EventsThe New Social Environment#556
Questions to Ask Beforehand: Morgan Bassichis
Featuring Bassichis and Ksenia M. Soboleva
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Comedic performer and artist Morgan Bassichis joins Rail contributor Ksenia M. Soboleva for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.
In this Talk
Morgan Bassichis
Comedic performer MORGAN BASSICHIS has been called “a tall child or, well, a big bird” by The Nation and “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker. Morgan’s book of to-do lists, The Odd Years, was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2020. Past shows include Don’t Rain On My Bat Mitzvah (co-created with Ira Khonen Temple, Creative Time, 2021), and Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me (Whitney Museum, 2019). They were included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York 2015 (MoMA PS1). Morgan has also released two albums. They edited and wrote the introduction for Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s 1977 The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (Nightboat Books 2019). They live in New York City.
Ksenia M. Soboleva
Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Ursula Magazine, Cultured, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history, and an art historical approach to autobiography. She is currently completing her book manuscript What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories. Soboleva teaches at NYU.
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 🌈✨