive body of work, Los Angeles-based Patty Chang (born 1972) examines the complex way stories develop through geography, history, cultural mythology, fiction and personal experience. Accompanying her exhibition of the multiyear project A Wandering Lake at the Queens Museum that was in part inspired by turn-of-the-century colonial explorer Sven Hedin's book Wandering Lake (1938)--which tells the story of a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert--this book alludes to the loss of Chang's father, as well as her pregnancy and the birth of her son. The artist's book, combining Chang's writings and travel photographs with historic and theoretical text excerpts as well as photographs of her sculptures and watercolors, is a personal, associative, narrative meditation on mourning, caregiving and landscape.
Beta Space: Patty Chang and David Kelley [Exhibition information page]
San José Museum of Art | November 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025
Flotsam Jetsam [Exhibition information page]
MoMA | Mar 15 - Sep 28, 2014
Overburden: Patty Chang and David Kelley [Screening information page]
e-flux | October 14, 2023