Chan, Paul

Autor: Chan, Paul
Rok: 1973-
Oblast působnosti: umělci, spisovatelé, nakladatelé a vydavatelé, političtí aktivisté

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Americký multimediální umělec narozený v Hongkongu, spisovatel, vydavatel, politický aktivista, zakladatel vydavatelství Badlands Unlimited (2010).
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Paul Chan (born 1973) is an American artist, writer and publisher born in Hong Kong in 1973. His single channel videos, projections, animations and multimedia projects are influenced by outsider artists, playwrights, and philosophers such as Henry Darger, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, and Marquis de Sade. Paul Chan’s work concerns topics including but not limited to; geopolitics, globalization, and their responding political climates, war documentation, violence, deviance, and pornography, as well as language and new media.Chan has exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, documenta, the Serpentine Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum, and other institutions. Chan has also engaged in a variety of publishing projects, and, in 2010, founded the art and ebook publishing company Badlands Unlimited, based in New York. Chan’s essays and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, October, Tate etc., Parkett, Texte Zur Kunst, Bomb, and other magazines and journals.