EventsThe New Social Environment#600
(UN)FIXED: Jay Elizondo and Lorenzo Triburgo
Featuring Jay Elizondo, Lorenzo Triburgo and Ksenia Soboleva
Monday, July 11, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Jay Elizondo and Lorenzo Triburgo join Rail Contributor Ksenia Soboleva for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by mel elberg.
In this Talk
Jay Elizondo
Artist Jay Elizondo’s work seduces viewers into visceral confrontations with the queer body. Elizondo’s work has been featured in exhibitions in New York including Idol Worship at Smack Mellon, The Unspeakable at Pfizer Building, Criminalize This! at Amos Eno Gallery and in Miami including the 2018 and 2019 Satellite Art Fairs. Her curatorial projects include (UN)FIXED at SoMad and You Remember How Lonely […] at Please Don’t Come to This Show. She was a resident artist at Chautauqua Art Residency in 2020. She is a recipient of the 2020 Edward Zutrau Memorial Award. Her work’s been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Daily Lazy, Sidewalkkilla, Front Runner Magazine and Hiss Mag. Elizondo lives and works in New York.
Lorenzo Triburgo
Through performance, photography, video and audio Lorenzo Triburgo, often with their partner and collaborator Sarah Van Dyck, elevates trans*queer subjectivity and abolitionist politics. Lorenzo was awarded a 2019 Workspace Residency at Baxter St/CCNY, an AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2020, and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, (Chicago, IL) and Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR). They co-curated Criminalize THIS! at Amos Eno (2019, Brooklyn, NY) and (UN)FIXED at SoMad (2022, NYC). Their writing and artworks have been featured in such publications as GLQ, Art Journal, GUP, and the Transgender Studies Reader 2 edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura (Routledge).
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.
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 🌈✨