CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/12/2026

Printed Matter presents Chang Yuchen & Ross Perlin in Conversation: a dictionary, a loom, a manifesto …

Wednesday, August 12, from 6—8 PM, on the occasion of her current exhibition at Printed Matter, Chang Yuchen will be joined by linguist Ross Perlin in a conversation exploring her practice as it intersects with language—spoken, printed, bound, sold and found on beaches. Taking the exhibition and publishing output as a starting point, the two will build on past exchanges to consider how language and languages—real and the imaginary—can veer into the useful and the useless.

Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner—writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. Yuchen is also an advocate for the art of her mother, Jin Mei.

Chang Yuchen photographed by Junyan Hu.

Yuchen is a recipient of the Princeton Arts Fellowship, the New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellowship, the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, the The Poetry Project Curatorial Fellowship, the Huayu Youth Award, and the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship, among others. She has shown and performed her work at MoMA PS1, Walker Art Center, Pioneer Works, Beijing Commune, the High Line, Carnegie Museum of Art, Amant, Artists Space, Para Site, and Tai Kwun Contemporary.

She has been an artist-in-residence at Triangle Arts Association, Smack Mellon, Asymmetry Art Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Yuchen has written for publications including Heichi Magazine, Press and Fold, Art in Print, and Randian, and currently teaches in the Dance MFA low-residency program at Bennington College.

Ross Perlin photographed by Annette Hornischer.

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), a non-profit research institute focused on documenting and supporting endangered languages in New York City and beyond. His most recent book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, published in 2024 by Grove.

Printed Matter
Chang Yuchen & Ross Perlin in Conversation
a dictionary, a loom, a manifesto, a note, a kite, a phone call, a class, a universe, an echo, a cube, a treehole, some wrapping paper, 3 poems, 6 drinks, 7 letters, 20 snakes, 24 words on personhood, and my mom
Wednesday, August 12, 6–8 PM
231 11th Ave, NYC
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