EventsThe New Social Environment#736
Baseera Khan: Weight on History
Featuring Khan and Zoë Hopkins, with Manal Kara
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Baseera Khan joins Rail contributor Zoë Hopkins for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Manal Kara.
In this Talk
Baseera Khan
Baseera Khan is a New York-based performance, sculpture, and installation artist who makes work to discuss materials and their economies, labor, family structures, religion, and spiritual well being. Khan is currently working on a public art commission on The High Line for fall 2023 and is an adjunct professor of sculpture, performance, and critical theory. Khan mounted their first museum solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2021-22), and opened their first solo touring exhibition at Moody Arts Center for the Arts, Rice University (2022-2023). Khan’s performance work has premiered at several locations including Whitney Museum of American Art, and Art POP Montreal International Music Festival. Their work is published in 4Columns, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.
Zoë Hopkins
Zoë Hopkins is a writer and critic based in New York. She received her BA in Art History and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is currently working on her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University. Her writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Cultured and Hyperallergic.
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 🌈✨