Andrea Fraser In Conversation

Andrea Fraser speaks with Malik Gaines about her uses of performance, from her influential institutional critique works to recent re-performances of historical texts in “Men on the Line” (2012), taken from a 1972 radio conversation among movement men about feminism, and “Not Just a Few of Us” (2014), which re-enacts a 1991 New Orleans city council hearing discussing Mardi Gras and segregation.

Andrea Fraser is an artist whose work has been identified with feminism, performance, context art, services, and institutional critique. Retrospectives of her work have been presented, most recently, by the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2013) and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2015), and are upcoming at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona and MUAC UNAM in Mexico City (2016). Her books include Andrea Fraser: Works 1984-2003 (Dumont, 2003); Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser (MIT Press, 2005); and Texts, Scripts, Transcripts (Museum Ludwig, 2013) and Andrea Fraser(Cantz, 2015). She is Professor of New Genres at the University of California Los Angeles and Visiting Faculty at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.

Malik Gaines is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies, NYU.