Come join us for a celebration of
Women & Performance: The Transbiological Body
Wednesday, March 9th
721 Broadway, Tisch School of the Arts, 6th floor studio
6:30 - 8:30pm
Featuring a performance by Yve Laris Cohen
We hope to see you there!
Nina Katchadourian
Mended Spiderweb #8 (1998)
Cibachrome, 20x20 inches
Women & Performance (Special Issue) “The Transbiological Body”
“David Quammen counsels that we cannot easily identify with spiders, at best we are curious and at worse we are disturbed, but we do find kinship with this spider building its home in our home while we are doing the same (1998). It is this abjected nearness that Nina Katchadourian engages in her “Mended Spiderweb” series. With red thread, Katchadourian repairs torn webbing, mixing media to create cross-species rejoinders.”
- Eva Hayward “Spider City Self”
Emmett Ramstad Becoming 2007. Handmade flax paper and cotton thread.
“Walking through and among the suspended, hollow forms, visitors in the gallery meet the fibrous, paper skins as another surface, another body coming into contact. In this encounter the viewer is transformed into a participant, another body in the installation of unknowable forms and formations, the handmade assemblage invites a bodily reorganization and non-predictive engagement with processes of labor and becoming. The aesthetic experience that Ramstad cultivates in his work puts to practice the Deleuzian notions of surface and fold, making of them not merely conceptual or topological points, but material processes.”
(Excerpt from Jeanne Vaccaro’s essay “Felt Matters” in Women & Performance’s special issue “The Transbiological Body”)
Welcome to the Women & Performance tumblr! We are thrilled to begin our tumbling career with these excerpts from our special issue called “The Transbiological Body,” curated by Jeanne Vaccaro. The following images and short excerpts are from this latest work, though in the future we will also treat you to parts of our wonderful archive.
To learn more about us, please go to our website: http://www.womenandperformance.org
