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Jones' films and media art projects have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, London's Tate Gallery, and numerous media festivals and broadcast outlets internationally. Jones works in a variety of genres, including fiction, documentary and experimental music-related pieces.

Malik Gaines is a writer and artist. His published articles include “The Quadruple-Consciousness of Nina Simone” in Women & Performance, “City After 50 Years’ Living: LA’s Differences in Relation” in Art Journal, and many short essays and interviews about art and performance for journals, magazines, museum publications, and artists’ monographs. His forthcoming book, Excesses of the Sixties: Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left considers 1960s performance in a transnational political context.

Gaines has performed and exhibited extensively with the group My Barbarian. The trio has presented work at venues including MoMA, The Kitchen, New Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Participant Inc. (New York), LACMA, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, MOCA (Los Angeles), SFMoMA (San Francisco), ICA (Philadelphia), Museo El Eco (Mexico City), Power Plant, (Toronto), ICA (London), De Appel (Amsterdam), El Matadero (Madrid), Peres Projects (Berlin), Torpedo (Oslo), Galleria Civica (Trento), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), Yaffo 23 (Jerusalem) and many others. The group has been included in the Whitney, Montreal, California and Performa Biennials and the Baltic Triennial and has received grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Creative Capital, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs and Art Matters. Their work has been discussed in the New Yorker, New York Times, LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, Bomb and various international newspapers, and by scholars including Shannon Jackson in The Drama Review, Tavia Nyong’o in Social Text, and José Muñoz in his book “Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity.”

Gaines is assistant professor of Performance Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is also a visiting faculty member in Film/Video at Bard College’s Milton Avery School of the Arts. From 2011-15 he served as assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Hunter College, CUNY.  Gaines holds a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from UCLA and an MFA in Writing from CalArts.

Alexandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose solo work has been presented at the Broad, REDCAT, and LAXART in Los Angeles; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the TBA Festival in Portland, Oregon; MoMA PS1, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Park Avenue Armory in New York City; and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. Since 2000, Segade has worked with Malik Gaines and Jade Gordon in the collective My Barbarian, whose work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, two Performa Biennials, the Montreal Biennial and the Baltic Triennial, among others, and was the subject of a solo exhibition at the New Museum in 2016. My Barbarian has received a United States Artists Fellowship in performance and has previously been given support from Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Art Matters. Interested in collaborative models of artistic and theatrical production, Segade also founded the collectives A.R.M., which explores queer histories in projects at the Whitney, NY; BOFFO, Fire Island; Rogaland Kunstcenter, Norway; Kuir Festoval, Bogota, Colombia; and DD55 in Cologne; as well as Courtesy the Artists, a shifting NYC based group which has presented performances at the Kitchen, Studio Museum in Harlem and Recess Projects, NYC, among others. In 2018, Segade co-wrote and directed the multimedia performance “Popular Revolt,” with Amy Ruhl, that premiered at the NYU Skirball, in a festival celebrating the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. Segade’s recent writing on comics, science fiction and Chicanx zines has been published in Artforum and Yale Theater Journal. Segade was artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory from 2017-19, where he will be presenting the science-fiction chorale performance Star Choir, a collaboration with Malik Gaines, in May 2019.

 

Stephanie Barber is an American writer and artist. She has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Her film and video work has been screened at MoMA, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The National Gallery of Art, DC; The Paris Cinematheque; The Tate Modern; London and other festivals, galleries and museums. 

Her most recent book All The People was published by Ink Press Productions in July of 2015. Previous books these here separated to see how they standing alone 2008 and Night Moves 2013 are available from Publishing Genius Press. 

She is currently living in Baltimore, Maryland where she is a Resident Artist at the Mt. Royal Graduate School for Multidisciplinary Arts at MICA. 

