Laurel V. McLaughlin
Laurel V. McLaughlin (she/her/hers) is a writer, curator, art historian, and Curator and Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries. She is completing her doctorate in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, and her work has been published in Art Papers, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, C Magazine, Performa Magazine, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, and women & performance, among others. She is currently co-convening the symposium Magical Thinking at MASS MoCA with manuel arturo abreu and conducting research for a forthcoming exhibition supported by a 2022 Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Fellowship.
In the exhibition Hybrid: An Interspecies Opera at Fridman Gallery, on view through December 13, 2023, Heather Dewey-Hagborg stages another kind of revelatory reckoning, this time in the biomedical arena in which pigs, one of our closest genetic relatives, host organs for human use.
In the second video of three in Jayson Musson: His History of Art at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM), a russet-colored-corduroy-suited, yellow turtle-necked, and well-meaning but supercilious art collector “Jay,” aka Jayson Musson, gently explains to his roommate, a pot-smoking hare, Ollie: “Art history isn’t that complicated. Whatever man fucks it kills and whatever it kills it fucks.”
