In Fall semester 2023, ArtLab will support the midterm critique of video installations, multimedia performances and other time-based works created in the Art, Film, & Visual Studies department (AFVS) course Advanced Projects in Time-Based Media, taught by Associate Professor Karthik Pandian.
Karthik Pandian, ArtLab Faculty Artist in Residence in 2019, is an artist who works in films, exhibitions, and public interventions to unsettle the ground of history. He uses moving images, sculpture, and performances to render the mythologies of the present through forgotten, fragmentary and futuristic pasts. Karthik Pandian has held solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Bétonsalon, Paris, Midway Contemporary Art, and Minneapolis. His work has been featured in numerous survey exhibitions such as the inaugural L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum; Okwui Enwezor’s La Triennale: Intense Proximity at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, at Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Pandian’s recent project, Atlas Unlimited, was developed in part through an ArtLab residency and was a collaboration with choreographer Andros Zins-Browne, sculptor Zakaria Almoutlak, and many others, culminating in a presentation at 80 Washington Square East in New York City in 2019 and Four Songs without Z, a commission by Triple Canopy released in the Spring of 2021. Pandian received his B.A. in Art Semiotics and Comparative Literature from Brown University and his M.F.A. from Art Center College of Design.
Photos from Pandian’s VES class at ArtLab 2019.