EventsThe New Social Environment#869

Pedro Reyes

Featuring Reyes and José Falconi, with Pierre Joris

Friday, August 4, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Pedro Reyes joins Rail contributor José Falconi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Pierre Joris.

Pedro Reyes

A photo of Pedro Reyes on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Pedro Reyes studied architecture but considers himself a sculptor. His works integrate elements of theater, psychology, and activism, and takes a variety of forms, from penetrable sculptures to puppet productions. In Fall 2016, he held a visiting faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a residency at MIT CAST as the inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist. Recently, Reyes was commissioned by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists together with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, to raise awareness on the growing risk of nuclear conflict, for which he developed Atomic Amnesia, presented in Times Square, May 2022. For his work on disarmament, Reyes received the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2021.

José Falconi

A photo of José Falconi on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Assistant Professor of Art and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, José Falconi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. From 2001 to 2011, he was Art Forum Curator at the David Rockefeller for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, curating more than thirty shows of cutting-edge Latino and Latin American artists in an academic setting. In the United States, he has been appointed Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Architecture at Brandeis University (2014-2020), Boston University in the Spring of 2016 and in the School of the Arts at the University of Connecticut in the Spring of 2021.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
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 🌈✨

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