LECTURE | LUXURY LINER

LECTURE | RSVP HERE | Open to Stanford Community

For this talk of Port Call, Georg Dahled will present a slideshow of Luxury Liner, featuring several late arrivals and new contributions. It will begin with a brief introduction, followed by the slideshow, which guests are invited to explore informally while enjoying refreshments and engaging in conversation. The gathering will conclude with a moderated conversation and Q&A with the artist, facilitated by Pauline Mornet, PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Stanford University.

The event will occur at Roble Lounge in Roble Gym, Stanford on October 29 from 12–2pm. Light refreshments will be served.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Theater & Performance Studies and the Department of Art & Art History.

ABOUT LUXURY LINER

Luxury Liner is a project developed by artist Georg Dahled between June 2025 and June 2026, exploring language, travel, and the fragility of translation. During this period, Dahled travelled extensively. At numerous stops along his journeys, he mailed vintage postcards sourced from flea markets and antique shops to recipients around the world. Each card bears a stamped sentence that documents his attempts to learn or approximate the language of the place from which it was sent. As he appears to be in the process of learning and experimenting with each language, misspellings, grammatical errors, and mistranslations accumulate and mutate, turning linguistic failure into both method and material. A selection of the original postcards was presented in a solo exhibition at London’s Under the Spell Artspace in summer 2026.