EventsThe New Social Environment#780

Jimmy DeSana: Submission

Featuring Drew Sawyer and Jill H. Casid, with Ry Dunn

Monday, April 3, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Curator Drew Sawyer joins Visual Studies scholar Jill H. Casid for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Ry Dunn.

In this Talk

Visit Jimmy DeSana: Submission, on view at the Brooklyn Museum through April 16, 2023 →

Drew Sawyer

Drew Sawyer is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum where he has curated and co-curated several shows, including Jimmy DeSana: Submission, John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance, and Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha. He has previously held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, where he co-organized the award-winning historical survey, Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989. Other exhibitions include Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston, Allan Sekula: Aerospace Folktales and Other Stories, and Lucy Raven: Low Relief. Sawyer holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University, and is a regular contributor to publications including Artforum, Aperture, Mousse, and Osmos.

Jill H. Casid

Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein

An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the appointment of Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is bringing to completion Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is in Spanish translation (Metales Pesados, 2022), and the co-edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014). Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

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 🌈✨