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Baghdad in No Particular Order: Paul Chan

Oct. 14 - 7:30 am
Artist-In-Attendance
120 NE Russell Street
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About This Screening

Using as its subject the drawings of outsider artist Henry Darger, utopian philosopher Charles Fourier, the Bush administration and Baghdad street life, the recent works of new media artist Paul Chan are darkly satirical, humble and observational, and sharply critical. In January 2003, Chan traveled to Baghdad with the Iraq Peace Team, a project initiated by Voices In the Wilderness, the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated group working against the sanctions and currently the occupation of Iraq. While there he shot Baghdad In No Particular Order, a series of pedestrian video portraits depicting life on the streets of a city under siege, waiting for an inevitable war. Chan's experimental videos are radically different in tone and style. RE:THE_OPERATION uses digital animation, fictional letters and photographs to explore the sexual and philosophical dynamics of war through the members of the Bush administration. Chan will also present Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization is an animation-installation reinterpreting the drawings of outsider artist Henry Darger and the writings of utopian philosopher Charles Fourier.

Program Details

Thursday October 21 + Friday October 22
  • Baghdad in No Particular Order
    USA/Iraq, 2003, DV, color, sound, 78 min.
  • RE:THE_OPERATION
    USA, 2002, DV, color, sound, 26 min.
  • Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization
    USA, 2003, DV, color, sound, 9 min.
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