Martin O’Brien Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, November 11th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Join us in person for a lecture by artist Martin O’Brien followed by an audience Q&A.
Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing, and video art. O’Brien has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts, critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life-shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. In 2018, the book Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien was published by Live Art Development Agency. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University of London.
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Wellness Center.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.
Image: Martin O’Brien, The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin), 2020. Photo: Holly Revell
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