Karen Gu
Karen Gu writes for The Believer, The Margins, and McSweeney's Quarterly. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 Jack Jones Retreat Yi Dae Up Fellow.
Sara Cwynar’s Glass Life
By Karen GuWhere her films run through a rapid series of objects and references unattached to their sources, this monograph meticulously annotates the film scripts. Mapped out and diagrammed, the scripts expand the films like an accordion folder, revealing the research archive behind the screen.
Sun Ho Lee’s
Is This a Typo?
By Karen Gu
This collection of personal stories creates a collaged family album of people living in between names, places, cultures, languages, and identities. Borrowing its title from the automated language of word processor spell checks and iMessage autocorrects, it creates a literal and material space for Asian names recognized as errors on digital interfaces.
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