EventsThe New Social Environment#760
Aria Dean: Abattoir, U.S.A.!
Featuring Dean and McKenzie Wark, with K Allado-McDowell
Monday, March 6, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Aria Dean joins Rail contributor McKenzie Wark for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by K Allado-McDowell.
In this Talk
Aria Dean
New York-based artist and writer Aria Dean has created a multi-platform body of work based in trenchant critiques of representational systems. In February 2023, she opened a solo exhibition at The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions and performances include REDCAT, Los Angeles (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2019), among others. Significant group shows include the Whitney Biennial: Quiet As It’s Kept (2022); the Hammer Museum’s biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version (2021); the Institute of Contemporary Art, The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2019); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018); and the de Young Museum, San Francisco (2017), among others.
McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is the author of Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte), among other things. Her book Raving was published in 2023 by Duke University Press.
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 🌈✨