{"id":976,"date":"2004-03-18T14:34:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T20:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=976"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:24:49","slug":"national-philistine-videos-by-paul-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/03\/18\/national-philistine-videos-by-paul-chan\/","title":{"rendered":"National Philistine: Videos by Paul Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, March 18, 2004, 8pm<\/strong> | <em>Paul Chan in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A wry political sensibility informs the work of Paul Chan, a New York-based video and installation artist who returns to Chicago to present three recent works. These include an astonishing new piece shot in Iraq, made while Chan was a member of the Chicago-based, Nobel Peace Prize-nominated group Voices in the Wilderness. A troubled outsider artist joins forces with a socialist philosopher to create an unlikely utopia in <\/span>Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization \u2013 After Harvey Darger and Charles Fourier<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2000-2003). In its parade of mustachioed men, <\/span>Now Let Us Praise American Leftists <span style=\"font-style:normal\">(2000) uses wanted-poster computer technology to foreground the exclusionary nature of American leftist politics. The fruits of a month-long study trip to Iraq immediately before the 2003 US invasion, <\/span>BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER \u2013PART I<span style=\"font-style:normal\"> (2004) is an ambient video essay of life in that city on the eve of war (Video Data Bank).<\/span><\/em> 2000\u20142004, Paul Chan, USA, ca. 74 min, video.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 18, 2004, 8pm | Paul Chan in person! A wry political sensibility informs the work of Paul Chan, a New York-based video and installation artist who returns to Chicago to present three recent works. These include an astonishing new piece shot in Iraq, made while Chan was a member of the Chicago-based, Nobel [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/03\/18\/national-philistine-videos-by-paul-chan\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from National Philistine: Videos by Paul Chan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[203,441,476,516,615,623],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","tag-essay-film","tag-new-media","tag-political","tag-saic-alumni","tag-usa","tag-video-data-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}