Join us for a virtual conversation with contributors from X-TRA Fall/Winter to celebrate the issue and Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVBF).
Artist NIC Kay, writer Georgia Lassner, and artist/educator Jennifer Bornstein will talk with moderator artist and X-TRA editor Neha Choksi.
They will explore themes focused on the body—its hauntings, and the impact of collective and personal histories on various kinds of bodies. This is a theme drawn out in different ways by each of their contributions to the current issue.
Details
Saturday, February 27th
1pm – 2:30pm PST
Live Zoom w/Q&A
The event is free, RSVP required for link.
REGISTER HERE
About the Speakers
NIC Kay is from the Bronx. They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. Their work choreographically highlights and meditates on Black life in relation ship to space, social structures, and architecture through centering embodied practices.
Read NIC’s conversation with curator and writer Jareh Das.
Jennifer Bornstein is an artist who lives in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at University of California, Irvine.
Read Jennifer’s essay reflecting on eBay photography as genre, and the role her step-mother played in her research.
Georgia Lassner has been contributing to X-TRA since 2018. She is the author of UNPUBLISHED, an ongoing blog featuring deep-dive texts into the work of unsung artists.
Read Georgia’s review of the “The Body, The Object, The Other” at Craft Contemporary.
Neha Choksi is an artist and a member of X-TRA’s editorial board.