EventsThe New Social Environment#685
Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River
Featuring Leonard, Tim Johnson, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, and Esther Gabara, with Josephine Shokrian
Monday, November 7, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Zoe Leonard joins Marfa Book Company’s Tim Johnson, Rail Editor-at-Large Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Rail contributor Esther Gabara for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Josephine Shokrian.
Zoe Leonard
New York-based artist Zoe Leonard balances rigorous conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision in her work, which merges photography, sculpture, and installation. By employing strategies of repetition, shifting perspectives, and a multitude of printing processes, Leonard’s practice probes the politics of representation and display. Leonard explores themes such as gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement, and the urban landscape. Her photography specifically invites us to contemplate the role that the medium plays in constructing history, and to consider the roots of contemporary photographic culture.
Tim Johnson
Based in Texas, Tim Johnson manages Marfa Book Company, a book store, art gallery, and music venue.
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer, editor, and educator who lives in Brooklyn Heights. She was Senior Art Editor at the Rail from 2017 to 2019 and is currently an Editor-at-Large.
Esther Gabara
Professor Esther Gabara works in the Departments of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She was curator and editor of the exhibition and accompanying catalog Pop América, 1965–1975. She is the author of Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (Duke UP, 2008) and Non-Literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism (Chicago UP, 2022).
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 🌈✨