EventsThe New Social Environment#966

Brendan Fernandes: Within Reach

Featuring Fernandes and Elizabeth Buhe, with Bob Holman

Tuesday, December 19, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Brendan Fernandes joins Rail contributor Elizabeth Buhe for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Bob Holman.

In this Talk

Visit Within Reach, on view at Susan Inglett Gallery, New York through January 27, 2024 →

Brendan Fernandes

Internationally recognized Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement. Brendan’s projects take on hybrid forms: part ballet, part queer dance party, part politic protest, but always rooted in collaboration and solidarity. Brendan has received the Artadia Award (2019), a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2020) and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant (2019). His projects have shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennial (New York) and the Guggenheim Museum (New York) among many others. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.

Elizabeth Buhe

Photo by Jason Mandella

Elizabeth Buhe is a widely-published critic and art historian based in New York. Her writing addresses expanded modernisms and spatial ontologies in Europe and North America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elizabeth has taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at Fordham University, and is a contributing critic for the Brooklyn Rail and Studio International. Her writing has earned support from the Fulbright Program, the Luce Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Getty Research Institute, The Courtauld, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, among others. She is currently completing a book titled Beside Painting on abstract painting and perception.

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 🌈✨