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Art & Craft lectures: Tyler Coburn: People

Moving through a set of index cards—each bearing the name of a play he had performed in—Gray told stories related to those productions, often dwelling on the cast and events unfolding beyond the stage. As the order of the index cards was random, no two performances were the same.

In Coburn’s variation, each card will bear the name of a person: an academic he interviewed for a project, an amorous attendee to one of his monologues, his collaborator Susan Bennett (the original voice actress of Siri), a data center employee who insulted him before his performance at the facility, and so on. A testament to Coburn's interest in the monologue as an expansive and relational form—and in anticipation of Some Monologues, his forthcoming book with Wendy's Subway—this humorous, lighthearted piece will bring focus to Coburn's many collaborators and the projects they helped create.

Tyler Coburn is an artist, writer, and professor based in New York. He received a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and his writing has appeared in ArtReview, BOMB, C Magazine, Dis, e-flux journal, frieze, LEAP, Metropolis M, Mousse, and Rhizome. Coburn is the author of four books: I’m that angel (self-published, 2012), Robots Building Robots (CCA Glasgow, 2013), Richard Roe (Sternberg, 2019), and Solitary (Sternberg and Art Sonje Center, 2022). He has presented artwork at such venues as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Bergen Kunsthall; Hayward Gallery, London; Para Site, Hong Kong; and Kunstverein Munich.

The Art and Craft lectures, hosted by the Art and Craft Department at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, is an annual lecture series devoted to art education, research, theory, and politics. The program, curated by Sara R. Yazdani and Susanne M. Winterling, nurtures an interdisciplinary exchange of practice and theory.

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