Paul Chan's production of Waiting for Godot.
"Chan's artistic involvement consisted largely of spending many months teaching as a volunteer in a local college, building close relationships with local community groups and grass roots organizations. . . (Anton Vidokle describes Paul Chan's project in October 130 p 42)
". . . contemporary practices that are not concerned with the production of masterpeices bu with reconciling art with other processes of life. . . " (Vidokle p43)
This kind of art does not necessarily fit neatly inside institutions.
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.) Let us do
something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed.
Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally
well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still
ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment o f time, all mankind is us,
whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us
represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!
What do you say?
—Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
A more recent work by Paul Chan is the 7 lights
http://www.newmuseum.org/paulchan/
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