Rhea Anastas
Rhea Anastas is an art historian, critic and curator, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, University of California, Irvine. She recently organized, with Nora Schultz, the monographic exhibition, Christine Kozlov, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.
We never needed the horizon of the contemporary to know that art is in our midst. I can’t think of an artist who uses that language, since they are too busy forging new words and worlds. I have no doubt that experimental art/Black culture/performance/film/practice/… and advocating for such practice, and attending to the works and lives of artists, is happening.
This excerpt appears on pages 66 – 68 in Rhea Anastas and Leigh Ledare, Double Bind (New York: A.R.T. Press, 2015). Dialogue by Rhea Anastas and Leigh Ledare; Introduction, Anastas; Preface, Ledare; Photography, Ledare. Editor, Alejandro Cesarco, assisted by Kylie Gilchrist, 264 pgs. Courtesy the authors and A.R.T. Press Art Resources Transfer, New York.
