Recording of the conversation: https://vimeo.com/525213877

Please join kurimanzutto for an in-conversation between gallery artists, Jimmie Durham & Haegue Yang. The talk is organized especially on the occasion of Through Eyes and Mouth: Jimmie Durham as Seen by Haegue Yang, kurimanzutto’s Art Basel: Pioneers Online Viewing Room.

This in-conversation will take place on Wednesday 24th March, 2021, at:

8:00am - CST (Mexico)
10:00am - ET (New York)
3:00pm - CET (Europe)
10:00pm - UTC (Hong Kong)

Through Eyes and Mouth: Jimmie Durham as Seen by Haegue Yang, Haegue Yang selects a number of works by the artist, poet, author, essayist and political activist, Jimmie Durham. For both artists, their artistic research looks to what happens away from language and creating when actively thinking outside dominant ideologies of knowledge production.

On Jimmie Durham, Haegue Yang says:

"I envy the hard way Jimmie Durham swims freely around controversies and render them with political elegance. Jimmie has achieved to be so much yet at the same time to be one: himself. Maybe that makes him more of a cosmopolitan than an ordinary diaspora.”

Through this act of looking at an artist’s practice from the perspective of another, kurimanzutto’s OVR presents a politics of looking and a poetics of being. Haegue Yang's selection examines what we see and how we construct meaning out of the signs and symbols of both language and history within the orbit of Jimmie Durham.

To attend the event, please follow this Zoom link.