Diane Severin Nguyen

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS?

Diane Severin Nguyen, Myriam Ben Salah, Sohrab Mohebbi , Cat Zhang

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Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
20 January 2023

Dance & Performing arts

An exhibition catalog centering on a film by artist Diane Severin Nguyen.

This catalog, published on the occasion of the exhibition If Revolution is a Sickness, presents the first monographic book on work by artist Diane Severin Nguyen, which considers how songs and shared histories are woven together across different times and places. The book centers on a new film by Nguyen that is set in Warsaw, Poland, and it loosely follows the character of an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to join a South Korean pop-inspired dance group. Popular within a subculture of Polish youth, the genre of K-pop is used by Nguyen as a vernacular structure as she traces a relationship between Eastern Europe and Asia that has roots in Cold War allegiances.

In addition to extensive imagery from the film and behind-the-scenes footage, the book also features essays by Cat Zhang on K-pop's online communities and by Nathanäel on music, history, and geography; a pair of reflections on the film by curators Myriam Ben Salah and Sohrab Mohebbi; and a conversation between the artist and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster. Also included with the book is a flexi-disc record featuring a song with music and lyrics co-written by Nguyen. If Revolution is a Sickness, was commissioned by SculptureCenter in New York and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

By: Diane Severin Nguyen
Memoir by: Cat Zhang
Edited by: Myriam Ben Salah, Sohrab Mohebbi
Imprint: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.334kg
ISBN: 9780941548861
ISBN 10: 0941548864
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 20 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diane Severin Nguyen is an artist who was born in Carson, California, and lives between New York and Los Angeles. Myriam Ben Salah is a Tunisian writer and director and chief curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Sohrab Mohebbi is a curator-at-large at SculptureCenter in New York.

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Diane Severin Nguyen

IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS?