EventsThe New Social Environment#520

Mel Bochner: I STILL DON'T GET IT

Featuring Bochner and Amanda Gluibizzi

Monday, March 21, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Mel Bochner joins Rail Artseen Editor Amanda Gluibizzi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Mark Leidner.

In this Talk

Visit Mel Bochner: I STILL DON'T GET IT, on view at TOTAH through April 16, 2022 →

Mel Bochner

Artist Mel Bochner is considered a pioneer of the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. Bochner is best known for his exploration of connections between language, perception, and meaning. He will be the subject of a forthcoming retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, drawing from the museum’s significant collection of Bochner works. His works can be found in collections around the world including the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York.

http://www.melbochner.net/

Amanda Gluibizzi

Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 2021).

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 🌈✨