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Synthesis of the Arts: 'T' Space Rhinebeck
Featuring Steven Holl, George Quasha, Eirini Tsachrelia, Susan Wides, and Phong H. Bui
Thursday, May 19, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Board Member Steven Holl and Curator and Director Susan Wides from ‘T’ Space Rhinebeck join Phong H. Bui for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Mia Ayumi Malhotra.
In this Talk
Steven Holl

Architect Steven Holl has published numerous texts and has lectured widely. He is a tenured faculty member at Columbia University where he has taught since 1981. He was named by Time magazine as “America’s Best Architect,” for creating “buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye.” Steven Holl Architects is a 28-person innovative architecture and urban design office working between New York City and Beijing. Steven Holl Architects projects combine sustainable technology and forward-looking approaches to urbanism and architecture, and see a sustainable approach to design and construction as an obligation to the future of the built environment and are committed to this vision in each project. He is the founder of ‘T’ Space, a project of the Steven Myron Holl Foundation.
George Quasha

Poet, artist, musician and writer George Quasha works in diverse mediums to explore certain principles (e.g., axiality, ecoproprioception). For his primary medium poiesis he has invented the genre preverbs as a medium of axial language and “linguality at zero point.” There are thirteen books of preverbs to date of which seven published, most recently Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole (2020) and Waking from Myself (2022). Among some thirty published books is Poetry in Principle: Essays in Poetics (2019). Soon to appear is Zero Point Poiesis: George Quasha’s Axial Art, a collection of writings on his poetry, art and thought by sixteen authors, edited by Burt Kimmelman, foreword by Jerome McGann.
Eirini Tsachrelia

Int’l Associate AIA Eirini Tsachrelia has taught at Parsons School of Constructed Environments, New York City College of Technology, and the Spitzer School of Architecture. Eirini is Director of Educational Programs at ‘T’ Space, where she has instructed the Summer Architecture Residency since 2017, when she co-developed the program. Currently she is co-curating Pamphlet Architecture Visions and Experiments in Architecture in 2022. Eirini has curated exhibitions in Greece and New York. She received her Diploma in architecture with honors from Patras University, School of Architecture in Greece, and her M.S Degree in Advanced Architectural Design with honors from GSAPP Columbia University. She is a WELL AP and Living Future Accredited Professional.
Susan Wides

Susan Wides, the Curator and Director of ‘T’ Space, has curated over 30 exhibitions as well as their poetry, music performances, exhibition texts, and publications since 2010. Wides is a photo-based artist—nature and perception are driving forces of her work. She uses the language of the lens and its conceptual, psychological, and formal dimensions to create abstract, hybrid photographic spaces fused with an ecologically driven representation. Over 25 solo exhibitions of Wides’ work include a survey at The Hudson River Museum, The Center for Creative Photography, PS122, The Samuel Dorsky Museum, and the storied Galerie Urbi et Orbi in Paris. Her work resides in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, ICP, among many others and is widely published.
Phong H. Bui

Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.
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 🌈✨