EventsThe New Social Environment#339
A Conversation on Nam June Paik
Featuring Rudolf Frieling and Constance Lewallen
Monday, July 12, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Curator Rudolf Frieling joins Rail Editor-at-Large Constance Lewallen for a conversation. We conclude with a musical performance by Clara Joy.
In this Talk
Rudolf Frieling
Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Rudolf Frieling is the co-curator of the recent retrospectives Nam June Paik (2019–21), Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here (2019), Bruce Conner: It’s All True (2016–17), and the survey Soundtracks (2017). Other exhibitions include The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now (2008–09), and Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media (2012). Frieling is also a Senior Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He holds a M.A. from the Free University Berlin and a Ph.D. from the University of Hildesheim.
Constance Lewallen
Curator and writer Constance Lewallen (1939-2022) was Adjunct Curator at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she curated many contemporary art exhibitions, including Ant Farm (1968-1978), 2004 (co-curated with Steve Seid), A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, 2007, and co-curated Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and the End for the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis. She is the author of 500 Capp Street: David Ireland’s House and co-author with Dore Bowen of Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters, both published by UC Press. She was an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