Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to present a performance and series of works by Tim Youd at EXPO Chicago. The fair opens with a preview day on Thursday, April 11th, and continues through Sunday, April 14th.
Youd—a performance and studio artist—is engaged in the retyping of 100 novels over a fifteen-year period for his 100 Novels Project. This extended durational project has taken him across the globe and seen the artist partner with multiple institutions to realize his multi-day, often multi-week, performances. Since 2013 Youd has retyped 80 novels and countless plays, poems, and screenplays. Every day at EXPO Chicago, the artist will set up a typewriter at a folding table and retype Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, which imagines an America where books are outlawed and destroyed.
