EventsThe New Social Environment#945
Meleko Mokgosi: Spaces of Subjection
Featuring Mokgosi and Zoë Hopkins, with Aristilde Kirby
Monday, November 20, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Meleko Mokgosi joins Rail contributor Zoë Hopkins for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Aristilde Kirby.
In this Talk
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi (born in Francistown, Botswana; lives and works in Wellesley, MA) is an artist, Associate Professor and director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art, and co-founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. By working across history painting, cinematic tropes, psychoanalysis, and post-colonial theory, Mokgosi creates large-scale project-based installations that examine historiography and the fundamental models for the inscription and transmission of history. Mokgosi’s 2023 exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery showcases new work from recent solo exhibitions at Saint Louis Art Museum and Art Gallery of York University in Toronto.
Zoë Hopkins
Zoë Hopkins is a writer and critic based in New York. She received her BA in Art History and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is currently working on her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University. Her writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Cultured and Hyperallergic.
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 🌈✨