In Conversation | Olivia Erlanger and Chris Kraus

Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of the exhibition catalogue, , and a discussion between contributor Chris Kraus and artist Olivia Erlanger. 

About Olivia Erlanger

Olivia Erlanger (b. 1990, New York) works across sculpture, film, writing and performance to examine American dreams and delusions. Mining the myth of suburbia affords the artist a focus on the semiotics of the periphery, analyzing its architecture, infrastructures and ecosystems. Erlanger was awarded the 2024 International Sculpture Prize by Fondazione Henraux. Selected recent exhibitions include If Today Were Tomorrow at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (2024, solo); Humour in the Water Coolant at ICA London, UK (2024, performance); Appliance at Kunstverien Gartenhaus, Vienna (2022, solo); Nonmemory at Hauser Wirth, Los Angeles (2023), Dream Journal at Company Gallery, New York (2023); On Failure, at Soft Opening, London (2023) and Shell at Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles (2022). Erlanger is the author of Appliance (Wild Seeds, 2022) and the co-author of Garage (MIT Press, 2018) with architect Luis Ortega Govela. Her writing has appeared in publications including Tank Magazine, PIN UP, Flash Art, and Harvard Design Magazine. Her work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; KADIST, San Francisco and X Museum, Shanghai. The artist lives and works in New York.

About Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. Her novels include Torpor (2006), Summer of Hate (2012), and the forthcoming The Four Spent the Day Together. She has written extensively about contemporary visual art and artists’ projects in the US, Mexico, and Europe in her books Social Practices (2018), Video Green

(2004), and Where Art Belongs (2011). A former Guggenheim fellow, Kraus lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at Art Center College. Alongside Hedi El Kholti, she is a co-editor of the independent press Semiotext(e).

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