Environmental Reading with Perfume, Soundtrack, Tweet Mirror, and the Joy of Cooking

Please join us for a reading by Museum of Modern Art Seminar Leader in Poetics, Award winning poet, Tan Lin

Tan Lin will present his PowerPoint videos—Bibliographic Sound Track and The Ph.D Sounds—with the former accompanied by a live perfume sound track, the latter by a DJ set by Mösco. The videos explore communications platforms such as Twitter, SMS, status updates, IM chats, programming languages, video-game walk-throughs, the couplet, and the PowerPoint slide as they affect reading and genre, projected in an environment that has absorbed everything next to it in the room—from bibliographies to the smell of wet sphagnum peat moss, the perfume Wet Pavement London, Glade air freshener, and the music of New Order and Lucky Dragons. He will also read from his books, Isomnia and the Aunt (Kenning editions 2011) and Heath Course Pak (Counterpath Press, 2011) Both are ambient works composed of Google reverse searches, letters, appendices, an index to an imaginary novel, reruns, a brief history of recent performance art, a legal defense of plagiarism, an MP3 protest song, and an examination of SMS and GMS technologies as distribution networks for human sadness.

Tan Lin is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, BlipSoak01, Ambience is a Novel with a Logo, Heath (Plagiarism/Outsource) and 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010). His work has appeared in numerous journals including Conjunctions, Artforum, Cabinet, New York Times Book Review, Art in America, and Purple. His video, theatrical and LCD work have been shown at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, Yale Art Museum, Sophienholm Museum (Copenhagen), Ontological Hysterical Theatre, and as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Soundcheck Series. Lin is the recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant for 2004-2005 and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book-length study of the writings of Andy Warhol. He has taught at the University of Virginia and Cal Arts, and currently teaches creative writing at New Jersey City University.

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co-sponsors for the Tan Lin Event:
CAS, School of Art, and Vice Provost’s Office of Design, Arts, and Technology