EventsThe New Social Environment#97

Nathaniel Dorsky with Constance Lewallen

Thursday, July 30, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky will discuss his body of work with writer, curator, and Rail Editor-at-Large, Constance Lewallen. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Patricia Spears Jones.

In this Talk

Nathaniel Dorsky

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Nathanial Dorsky has received awards from the Guggenheim, two from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the California Arts Council. His films have been presented at MOMA, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Modern, the Filmoteca Española, Madrid, the Prague Film Archive, the Vienna Film Museum, the Pacific Film Archive of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Harvard Film Archive, Princeton University, Yale University, and frequently exhibits new work at the New York Film Festival’s Views from the Avant-Garde and the Wavelengths program of the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2012, Dorsky took part in the Whitney Biennial. In 2015, the New York Film Festival honored his work with a thirty-four film complete retrospective at Lincoln Center.

Constance Lewallen

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Curator and writer Constance Lewallen (1939-2022) was Adjunct Curator at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she curated many contemporary art exhibitions, including Ant Farm (1968-1978), 2004 (co-curated with Steve Seid), A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, 2007, and co-curated Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and the End for the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis. She is the author of 500 Capp Street: David Ireland’s House and co-author with Dore Bowen of Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters, both published by UC Press. She was an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.

    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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