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ESL

ESL by Craig Jun Li is on view in the Project Space and Mezzanine Gallery from March 11 to May 1, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the galleries will be open limited hours from 12-5pm Thursday through Saturday or by appointment. Visitors inside the building will be required to wear masks and practice social distancing, and the number of visitors will be limited according to current public health guidelines. Exhibition admission is free.

Craig Jun Li ESL

surplus excess discarded spirits bodies not to be mourned yet there is diligence in caring configuration constitution take refuge in openings new feelings transform reality discomfort resistance mistaken as silence absent from speech an opaque language anonymous desire to disappear in each other without forgetting apocalypses all together arrival at destruction no hesitance to behold heat light on the site of old treasures liquid nameless omnipresent

Craig Jun Li

Craig (Jun) Li is a multidisciplinary artist from China and is currently based in Madison, Wisconsin. Their practice examines dialectics and phenomenology of various positionalities to histories. They are interested in using an intersectional and ethnographic approach to study unconventional modes of meaning making.

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

Our galleries are open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday noon to 5pm, and other programs take place throughout the week. Please check the events calendar and education section for details.

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