Diane Severin Nguyen

Nguyen, Diane Severi

ISBN 10: 0941548864 / ISBN 13: 9780941548861

Published by Renaissance Society, 2023

Seller Inventory # V9780941548861

Synopsis:

An exhibition catalog centering on a film by artist Diane Severin Nguyen.
 
This catalog, published on the occasion of the exhibition If Revolution is a Sickness, presents the first monographic book on work by artist Diane Severin Nguyen, which considers how songs and shared histories are woven together across different times and places. The book centers on a new film by Nguyen that is set in Warsaw, Poland, and it loosely follows the character of an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to join a South Korean pop-inspired dance group. Popular within a subculture of Polish youth, the genre of K-pop is used by Nguyen as a vernacular structure as she traces a relationship between Eastern Europe and Asia that has roots in Cold War allegiances.
 
In addition to extensive imagery from the film and behind-the-scenes footage, the book also features essays by Cat Zhang on K-pop’s online communities and by Nathanäel on music, history, and geography; a pair of reflections on the film by curators Myriam Ben Salah and Sohrab Mohebbi; and a conversation between the artist and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster. Also included with the book is a flexi-disc record featuring a song with music and lyrics co-written by Nguyen. If Revolution is a Sickness, was commissioned by SculptureCenter in New York and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

About the Author: Diane Severin Nguyen is an artist who was born in Carson, California, and lives between New York and Los Angeles. Myriam Ben Salah is a Tunisian writer and director and chief curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Sohrab Mohebbi is a curator-at-large at SculptureCenter in New York.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Diane Severin Nguyen
Publisher: Renaissance Society
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New