Name: Discussion: Eula Biss
Start: 2022-11-05T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-11-05
Location: Film Studies Center

Discussion: Eula Biss

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago presents contemporary art exhibitions, events, and publications. “The Ren”—as we are known by many—is an independent, non-collecting museum driven by an uncompromising commitment to artists and their ideas. All exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.We offer artists the time, space, resources, and freedom that are vital for ambitious experimentation and risk-taking. Our work with artists frequently results in newly commissioned art, and their presentations in our 3,000 sq ft gallery spur further scholarly and creative reflections in our publications and public programs.Visitors to the Ren find a uniquely intimate platform for encountering artistic expressions that give form to, challenge, and complicate currents in contemporary thought. Events—including artist talks, lectures, screenings, concerts, readings, and more—offer further opportunities for discovery and discussion.

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Writer Eula Biss reflects on 'Fear of Property', the current exhibition at the Renaissance Society, alongside curator Karsten Lund.

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Discussions, Lectures, Readings, and Talks

In her most recent book, Having and Being Had, essayist Eula Biss embarks a provocative exploration of the value system behind American home ownership. Lingering over property’s contradictions, with all the comforts and discomforts involved, the book draws unshrinkingly on Biss’s own experience while bringing equal sensitivity to the larger structural patterns and histories in which property is so deeply enmeshed.For this program, Biss joins curator Karsten Lund in conversation around the exhibition Fear of Property, as they talk about artworks in the exhibition, the tangles of property as an idea and a lived experience, and some of the emotional dimensions that are often left out of the picture.Biss is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller On Immunity: An Inoculation, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review, and Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. An essay from her forthcoming collection, which continues exploring property and land ownership with a wider lens, was recently published in The New Yorker.

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