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Wednesday, October 16 at 7pm An Evening with Knut Åsdam Introduced by Kaja Silverman, followed by a discussion between Åsdam and Homay King. Knut Åsdam is one of the most internationally recognized Norwegian artists today, having represented his country at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Åsdam makes films, installations, and photographs that question our degree of conditioning through urban space and incite us to live in a more conscious manner. In his photographs, his principal subject is architecture that he considers to ?H] H8?'???[??[?? H ???X[ ? H \???[ ? H \?[??XX?[?? H X?X??'H?X?[?^X?][??[?? YN??]H[?\????
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