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Like the brain, The Conversation Machine —videos, interviews, and orchestration by Taryn Simon, produced by Fondazione Prada for the exhibition—is a self-organizing system. It responds to itself, continually constructing and assimilating its own order and disorder. In clips excerpted from over 140 hours of interviews, participants appear to ...
Simon, Taryn. “Foreword.” The Innocents, 2003. Tinari, Philip. “Taryn Simon in China.” (A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I – XVIII). Rear Views, a Star-Forming Nebula, and the Office of Foreign Propaganda, 2015. Videos. Guggenheim, Storylines: Taryn Simon, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I – XVIII, 2015.
Taryn Simon is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, text, sculpture and performance. Guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification, her practice involves extensive research into the power and structure of secrecy and the precarious nature of survival. Her works have been the subject of exhibitions at the ...
Taryn Simon. Contraband. Contraband (2010) comprises 1,075 photographs taken at both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. For one working week, Taryn Simon remained on site at JFK and continuously photographed ...
Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in New York City, Simon has had work featured in the Venice Biennale (2015).
In Taryn Simon’s performance work An Occupation of Loss (2016), professional mourners enact rituals of grief, simultaneously broadcasting their lamentations from within a sculptural installation. This video by filmmaker Boris B. Bertram documents the April 2018 performance of this work with Artangel in Islington, London.
Jun 23, 2021 · Teju Cole is a novelist, photographer, critic, and curator. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019. He is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University. Born in New York, where she lives and works, Taryn Simon received a BA in semiotics from Brown ...
