EventsThe New Social Environment#333

Janaina Tschäpe with David Rhodes

Friday, July 2, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Janaina Tschäpe joins artist and writer David Rhodes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sarah Jean Grimm.

In this Talk

Janaina Tschäpe

Photo by Eduardo Ortega

Artist Janaina Tschäpe lives and works in New York. She will be part of a two-person exhibition with Ursula Reuter Christiansen opening at the Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen on June 25, 2021 through September 5, 2021 and a solo show at Sean Kelly Gallery opening on June 26, 2021 through August 9, 2021. Tschäpe’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida; Musée L’Orangerie, Paris, France; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona; Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; and the Contemporary Museum of Art, St Louis.

http://www.janainatschape.net/

David Rhodes

New York-based artist and writer David Rhodes is originally from Manchester, UK. His most recent solo exhibition Aletheia was at High Noon Gallery, New York in January 2024. His paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Huntington Museum, Los Angeles, among others. He has published catalog essays for Michael Werner Gallery, New York, Karma Gallery, New York and Museum Ludwig, Köln. He is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail.

https://www.davidrhodes.net/

Patricia Nicholson Parker

Photo by Ken Weiss

Artistic and community organizer and dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker is steeped in the aesthetic of free jazz with an attention to spiritual and social responsibility. In 1981, she choreographed and organized “A Thousand Cranes Peace Opera,” with 1,000 children performing in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza for the opening of the Special Sessions on Disarmament; in the mid- and late-1980s, she responded to a lack of visibility for free jazz by helping to organize the Sound Unity Festivals. In 1996, she founded Arts for Art (AFA) and the Vision Festival to promote and advocate for free jazz, raising awareness through this notable and uncommonly visible platform. Since then, AFA has grown to be a movement that supports hundreds of artists annually working with the free jazz aesthetic.

George Grella

George Grella has been the Brooklyn Rail’s music editor since 2013. He has played jazz, classical, and improvisational music from CBGB to Carnegie Hall, has written about music and culture for over thirty years for print and online publications, and has contributed to the Grove Dictionary of Music, the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, the Financial Times, The Wire, Bandcamp, VAN, Music & Literature, The New York Classical Review, The Strad, The New York Times, and others. He publishes the Kill Yr Idols newsletter, and is the author of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew (Bloomsbury 2015).

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 🌈✨