Carolyn Lazard Artist Talk
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Lazard often repurposes ready-made objects, such as a HEPA air purifier, a noise machine, and a power-lifter recliner chair, calling attention to the dependencies and infrastructures of care that sustain social life. CRIP TIME (2018) is a video-based meditation on the time Lazard devotes to organizing a week’s worth of different medications into brightly colored, plastic pill containers. Through documenting this care-based task, Lazard makes visible the often-obscured care and labor of staying alive. In much of their practice, access is both a theme and a material of their work.
All are welcome!
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. For accommodation requests or for more information about this event, please contact Paige Mead, Studio Art Department Administrator at pmead@bard.edu.
All are welcome!
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. For accommodation requests or for more information about this event, please contact Paige Mead, Studio Art Department Administrator at pmead@bard.edu.
Carolyn Lazard received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Their work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at national and international venues including the Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; MoMA PS1; Museum für Moderne Kunst; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Venice Biennale. In addition to their work as an artist, Lazard writes about their experience of chronic illness and the limitations of biomedical understandings of health. They authored the guidebook Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice, which details specific ways that museums and other cultural spaces can meet the needs of disabled communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail pmead@bard.edu,
or visit https://studioartvisitingartistCarolynLazard.
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema
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