Category Archives: WEB/TELEVISION/RADIO

MONICA BONVICINI — LOVER’S MATERIAL

I like to work in a way that all the processes about the creation of the work are visible in the end when the work is done. I do not like works where you have to think, “How is this done?” Everything can be visible. — Monica Bonvicini*

Bonvicini gives a video tour of her traveling exhibition LOVER’S MATERIAL, through the beginning of May.

See link below for details.

MONICA BONVICINI—LOVER’S MATERIAL*

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Through May 3.

Monica Bonvicini, Lover’s Material, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, October 10, 2020–May 3, 2021, from top: Little Liar, 2020, photograph by Jens Ziehe; Remember This House, 2020, and Black Chain Rain, 2020; Grab Them by the Balls #3, 2020; Breach of Decor, 2020 (floorpiece), and LEGSCUTOUT Big #3, 2015; Pendant (Guilt) #1, 2020; Ekel, 2020, and Grab Them by the Balls #3; White Out, 2020; NEVER TIRE, 2020, photograph by Ziehe; In My Hand, 2019, photograph by Ziehe; Marlboro Man, 2019, photograph by Ziehe. Images © Monica Bonvicini and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020, courtesy of the artist and König Galerie, Berlin, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Mailand, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, and Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

PLURAL POSSIBILITIES & THE FEMALE BODY WORKSHOP

On the occasion of the exhibition PLURAL POSSIBILITIES & THE FEMALE BODY—organized by Nina Bozicnik and Dr. Ann Poulson, now in its final weeks—the Henry Art Gallery presents an online art reflection and writing workshop with Brittney Frantece.

See link below for registration information.

BRITTNEY FRANTECE—ART REFLECTION AND WRITING WORKSHOP

Henry Art Gallery

Tuesday, April 27.

4 pm on the West Coast; 7 pm East Coast.

Plural Possibilities & the Female Body, Henry Art Gallery, February 27, 2021–May 9, 2021, from top: Wangechi Mutu, All the way up, all the way out, 2012, collage on linoleum, collection of John and Shari Behnke, photograph by Robert Wedemeyer, image © Wangechi Mutu, courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles; Brittney Leeanne WilliamsOur Horizon, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, collection of Josef Vascovitz and Lisa Goodman, photograph by RCH photography, image © Brittney Leeanne Williams, courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Lynn Hershman Leeson, TV Legs, 1990, gelatin silver print, collection of John and Shari Behnke, images © Lynn Hershman Leeson, courtesy of the artist; Christina Quarles, Vulgar Moon, 2016, acrylic on canvas, collection of Josef Vascovitz and Lisa Goodman, image © Christina Quarles, courtesy of the artist.

KYLE ABRAHAM — WHEN WE FELL

The dance event of the season, understandably, happens to be a film. WHEN WE FELL—choreographed by Kyle Abraham and directed by Abraham and Ryan Marie Helfant—was commissioned by the New York City Ballet and was shot inside their Lincoln Center home.

WHEN WE FELL is danced by India BradleyJonathan FahouryChristopher GrantClaire KretzschmarLauren LovetteTaylor Stanley, KJ Takahashi, and Sebastian Villarini-Velez. Music for the 16-minute work is by Morton Feldman, Jason Moran, and Nico Muhly.

The film is introduced by dancer-choreographer Wendy Whelan, Associate Artistic Director, New York City Ballet. See link below for free streaming details to the film as well as the short RETURN TO FORM: CREATING KYLE ABRAHAM’S WHEN WE FELL.

WHEN WE FELL

Directed by Kyle Abraham and Ryan Marie Helfant.

New York City Ballet

Streaming through April 22

Kyle Abraham and Ryan Marie Helfant, When We Fell (2021), stills by Helfant. Images © Kyle Abraham and Ryan Marie Helfant, courtesy of the artists and New York City Ballet.

ALISON SAAR AND HANK WILLIS THOMAS

I want my work to be universally understood. Not necessarily appreciated but somehow to connect with people universally—which I think is a very utopic, if not moronic, approach to making art. [Laughter] But it’s something I aspire to. I think a lot of times, even beyond issues of race and gender and stuff like that, I’m also really interested in issues of humanity, and these utopic, kooky ideas of how [if] we can all come to understand each other, life will be better. — Alison Saar*

Join Hamza Walker in conversation with Alison Saar and Hank Willis Thomas., presented by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

See link below to register for this online event.

ALISON SAAR and HANK WILLIS THOMAS IN CONVERSATION WITH HAMZA WALKER

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon

Thursday, April 15.

4 pm on the West Coast, 7 pm East Coast.

*Alison Saar, from forthcoming feature in PARIS LA 17.

From top: Alison Saar, Queen of the 88s, 2021, multi-block linocut on handmade Hamada Kozo paper backed with Sekishu Kozo, image © Alison Saar, courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland; Saar, photograph by Paul O’Connor, courtesy of Saar and LA Louver; Hank Willis Thomas, courtesy and © Hank Willis Thomas Studio; Thomas, History is Past, Past is Present, 2017, print, lenticular, image © Hank Willis Thomas, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.

RACHEL KUSHNER IN CONVERSATION

Sometimes I am boggled by the gallery of souls I’ve known. By the lore. The wild history, unsung. People crowd in and talk to me in dreams. People who died or disappeared or whose connection to my own life makes no logical sense, but exists, as strong as ever, in a past that seeps and stains instead of fading. The first time I took Ambien, a drug that makes some people sleep-fix sandwiches and sleepwalk on broken glass, I felt as if everyone I’d ever known were gathered around, not unpleasantly. It was a party and had a warm reunion feel to it. We were all there.

But sometimes the million stories I’ve got and the million people I’ve known pelt the roof of my internal world like a hailstorm. — Rachel Kushner*

A series of online events:

On Tuesday, Kushner will join Hal Foster to talk about her new book of essays The Hard Crowd. The following day she will join Dana Spiotta in conversation. And a week after that, Kim Gordon will sit down with the author.

RACHEL KUSHNER and HAL FOSTER—THE HARD CROWD

London Review 

Tuesday, April 6.

11 am on the West Coast, 2 pm East Coast, 6 pm London, 7 pm Paris.

RACHEL KUSHNER and DANA SPIOTTA IN CONVERSATION

City Lights 

Wednesday, April 7.

6 pm on the West Coast, 9 pm East Coast.

RACHEL KUSHNER with KIM GORDON

Skylight Books

Wednesday, April 14.

6:30 pm on the West Coast, 9:30 pm East Coast.

*Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020 (New York: Scribner, 2021). Text © Rachel Kushner, courtesy of the author and Scribner.

From top: Rachel Kushner, photograph by Chloe Aftel; Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020. Images courtesy and © the author and Scribner.