Her videos are distributed by The Video Data Bank, Chicago http://www.vdb.org/artists/stephanie-barber. More can be learned at her website http://www.stephaniebarber.com/

Suzie Silver has been creating queer performance and video art for over two decades.  A true tomboy and thrill-seeker from day one, her youth was spent dirt-biking through canyons and dancing in the gay/lesbian bars of Tijuana and San Diego. Finding her way into the exceptional art program of UCSD in the early 1980s, she was introduced to the history of cinema, experimental film, activist media and performance art by such luminaries as Babette Mangolte, Eleanor Antin, Dee Dee Halleck and Jean-Pierre Gorin.  Her well-known early videos, Freebird and A Spy emerged from her involvement with the cabaret performance art scene in Chicago in the late 80’s and early 90s.  A technophile and fan of electronic arts, her later videos use digital manipulation to meld together appropriated images and music, recorded performance and animated sequences into irreverent celebrations of exoticism, ecstasy and camp.   Silver has often worked closely with other artists, as a presenter, collaborator, and teacher, including ongoing collaborations with Hilary Harp and Eric Moe.  Her love of science fiction and her life-long commitment to imagining alternate desires lead her to instigate the book/DVD project Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities.  All of Silver’s work alludes to the capacity for desire to disrupt social boundaries and imagine new futures.

Her work has exhibited and screened widely nationally and internationally at venues including: The Whitney Museum of Art, The New Museum, Documenta, ICA Boston, ICA London, Pacific Film Archives, Anthology Film Archives, London Film Festival, Seoul Film Festival, and Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festivals all over the world including Melbourne, London, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, Sao Paulo, Auckland and many more.

Laetitia Sonami is a sound artist and performer. Sonami’s sound performances, live-film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation.   Best known for her unique instrument, the lady’s glove, she has devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place and objects. Recent projects include OCCAM IX with French composer Eliane Radigue, 3-MAJ a multi-channel sound installation, and SHEEPWOMAN a live film in collaboration with SUE-C. Awards include the Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Awards.

New York–based painter Ulrike Müller mobilizes vocabularies of color and shape that are politically and emotionally charged and encourage figurative readings. Her work moves between different contexts and publics, it invites collaboration and expands its realms of production in processes of exploration and exchange. Alongside small-scale paintings in baked enamel, Müller also produces expansive wall paintings, publications, prints, and textiles.
Ulrike Müller studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. She was a co-editor of the queer feminist journal LTTR and from 2009-2012 organized the collaborative project Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists. Müller teaches painting in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.  Her work has been show at the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation (Mumok, Vienna, 2015), in the Whitney Biennial (New York, 2017), the 57th Carnegie International (Pittsburgh, 2018), at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf, 2018) and in the international exhibition of the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). An exhibition of new work is scheduled to open at Callicoon Fine Arts in New York in April 2021.

Cameron Martin is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA in Art/Semiotics from Brown University in 1994, and graduated from the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1996. In addition to solo shows at galleries in the United States, Japan and Europe, he has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and most recently the University Art Museum at SUNY Albany.  He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His work is included in many museum collections, and he has been the recipient of a Pollock Krasner, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards. His writing has appeared in Art Forum, Paper Monument and the Brooklyn Rail. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York

NY -based artist A.L. Steiner utilizes constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, performance, writing and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne. Steiner is co-curator of Ridykeulous, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) and collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Steiner is Senior Critic at Yale University's School of Art, and her work is featured in permanent collections such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Marieluise Hessel Collection, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Modern Art. Steiner is the recipient of awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize and Tiffany Foundation Award, and is represented by Deborah Schamoni in Munich. 

Dana Hoey is a feminist artist working in photography, video and social practice.   She is represented by Petzel Gallery, NY, and recently exhibited "Five Rings" at the Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, which featured self defense for Police Athletic League girls.   Her next show, “Dana Hoey Presents”, will be at Petzel summer 2019 and will include the work of Marcela Torres and a ladies fight night.  Three books are available on her work, “The Phantom Sex” with essay by Johanna Burton, “Experiments in Primitive Living”, with essay by Maurice Berger, and “Profane Waste” in collaboration with the writer Gretchen Rubin.  Her persistent interests are conflict and the possibility of political art.  She enjoys working with artists of all genres.
 

Michelle Lopez has had solo exhibitions with Feature, Deitch Projects, Simon Preston Gallery, LA><Art, Paule Anglim (SF), Fondazione Trussardi (Milan). Notable group exhibitions: PS 1 (Greater New York, 2000), Public Art Fund Metrotech, OCMA California Biennial, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum. Michelle has been reviewed in Artforum, New York Times, Art in America, Frieze, Newsweek. She is the recipient of a NYFA fellowship grant in the category of sculpture (2011), UC Berkeley research grants, and a NYFA fiscal sponsorship. Before receiving her MFA from SVA in 1994, Michelle earned a BA cum laude degree in literature and art history from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1992. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn and teaches in the MFA Fine Arts graduate program at the School of Visual Arts.

