Lisa Tan
How do we value the spaces in which our most
private activities happen? Lisa Tan’s project for
osloBIENNALEN involves refurbishing the old
and chilly toilets at Myntgata 2, where about
fifty artists have their studios and where the
biennial has its headquarter.
Biography
LISA TAN (1973, USA) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden, where she is an artist and Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design. Her practice explores the relationship between image and language in the formation of individual subjectivity. Using video, photography, text, and other gestures, her work is shaped by aspects of mundane life, friendship, and loss; and also through her intense research into different fields of study such as literary theory and ontology.
Essay
Josh Shaddock lives and works in New York, USA. He is an artist and writer, and a friend and colleague of Lisa Tan.
In this essay on Tan’s project for osloBIENNALEN he draws on his own everyday life.
Read the essay here:
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