EventsThe New Social Environment#354
Time Motion: Ari Marcopoulos with Robert Slifkin and Chuck Smith
Monday, August 2, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist, filmmaker, and photographer Ari Marcopoulos joins writer Robert Slifkin and filmmaker Chuck Smith for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Laura Henrikson.
In this Talk
Ari Marcopoulos
Born in Amsterdam in 1957, Ari Marcopoulos is an artist, filmmaker, and photographer that has lived and worked in New York since 1980. He has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Berkeley Art Museum in California, MoMA PS1 in New York, among many others. Marcopoulos participated in two Whitney Biennials (2008, 2010) and his photographs are in collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Orleans Museum of Art, and Detroit Institute of Arts. His films include the documentary Larry Wright and Key to the Riddle, a documentary on the artist Forrest Bess.
Robert Slifkin
Writer and scholar Robert Slifkin is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His most recent book is The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945-1975 (Princeton University Press, 2019).
Chuck Smith
Filmmaker, TV producer, and writer Chuck Smith has produced documentaries and TV series for National Geographic, Discovery, CBS News, and many others. His films include Barbara Rubin: the Exploding NY Underground (2019) and Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle (1999). The Bess film was turned into a book and published in 2013 by PowerHouse Books. Mr. Smith’s other independent films and interviews can be found on his YouTube Channel ChuckSmithNYC and on Vimeo.
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 🌈✨