Please welcome 2018-19 Wanlass Artist in Residence Candice Lin to campus. 

27 Feb
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Add to Calendar 2018-02-27 16:30:00 2018-02-27 17:30:00 Introducing 2018-19 Wanlass Artist in Residence Candice Lin Please welcome 2018-19 Wanlass Artist in Residence Candice Lin to campus.  JSC Commons Occidental College info@kwallcompany.com America/Los_Angeles public
Location: JSC Commons
Event Date: Feb. 27, 2018
Price:
FREE

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Join us for an artist talk by Candice Lin, the 2018-2019 Wanlass Artist in Residence. Come learn about her practice within the context of the course she will teach next semester. 

ARTS290 Course Description | Interspecies Entanglements in the Queen’s Closet

Interspecies Entanglements in the Queen’s Closet is a course seeking a non-alienated relationship to ourselves, our surroundings, and the materials we use in making art. We will drink bacteria and the essence of stones and grind pigments from insects and bones. We will grow mushrooms from our urine, experience the sexuality of plants, and will transform earth into clay. In forging a new relationship with our materials, we will read and discuss notions of animacy and mattering. We will consider the history of objects, plants, and animals in relationship to colonialism, slavery, and globalization. We will learn about folk knowledge and its relationship to feminism, witchcraft, and domestic labor. This class will draw upon historical texts relating to alchemy and science, medicine, herbalism, cookbooks, and 19th-early 20th century managerial handbooks. It will have a strong reading and writing component that accompanies the hands-on experimentation with and making of materials.

About the artist:

Candice Lin received her MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and her double BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics at Brown University in 2001. Her work engages notions of gender, race and sexuality, drawing from post/de-colonialism, citizen science, anthropology, feminist and queer theory. Lin has exhibited widely including recent shows at HANGAR (Lisbon), Sculpture Center (NY), Galeria Fortes Vilaça (Sao Paulo), with recent  residencies and fellowships at Centre les Récollets (2017), Headlands Center for the Arts (2016) and the CCF Emerging Artist Fellowship (2015). Her recent solo exhibitions were at Gasworks (London), Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles) in 2016, and Betonsalon in 2017 with an upcoming exhibition at Portikus in 2018.

The Wanlass Artist in Residence Program is made possible by generous support from the Kathryn Caine Wanlass Charitable Foundation.

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