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Ken Lum: the short interview.(Interview)

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online - approximately 1254 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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I wanted to speak with Ken Lum for this inaugural Short Interview in C Magazine mainly because of a slide talk he did at NSCAD in fall 2002. I admired the works he presented, particularly his furniture pieces. The Q & A that followed was a different story. A couple of male teachers delivered...

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...long, aggressive statements towards Lum, barely bothering to pose them as questions. Lum responded in kind, scornfully taunting his audience: "You call this a Q & A? I thought NSCAD was tough! At Goldsmiths, where I just came from, they kept me on my toes for over an hour. This is pathetic. NSCAD. Ha!" And he left.

It was all very boys' club, very soap opera and very confusing. Despite the sensitive ambiguities of Lum's work, which I have reflected on seriously since, his is also an oeuvre of the impervious and sealed up, not unlike the gruff persona he presented that day.

I have long wondered what it would be like to ask Lum some personal questions. Not only would it be more "estrogenesque"; on some level, I think, I longed to...

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