EventsThe New Social Environment#1041

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

Featuring Glenn Adamson, Kate Wiener, Leilehua Lanzilotti, and Christina Yang

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curators Glenn Adamson and Kate Wiener and composer Leilehua Lanzilotti join scholar Christina Yang for a conversation.

In this Talk

Visit Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, on view at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York →

Glenn Adamson

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Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. The author most recently of A Century of Tomorrows (Bloomsbury, 2024), he is currently Curator at Large for the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, Artistic Director for Design Doha - a biennial festival in Qatar - and editor of Material Intelligence, a quarterly online journal published by the Chipstone Foundation. Current curatorial projects include Hella Jongerius: Whispering Things for the Vitra Design Museum and Keith Haring in 3D for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. 

Leilehua Lanzilotti

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Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, and curator. A “leading composer–performer” (The New York Times), Lanzilotti’s work is characterized by expansive explorations of timbre. Lanzilotti’s practice explores radical indigenous contemporaneity by integrating community engagement and ways of knowing into the heart of projects. Lanzilotti was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for with eyes the color of time, which the Pulitzer committee called, “a vibrant composition … that distinctly combines experimental string textures and episodes of melting lyricism.” Dr. Lanzilotti also served as the Curator of Music at EMPAC from 2019–21.

Kate Wiener

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Photo by Justin Raul Baez
Kate Wiener is a Curator at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York, where she is involved with exhibitions, public programs, and publications. Recent curatorial projects at The Noguchi Museum include A Glorious Bewilderment: Marie Menken’s ‘Visual Variations on Noguchi’ (2023–24), and the co-organized exhibitions Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within (2024), Noguchi Subscapes (2022–23), and Noguchi’s Memorials to the Atomic Dead (2021). She has contributed to numerous publications, including Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within (Yale University Press, 2024), Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi (Giles, 2022), and Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (New Museum, 2017).

    Christina Yang

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    Christina Yang is Executive Director of AAMC Foundation as well as an independent curator based in New York and Williamstown. She specializes in spectatorship, politics of the image, experimental genres, and feminist care. She has been a curator at The Kitchen, Queens and Guggenheim Museums, as well at Williams College and UC Berkeley. She teaches in SVA’s Masters Program in Curatorial Practice. She participated in Asia Art Archive in America’s 2024 Leadership Camp led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew. She received her Ph.D in performance studies from NYU in 2025. 

    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 🌈✨

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