Artist Talk: Nestor Topchy in Conversation with Timothy Morton

Artist Nestor Topchy joins Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, for a talk in conjunction with the exhibition "The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy," which features 124 of the artist’s portraits.
About Timothy Morton:
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He has collaborated with Björk, Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in "Living in the Future’s Past," a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. He is the author of the libretto for the opera "Time Time Time" by Jennifer Walshe. He is the author of "Being Ecological" (Penguin, 2018), "Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People" (Verso, 2017), "Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence" (Columbia, 2016), "Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism" (Chicago, 2015), "Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World" (Minnesota, 2013), "Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality" (Open Humanities, 2013), "The Ecological Thought" (Harvard, 2010), "Ecology without Nature" (Harvard, 2007), eight other books, and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.
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