EventsThe New Social Environment#594
We Are But One: Breyer P-Orridge
Featuring Benjamin Tischer, Clarity Haynes, Lia Gangitano, Scott Treleaven, Ryan Martin, Genesse P-Orridge, and Ksenia Soboleva.
Friday, July 1, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Curators Lia Gangitano and Benjamin Tischer, artists Clarity Haynes, Scott Treleaven, Ryan Martin, and Genesse P-Orridge join Rail contributor Ksenia Soboleva for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by El Roy Red.
Benjamin Tischer

Formerly co-owner of the gallery INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, Benjamin Tischer is an independent curator, art advisor, and private dealer operating under the moniker New Discretions. New Discretions works with the estates of BREYER P-ORRIDGE, Stephen Irwin, Bob Mizer, and Alan Vega, as well as working with living artists such as Tom Bianchi, Vaginal Davis, Paul Gabrielli, Clarity Haynes, Cary Leibowitz, Matthew Porter, Gabriela Vainsencher, and Marianne Vitale.
Lia Gangitano

In 2001, Lia Gangitano founded PARTICIPANT INC, NY, a not-for-profit art space of which she is now the director. She has served as curator of Thread Waxing Space, NY, associate curator, The ICA, Boston, and curatorial advisor, MoMA PS1. She is a recipient of Skowhegan Governors’ Award for Outstanding Service to Artists (2015), the inaugural White Columns/Shoot the Lobster Award (2016), and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2018). She teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Clarity Haynes

Born 1971 in McAllen, Texas, and based in Brooklyn, NY, and upstate New York, Clarity Haynes is known for her long-standing explorations of the torso as a site for painted portraiture. Works in her Breast/Chest Portrait Project, always painted from life and usually monumental in scale, have focused on themes of healing, trauma, and self-determination. Feminist and queer craft practices are often honored in her work. Bright colors, lively compositions and multiple narratives conjoin in the depictions of both bodies and altars. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, New Discretions, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and many others. Her work has been discussed in publications like Hyperallergic and Artnews, among others.
Scott Treleaven

Artist Scott Treleaven first came to attention in the early 90s through a series of influential zines and short films. Since then Treleaven has continued to explore transcendental currents running through painting, photography and a variety of other media. Exhibitions include Cooper Cole, Toronto; XYZ Collective, Tokyo; MOCA Tucson, Arizona; Unit 17, Vancouver; Invisible-Exports, New York; 80WSE, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and ICA Philadelphia among others. Treleaven’s publications are included in historical overviews such as In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 (JRP|Ringier 2009), _The Magazine – Documents of Contemporary Art Series _(MIT Press 2015), and Showboat: Punk, Sex, Bodies (Dashwood 2016).
Ryan Martin

Co-founder of American independent record label Dais Records, Ryan Martin is Vice President at The Estate of Genesis P-Orridge. Dais Records was founded in 2007 and is operated out of Los Angeles and New York. The label focuses on both the new and the old: maintaining a roster of emerging, influential artists while concurrently seeking out rare, forgotten and lost recordings to reissue for a modern audience.
Genesse P-Orridge

The daughter of performer Genesis P-Orridge, Genesse P-Orridge is a contributor to Breyer P-Orridge: We Are But One at Pioneer Works. She constructed a sanctuary called "Altared State" for the exhibition as an homage to Genesis.
Ksenia M. Soboleva

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Ursula Magazine, Cultured, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history, and an art historical approach to autobiography. She is currently completing her book manuscript What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories. Soboleva teaches at NYU.
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 🌈✨