The Museum of Contemporary Art

Join us for MOCA Artist Film series screening of Simon Leung’s War After War, 2011, 90 min. Thursday, June 27, 2024, 6pm @moca Grand Ave. 🎟️ FREE with RSVP. In War After War, 2011, artist Simon Leung (Hong Kong, 1964) offers a portrait of the mythical writer, translator, and art world figure Warren Niesłuchowski. The ninety-minute work unravels Niesłuchowski’s life in the first decade of the 21st century as a nomad without a home who depended on others to provide him with a bed for the night, week, month, or longer, while he traveled through North America and Europe as a perpetual guest. The work explores notions of hospitality, mortality, vulnerability, resistance, and living itself as an ethico-aesthetic proposition in the residual space of war. Leung’s video is also a rumination on friendship and the art world. Leung will be present for a post-screening conversation with writer and curator Michael Ned Holte, Associate Dean, School of Art at CalArts. MOCA Artist Film Series is presented by The Edward F. Limato Foundation. 📷 Stills from War After War, 2011. Image courtesy of the artist. #simonleung #moca