David Levi Strauss is the author of Co-illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication (The MIT Press, 2020), Photography and Belief (David Zwirner Books, 2020, and in an Italian edition by Johan & Levi in Milan in 2021), Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow (Aperture, 2014), From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual (Oxford University Press, 2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (Aperture 2003, and in a new edition, 2012, and in an Italian edition by Postmedia Books in Milan, in 2007), and Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (Autonomedia 1999, and a new edition, 2010). In Case Something Different Happens in the Future: Joseph Beuys and 9/11 was published by Documenta 13, and To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution, edited by Strauss, Michael Taussig, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Dilar Dirik, was published by Autonomedia in 2016, and in an Italian edition by Elèuthera, in Milan in 2017. The Critique of the Image Is the Defense of the Imagination, edited by Strauss, Taussig, and Wilson, and also including work by Carolee Schneemann, Diane di Prima, Charles Stein, Ivan Illich, Christopher Bamford, and Gerrit Lansing, was published by Autonomedia in September 2020. From 2007-2021, Strauss directed the graduate program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), andHouses of Ravicka (2017)—as well as the recently released Prose Architectures, her first monograph of drawings, and Calamities, a collection of linked auto-essays on the intersections of writing, drawing, and community, which won the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's,BOMB magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. A 2014-15 fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and a 2017 Lannan Foundation Writing Residency in Marfa, TX, she lives and makes work in New England.

 

A.B. Harvard; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Fred Moten is the Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke University. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition(University of Minnesota Press), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works), B. Jenkins (Duke University Press), and two forthcoming books: The Feel Trio(Letter Machine Editions) and “when one consents not to be a single being” (Duke University Press).

Anselm Berrigan is the author of nine books of poetry: Pregrets (Black Square Editions, 2021), Something for Everybody (Wave Books, fall 2018), Come in Alone (Wave Books, May 2016), Primitive State (Edge, 2015), Notes from Irrelevance (Wave Books, 2011), Free Cell (City Lights Books, 2009), Some Notes on My Programming (Edge, 2006), Zero Star Hotel (Edge, 2002), and Integrity and Dramatic Life (Edge, 1999). He is also co-author of two collaborative books: Loading, with visual artist Jonathan Allen (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and Skasers, with poet John Coletti (Flowers & Cream, 2012). His chapbooks include Degrets (Couch Press, 2017), Pregrets (Vagabond Press, 2014), and Sure Shot (Overpass, 2013). He edited What Is Poetry? Just Kidding, I Know You Know: Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter 1983-2009, a collection of interviews with contemporary artists and poets, published by Wave Books in 2017.  He is the current poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, and co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011). A member of the subpress publishing collective, he has published Selected Poems of Steve Carey (2009) and Your Ancient See Through by Hoa Nguyen (2002), along with first book by poets Adam DeGraff and Brendan Lorber. From 2003-2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, where he also hosted the Wednesday Night Reading Series for four years. He was awarded a 2015 Process Space Residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and in 2014 he was awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Residency by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. In 2017 he received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, and participated as performer and teacher in the Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kisii, Kenya. 

Jeanne Liotta (artist/filmmaker) makes films, moving image installations, projector performances, photographs and sound operating at a lively intersection of art, science,& natural philosophy.  Her last solo show The World is a Picture of the World played notions of the cosmic imagination as determined by NASA imagery. . She has been making work for over 3 decades, including early works in film and performance with Bradley Eros among other East Village underground art projects, bands and collaborations. Her signature 16mm film of the night skies, Observando El Cielo (2007) received  the Tiger Award  for Short Film at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and her works can been seen at film festivals, micro cinemas, museums, galleries, observatories and basements worldwide. Liotta organized a community garden event called Firefly Cinema for 15 years in collaboration with NYPL, was a researcher at Anthology Film Archives Joseph Cornell Film Collection, and recently published an essay in Millennium Film Journal “Enter Germs, Enter the World: Hand processing artists films in the AIDS era”. Co-currently she is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder where she directs the graduate program in Arts Practices/Film and has been mentoring graduate students in the Bard MFA program since 2004 . Her films are distributed by Lightcone, Paris and she is represented by Microscope Gallery NY.

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