Haegue Yang—Paper Control

This booklet was generated from an artist-in-residence project with Haegue Yang at the Walker Art Center. The residency began as a conversation on the nature of artist residencies between Yang and then Walker curator Doryun Chong. It evolved into an experiment in which the artist aimed to “domesticize the institution” as an apprentice in the museum. An exploration of the sometimes antagonistic relationship between artists/artworks and institutions, Yang’s project mobilized the Walker to bring together a group of “expert” participants in a skill share and knowledge exchange revolving around the artist’s interests and themes in her work. It concluded with a series of public events centered on the late French writer Marguerite Duras and a theatrical workshop in which Yang staged a production of Duras’ novella "The Malady of Death." This booklet is designed to be nested within a gallery guide for the exhibition "Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider," previously on view at the Walker.