Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning
Performa Founder and Director RoseLee Goldberg, Curator Ana Janevski, artist Zoe Leonard, and Rail Editor-at-Large Barry Schwabsky join Rail contributor Lynne Tillman for a conversation.
The New Social Environment #1071
Recorded on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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In this talk:
🚩 RoseLee Goldberg -- RoseLee Goldberg, world-renowned art historian, critic, and curator, is Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa. Launched in 2004 to create a highly visible public platform for contemporary art and performance by artists, Performa has changed public and academic perception of performance art with its city-wide Biennial, ground-breaking commissions, publications, and original arts-broadcasting platform. Goldberg’s many publications include her pioneering book, Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and now in fourteen languages. Her many awards include Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government. Goldberg has taught at NYU Steinhardt since 1987.
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🚩 Ana Janevski -- Ana Janevski is a curator in the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA. She has organized more than 30 performances by artists including Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Trajal Harrell, Boris Charmatz, Jérôme Bel, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Rabih Mroué, among others. She has been involved in the programming of MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, where she curated Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning (2024) and Nora Turato: pool 5 (2022), among others. She regularly contributes to and co-edits publications on performance, the body, and the history of art in Eastern Europe. She received her MPhil at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and her MA at Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3.
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🚩 Zoe Leonard -- New York-based artist Zoe Leonard balances rigorous conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision in her work, which merges photography, sculpture, and installation. By employing strategies of repetition, shifting perspectives, and a multitude of printing processes, Leonard’s practice probes the politics of representation and display. Leonard explores themes such as gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement, and the urban landscape. Her photography specifically invites us to contemplate the role that the medium plays in constructing history, and to consider the roots of contemporary photographic culture.
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🚩 Barry Schwabsky -- Art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky writes for The Nation and is co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. His recent books include The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso, 2016), Heretics of Language (Black Square Editions, 2017), Landscape Painting Now (D.A.P, 2019), The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting (Sternberg Press, 2020), and the monograph Gillian Carnegie (Lund Humphries, 2020). His most recent collection of poetry is A Feeling of And (Black Square Editions, 2021). He is co-Director of Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art and an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
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🚩 Lynne Tillman -- Lynne Tillman’s novels include Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Other books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-1967, photographs by Stephen Shore: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Someday This Will Be Funny. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and the Katherine Anne Porter award. Her most recent work, MOTHERCARE, is an autobiographical book-length essay on caring for a sick parent for 11 years.
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