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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"To Catch a Falling Star: Lacan Meets Warhol"
Featuring Catherine Liu

KWH, University of Pennsylvania | Thursday, February 21, 2002; 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free at Door (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy
Theorizing Series



Project Website (with 76 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11057/

Catherine Liu received her Ph.D. in French Literature from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. From 1997-1999, she was awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. She has published articles on psychoanalytic theory, issues in feminist criticism and French literature of the ancien régime, and Walter Benjamin, and Conspiracy Theory. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary art in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as having worked as a regular reviewer for Artforum, and Flash Art. In 1992, she edited a special issue of Lusitania, on issues of contemporary theory and cultural production called The Abject, America. In addition to having written and published on contemporary art and theory, she has also published a novel, Oriental Girls Desire Romance (Kaya Press, 1997). She is presently at work on a second novel, Suicide of an Assistant Professor. Her book, Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, a collection of theoretical essays around the genealogy of the machine and technologies of difference was published the University of Minnesota Press. She also translated Gérard Pommier’s Erotic Anger: A User’s Manual.