Lan Tuazon
Lan Tuazon’s practice addresses the order of things as they relate to built and imagined environments. Her work is about circulation and how power structures are revealed in the distribution of all forms of property and capital. She is interested in social exchanges that can produce individual agency through social reciprocity, obligating one person to another. One such methodology, graffiti, exists on the fringe of society constantly aiming for accessible grounds for representation. Tuazon looks for opportunities to temporarily claim a space, whether as locations for happenings or as abandoned spaces ready for reoccupation and recuperation. Using printed matter, video and photography the artist represents repressed content and circulates it for public review.
Tuazon’s work also explores the urban landscape and how political history is written (or erased) in urban planning. According to the historian Eric Hobsbawm, urban planning determines the feasibility of protest and civic unrest to develop into political revolutions. American cities are considered defensible cities, cities designed to suppress and prevent even the beginnings of demonstrations, riots and insurrections. Collectively and as individuals, we have lost the public grounds of mobilization.
Tuazon has exhibited internationally at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Bucharest Biennale 4, Romania, the WKV Kunstverein, …
Lan Tuazon’s practice addresses the order of things as they relate to built and imagined environments. Her work is about circulation and how power structures are revealed in the distribution of all forms of property and capital. She is interested in social exchanges that can produce individual agency through social reciprocity, obligating one person to another. One such methodology, graffiti, exists on the fringe of society constantly aiming for accessible grounds for representation. Tuazon looks for opportunities to temporarily claim a space, whether as locations for happenings or as abandoned spaces ready for reoccupation and recuperation. Using printed matter, video and photography the artist represents repressed content and circulates it for public review.
Tuazon’s work also explores the urban landscape and how political history is written (or erased) in urban planning. According to the historian Eric Hobsbawm, urban planning determines the feasibility of protest and civic unrest to develop into political revolutions. American cities are considered defensible cities, cities designed to suppress and prevent even the beginnings of demonstrations, riots and insurrections. Collectively and as individuals, we have lost the public grounds of mobilization.
Tuazon has exhibited internationally at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Bucharest Biennale 4, Romania, the WKV Kunstverein, Germany, Floating IP, Manchester, England and The Lowry Museum, London, and Storefront for Art & Architecture, ISE Cultural Foundation, Artist Space, Canada Gallery, Sculpture Center, Apex Art, all in New York. Tuazon is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the School of Art Institute.
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