For this live program, Diane Severin Nguyen joins scholar Anna Kornbluh, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, for a conversation that delves into Nguyen’s exhibition IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS in relation to Kornbluh’s book The Order of Forms, an important influence for the artist. In their work as an artist and a scholar of literature, film, and critical theory, respectively, each of them has explored aspects of realism, form, and abstraction, ever attentive to a larger web of social relations and political possibilities.

Image Caption: Diane Severin Nguyen. Still from “IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS,” 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York.