EventsThe New Social Environment#806

arms ache avid aeon: fierce pussy amplified

Featuring Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Carrie Yamaoka, Zoe Leonard, and Jill Casid, with Svetlana Kitto

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

fierce pussy members Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Carrie Yamaoka, and Zoe Leonard join Visual Studies scholar Jill Casid for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Svetlana Kitto.

In this Talk

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fierce pussy

Photo by Alice O’Malley

Formed in New York City in 1991 through their immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing mobilization around LGBTQ+ rights, fierce pussy brought lesbian identity and visibility directly into the streets. The collective used readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, their own baby pictures, and printers at their day jobs. Four core members continue to work together today, and their work is on view in arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified Chapter 7 organized by Jo-ey Tang at Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Nancy Brooks Brody

Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, Nancy Brooks Brody’s work is non-representational, and more recently site-determined, engaging with architecture as well as the body.

Joy Episalla

Joy Episalla is an interdisciplinary artist whose work repositions photographic and moving image media into the territory of sculpture.

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Carrie Yamaoka

Carrie Yamaoka is a visual artist working with the transformational possibilities of form, perception, materiality and process.

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Zoe Leonard

Zoe Leonard is a visual artist working with photography, sculpture, and installation.

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Jill H. Casid

Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein

An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the appointment of Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is bringing to completion Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is in Spanish translation (Metales Pesados, 2022), and the co-edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014). Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

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.

https://www.daostrom.com/

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 🌈✨