EventsThe New Social Environment#979

Michelle Handelman: DELIRIUM PART ONE: DEATH (The Breakdown)

Featuring Handelman, Jill H. Casid, Ksenia M. Soboleva

Friday, January 12, 2024 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Michelle Handelman joins Rail contributors Jill H. Casid and Ksenia M. Soboleva for a conversation.

Michelle Handelman

A photo of Michelle Handelman on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Grace Roselli
Michelle Handelman is a visual artist/filmmaker/writer who makes hypnotic moving image installations that push against the boundaries of gender, race and sexuality. Coming up through the years of the AIDS crisis and Culture Wars, Handelman has built a body of work that confronts the things we collectively fear and deny: sex, death, chaos. Handelman is a 2019 Creative Capital Awardee and a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has been shown widely in such venues as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Pompidou Centre, Paris; ICA, London; and elsewhere. Her award-winning film BLOODSISTERS: LEATHER, DYKES AND SADOMASOCHISM (1995) takes an in-depth look at the San Francisco leatherdyke scene during the mid-90s and is recognized as a landmark of queer history.

Jill H. Casid

A photo of Jill H. Casid on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

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.

Ksenia M. Soboleva

A photo of Ksenia M. Soboleva on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Irina Kadyrova-Schuddeboom
Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Ursula Magazine, Cultured, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history, and an art historical approach to autobiography. She is currently completing her book manuscript What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories. Soboleva teaches at NYU. 
 

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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