Hours before his “Nonprojections for New Lovers” was unveiled at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, this year’s Hugo Boss Prize winner Paul Chan spoke about his multimedia work. Chan is known for his experimentalism, and his new show focuses on images and how sensory information gives an illusion of reality. To that end, the exhibition uses projectors that seem to be powered by shoes flickering out into space. There is also a piece of nylon set in motion by fans, which act as what Chan calls “sculptural animation.” The show also features Badlands Unlimited, a publishing enterprise he founded in 2010 under the motto “We make books in an expanded field.” As a tie-in, Badlands is launching a series of erotica called “New Lovers,” which is featured in the exhibition and sold in the Guggenheim’s store. In addition, three up-and-coming writers will read from “New Lovers” on March 10 at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum. The exhibition is on view through May 13. Known for his political activism as well as his art, in 2002 Chan spent a month in Baghdad with the help of Voices in the Wilderness at a time when U.S. sanctions forbade working in Iraq. Two years
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