Join us for a public lecture by
Esther Choi
, entitled “Doctorin’ the Tardis,” on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, 5:30 p.m., Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium in the Art + Architecture Building, 1715 Volunteer Blvd. All are welcome.
Trained in photography and architectural history and theory, Choi’s work adopts many different formats: from photographs and installations to videos, books, and lectures. Bridging disciplines, her artwork often identifies erasures in dominant historical narratives and cultural practices, and occupies these absences as spaces within which to recuperate and re-imagine them from their margins. Her work also reflexively engages in the history of photography and commercial image production, pushing against imaging conventions or adopting new material forms.
Choi’s lecture will address her interest in how artworks dressed in unassuming and chameleonic forms can act as subversive tools for cultural inquiry.
“Doctorin’ the Tardis” was a hit song by the Timelords (a.k.a. The KLF), which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in June 1988. The song made reference to the TARDIS: a fictional time machine and spacecraft in the science-fiction television series,
Appearing as a police telephone booth, the TARDIS (
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pace) possessed certain perceptual powers that enabled it to camouflage with its surroundings, unaware to passers-by.
Like the TARDIS,
aspired to operate as a shapeshifting object, one that could travel through distribution systems to ask critical questions about history and cultural value.
Choi has a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. She holds degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Design, Concordia University, and Ryerson University. Born in Toronto, Canada, she lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
This lecture is funded by the Robert B. Church Memorial Lecture fund.
Unless otherwise noted, lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. in Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium in the Art + Architecture Building, 1715 Volunteer Blvd. All are welcome.