EventsThe New Social Environment#135
Gedi Sibony with Yasi Alipour
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Gedi Sibony will be in conversation with artist and Rail contributor, Yasi Alipour. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Jared Stanley.
In this Talk
Gedi Sibony
Since the early 2000s, Gedi Sibony has used the discarded byproducts of industrial production as the basis for exploring the interplay between viewer, objects, and space. Sibony’s work emphasizes the experience of encountering objects in carefully choreographed space. Sibony was born in New York City where his father, an immigrant from North Africa, worked as a contractor renovating apartments. Witnessing this process as a child, Sibony gained an appreciation for the elemental way in which objects and space interrelate to shape our environment. Sibony’s practice encompasses sculpture, installation, drawing and painting – often occupying the space between mediums, and between the readymade and the composed.
Yasi Alipour
Iranian artist, writer, and folder Yasi Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper, counting, and silence. She received her MFA from Columbia University and is a faculty member at Columbia, Parsons and SVA, New York.
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 🌈✨