Screening of Waiting for Godot and Beyond (U.S., 2005–10) by Paul Chan plus a conversation with Paul Chan and Ted Purves.
Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
$5.50 - $9.50 (General Admission)
(510) 642-0808
Ted Purves is an artist, author of the forthcoming What We Want Is Free: Critical Exchanges in Recent Art, and chair of the Graduate Program in Fine Arts at CCA
“Chan is an unusual model for an artist, being one for whom creating objects in the studio and dynamic situations outside it are equally important,” the New York Times noted. Our two programs highlight this diversity in Chan’s artistic and activist output, focusing on his single-channel and online work. Tonight he shares documentation from the performances of Waiting for Godot he produced in Katrina-devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans, an experiment in community art, and discusses the ideas underpinning it and a number of his other projects. He also screens two video explorations of the state of the U.S., post-9/11, Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law and Poetry and Now promise now threat.
Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law and Poetry 2006, 17:30 mins, Color, Digital video, From Video Data Bank
Now promise now threat 2005, 33 mins, Color, Digital video, From Video Data Bank
Audio interview with Greta Gladney on her experience in Waiting for Godot in New Orleans 2010, 9 mins, From the artist
Bootleg documentation of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans 2007, c. 5 mins (excerpt), Digital video, Color, From the artist
Total running time: c. 90 minutes plus conversation
