In Conversation: Gloria Sutton, Josh Kline & Alex Klein

Presented in Conjunction with Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses

Artist Josh Kline and scholar Gloria Sutton convene with Alex Klein, curator of the exhibition, Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses, to reflect on the ways that artists engage technology and the environment. As alternative models are increasingly needed to address the climate crisis, this discussion will highlight the ways that artistic practice can offer new tools and ecological imaginaries.

The conversation will be followed by a public Q&A. The museum will open be open ahead of the talk and the roof will open for seating and refreshments at 6:00p. Please arrive early to view the exhibitions on view HOST:Katarina Janeckova Walshe and Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses.

For accommodations, please reach out to [email protected] in advance.

This program is co-presented by LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab

About Gloria Sutton

Gloria Sutton is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. A research affiliate in the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sutton also serves on the Advisory Committee of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. In 2016–18, she collaborated with artist Renée Green on a series of interlinked public programs and exhibitions at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, culminating in the volume Renée Green: Pacing (D.A.P., 2021). Her scholarship has been supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation and the Getty Research Institute where she is working on her current book, Pattern Recognition: Contemporary Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

About Josh Kline

Photo: Isabel Asha Penzlien
 
Josh Kline (b. 1979, Philadelphia, USA) works in installation, video, sculpture, and photography. His work questions how emergent technologies are being used to change human life in the 21st Century. He often utilizes the technologies, practices, and forms he scrutinizes—digitization, data collection, image manipulation, 3D-printing, commercial and political advertising, productivity-enhancing substances—aiming them back at themselves. Some of his most well-known videos use early deep fake software to speculate on the meaning of truth in a time of post-truth propaganda. At its core, Kline’s prescient practice is focused on work and class, exploring how today’s most urgent social and political issues—climate change, automation, disease, and the weakening of democracy—impact the people who make up the labor force.

In 2024, Kline opened a solo exhibition, “Climate Change,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and was included in the 24th Biennale of Sydney and the 8th Yokohama Triennial. In 2023 the Whitney Museum of American Art presented the first U.S. museum survey of his work. Kline’s art has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and MoMA PS1 in New York; The Hirshhorn Museum and The National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; LAXART, Los Angeles; ICA Boston; ICA Philadelphia; MOCA Cleveland; Portland Art Museum; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; KW, Berlin; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Modern Art Oxford, UK; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Louisiana Museum, Denmark; and MCAD Manila, Philippines, among many others. Kline’s works are included in the collections of major museums including those of The Museum of Modern Art; The Guggenheim; The Whitney Museum; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.