Conceived by exhibition curator Jeffrey Weiss, this dynamic series of paired talks positions On Kawara within an interdisciplinary world context. Diverse engagements with the artist's work include themes of everyday life, globalism, politics, language, travel, and pictorial abstraction.

This Duologue will feature talks by author Tom McCarthy and philosopher Simon Critchley.

Novelist Tom McCarthy gives the first ever public reading from his new novel Satin Island. Narrated by a “corporate anthropologist,” the novel questions how both the everyday and the larger logic of contemporary culture might be interpreted, framed or “rendered”—and, in so doing, questions the very possibility of fiction. McCarthy will also read passages from “Eighteen Semiconnected Thoughts on Michel de Certeau, On Kawara, Fly Fishing, and Various Other Things.” ​Philosopher Simon Critchley will both respond to McCarthy and read from his new piece of semi-fiction, Memory Theater. Recognized as a leading thinker on ethics, politics and literature, Critchley also serves as Chief Philosopher for the International Necronautical Society, a semi-fictitious network of artists, writers and activists founded by McCarthy in 1999.

$12, $8 Members. Free for Students with RSVP.

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