EventsThe New Social Environment#30

Lyle Ashton Harris with McKenzie Wark

Featuring Harris and Wark

Monday, April 27, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Lyle Ashton Harris joins Rail contributor McKenzie Wark for a conversation.

In this Talk

McKenzie Wark

A photo of McKenzie Wark on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo credit: Z. Walsh
McKenzie Wark is the author of Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte), among other things. Her book Raving was published in 2023 by Duke University Press.

Lyle Ashton Harris

A photo of Lyle Ashton Harris on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Harris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Harris is represented in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Harris is a Professor of Art at New York University and lives in New York.

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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