Chloë Bass: Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow Lecture

Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. She began her work with a focus on the individual (“The Bureau of Self-Recognition”), followed by a study of pairs (“The Book of Everyday Instruction”), and recently concluded an investigation at the scale of the immediate family (“Obligation To Others Holds Me in My Place”). She will continue to scale up gradually until she’s working at the scale of the metropolis. She is currently working on “Since feeling is first,” a series of works examining intimacy at the scale of the courtroom and the law.