Unche Studio

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Challenges of ImaginationIn his 2011 lecture “The Challenges of Immigration: A Radical Solution,” Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, proposes that US immigrants pay an entrance fee of around $50,000. Becker argues this would be a win-win situation. We have been seeking O-1 (artist) visas to stay and work in United States and two of us used to live in the basement of Gary Becker’s house in Hyde Park, Chicago.

In direct response to Gary Becker’s lecture, this piece is titled The Challenges of Imagination. Through various stories and documents, the work will cast a sharp, though always playful, satiric eye on the world and its assumptions and institutions.

Challenges of Imagination exists both as a lecture-performance and a video-installation. The work has been performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Northwestern University in Evanston and it has been displayed as a video-installation at the HydePark Art Center and Hunter East Harlem Gallery.
Plywood, Full-HD Video, Speaker
17:41
2017


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