Caitlyn Min-ji Au, Winter Garden (south), 2026. Image courtesy of the artist
Toby Wu in conversation with Caitlyn Min-ji Au
Saturday, March 14th, 1pm EST
ZOOM LINK
The Broodthaers Society of America will host a conversation between Caitlyn Min-ji Au and media scholar Toby Wu on Saturday, March 14th at 1pm. The conversation will take place over zoom, feel free to bookmark the event via the link above. Among other things, Au and Wu will discuss asynchronicity, Atlas the turtle, Marcel Broodthaers' poetry, and pandas. We look forward to seeing you online.
The talk is in conjunction with Winter Garden, Au's site-specific installation at the Broodthaers Society that runs through April 5. Winter Garden is inspired, in part, by Au's knowledge of Broodthaers' Un Jardin d'Hiver, first installed at the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, in 1974 and reimagined posthumously at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977.
Au's Winter Garden consists of two asymmetrical environments designed for Atlas, the Broodthaers Society's resident turtle. On a site visit to the Broodthaers Society last summer, Au observed Atlas outdoors for long stretches of time at different angles of sunlight. Now that Atlas has moved inside for the winter—and thanks to Au—the turtle has full reign of the Broodthaers Society's parlor floor through an array of spiral ramps, enclosed walkways, and faux marble piazzas. The installation features the sound of circulating water in harmony with meticulously tracked paths of the sun, all of which Atlas puts to copious daily use. If she's not too busy basking, Atlas will also join the zoom link on March 14.
Toby Wu is a writer, curator, and PhD Student in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He researches Modern and Contemporary Art in the Transpacific through elemental media theory, specifically Southeast Asia towards East Asia and North America. His research and curatorial interests lie in the notion of substrates across mediums (paper, lacquer, celluloid, and sculpture), or rather, volumetric forms that call into question an object's environmental makeup. He recently curated “Cinematic Involutions” (2025), the inaugural moving-image group show for the AUX: Intermedia Gallery at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge.
Wu has held curatorial and research positions at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, and the National Gallery, Singapore. He has worked with the Centre Pompidou, KADIST Art Foundation, Southside Projections (Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (Manila), and the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Toby holds an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Caitlyn Min-ji Au earned a BFA from the Glass Department at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. From 2020-22 and 2023-24 she was a teaching assistant and fellow at the University of Chicago. She has recently shown work at Shanghai Seminary and W.I.H.S.H. projects, Chicago. She lives and works in Chicago.
ZOOM LINK
The Broodthaers Society of America will host a conversation between Caitlyn Min-ji Au and media scholar Toby Wu on Saturday, March 14th at 1pm. The conversation will take place over zoom, feel free to bookmark the event via the link above. Among other things, Au and Wu will discuss asynchronicity, Atlas the turtle, Marcel Broodthaers' poetry, and pandas. We look forward to seeing you online.
The talk is in conjunction with Winter Garden, Au's site-specific installation at the Broodthaers Society that runs through April 5. Winter Garden is inspired, in part, by Au's knowledge of Broodthaers' Un Jardin d'Hiver, first installed at the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, in 1974 and reimagined posthumously at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977.
Au's Winter Garden consists of two asymmetrical environments designed for Atlas, the Broodthaers Society's resident turtle. On a site visit to the Broodthaers Society last summer, Au observed Atlas outdoors for long stretches of time at different angles of sunlight. Now that Atlas has moved inside for the winter—and thanks to Au—the turtle has full reign of the Broodthaers Society's parlor floor through an array of spiral ramps, enclosed walkways, and faux marble piazzas. The installation features the sound of circulating water in harmony with meticulously tracked paths of the sun, all of which Atlas puts to copious daily use. If she's not too busy basking, Atlas will also join the zoom link on March 14.
Toby Wu is a writer, curator, and PhD Student in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He researches Modern and Contemporary Art in the Transpacific through elemental media theory, specifically Southeast Asia towards East Asia and North America. His research and curatorial interests lie in the notion of substrates across mediums (paper, lacquer, celluloid, and sculpture), or rather, volumetric forms that call into question an object's environmental makeup. He recently curated “Cinematic Involutions” (2025), the inaugural moving-image group show for the AUX: Intermedia Gallery at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge.
Wu has held curatorial and research positions at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, and the National Gallery, Singapore. He has worked with the Centre Pompidou, KADIST Art Foundation, Southside Projections (Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (Manila), and the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Toby holds an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Caitlyn Min-ji Au earned a BFA from the Glass Department at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. From 2020-22 and 2023-24 she was a teaching assistant and fellow at the University of Chicago. She has recently shown work at Shanghai Seminary and W.I.H.S.H. projects, Chicago. She lives and works in Chicago.