An Evening with Christopher Kulendran Thomas
24 minutes
Multidisciplinary artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas joins us for a screening of his recent video works, which typically appear within immersive installations speculating on our technologically mediated realities. The artist, who is based between Berlin and New York City, spent his early life in London after his family escaped ethnic oppression in Sri Lanka. Kulendran Thomas, who is based between Berlin and New York City, spent his early life in London after his family escaped ethnic oppression in Sri Lanka. The artist, who is of Tamil descent, often returns to this history to examine its aftermath, particularly through the Western world’s conceptualization of human rights, individual autonomy within the nation state, and socio-technological change in the region.