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Chris Sollars

Yeniköy, October 2021

Chris Sollars subverts public space through absurd performance interventions. Since 1996, he has worked in the street to have immediate interaction with a public audience and to collect society’s detritus, trash, and artifacts for sculptures. The results are documented using photography, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed-media installations. Since starting a band in 2016, instrument construction, music, and lyrics have become an integral way to turn his discontent for man-made environmental and social catastrophes into soundtracks for art. Sollars is an Associate Professor in Sculpture, Mills College, Oakland, CA.

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