EventsThe New Social Environment#210

Yuji Agematsu with Jessica Holmes

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Yuji Agematsu joins writer and critic Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Andrew Durbin.

In this Talk

Yuji Agematsu

Portrait drawing of Yuji Agematsu by Phong H. Bui

Born in Kanagawa, Japan, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Agematsu studied with Tokio Hasegawa, a member of the band Taj Mahal Travellers, and the jazz drummer and choreographer Milford Graves. He has had solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2017 & 2019), Contemporary Art Centre (2019), Lulu (2019), the Power Station (2018), Artspeak (2014), Real Fine Arts (2012 & 2014), Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2004), and TZ’Art & Co. (1994). His performances have taken place at the Swiss Institute (2018), Artists Space (2017), and as part of the solo presentation Walk on A, B, C, organized by Jay Sanders for the Whitney Museum of American Art (2016). In February, 2021, Agematsu will mount a solo exhibition at The Secession, Vienna, featuring a full year of his well-known Zip works.

Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes, a co-editor of the Artseen section for the Brooklyn Rail, has also contributed to its pages for over a decade. Her writing has also featured in BOMB, Hyperallergic, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair Spain, among many others, and has been included in over two dozen exhibition catalogues and monographs. Previously, Jessica worked for the Calder Foundation for nearly two decades, including six years as its Deputy Director.

https://www.jessicaholmeswriter.com

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 🌈✨