Artists Young Joon Kwak and Gordon Hall will collaborate on a public discussion in an experimental format, stemming from the artists' shared interest in proposing alternative ways of being bodies in relation to objects with open-ended functionality. Presented by MFA Fine Arts.

Young Joon Kwak is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist, founder of the performance collaborative Mutant Salon and lead performer in the band Xina Xurner. Kwak has performed and exhibited at venues internationally, including the Hammer Museum, the Broad, REDCAT, ONE National LGBT Archives, Commonwealth and Council, and Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Regina Rex and Smack Mellon (New York City), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), MCA Denver and Pavillon Vendôme Centre d’Art Contemporain (Clichy, France).

Gordon Hall is an artist based in New York who has exhibited and performed at SculptureCenter, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Movement Research, EMPAC, Art in General, Temple Contemporary, Foxy Production, the Hessel Museum at Bard College, White Columns and Chapter NY, among other venues. Hall’s writing and interviews have been featured in a variety of publications, including V, Randy, Bomb, Title, the Walker Art Center's Artist Op-Ed series, What About Power? Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture (SculptureCenter, 2015), Documents of Contemporary Art: Queer (Whitechapel and MIT Press, 2016), and Theorizing Visual Studies (Routledge, 2012).

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Young Joon Kwak and Gordon Hall

Room 101C