Signs & Grips: a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Simone Leigh
Please join the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and the Department of Performance Studies for Signs & Grips: a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Simone Leigh, in conversation with Performance Studies Assistant Professor Malik Gaines
WHEN: March 6, 2018 | 6pm - 8pm
WHERE: Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor
Simone Leigh’s practice is an object-based on-going exploration of black female subjectivity. She creates sculpture, videos and installations that are informed by her interest in African art, ethnographic research, feminism and performance. In this talk, Leigh discusses her work, Signs and Grips (on view at the New Museum’s 2017 show Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon) with NYU performance studies scholar Malik Gaines. Leigh and Gaines situate this latest work in light of the questions that have long concerned Leigh about race and reproduction, black women’s collective labor, organizing, and strategies for self-defense.
Simone Leigh is a recipient of the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2017), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2016), Herb Alpert Award for Visual Art (2016), and A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art (2016). She has also been the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award (2013), Creative Capital Grant (2012), LMCC Michael Richards Award (2012), and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Sculpture (2011). Recent projects and exhibitions include Trigger: Gender as a Tool and as a Weapon (2017) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Psychic Friends Network (2016) at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London; The Waiting Room (2016) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Free People’s Medical Clinic (2014) a project commissioned by Creative Time; inHarlem, a public installation presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem at Marcus Garvey Park, New York; and a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
This event is free & open to the public. Venue is accessible. For more information, please contact NYU CSGS at csgs@nyu.edu or 212-992-9540.
Co-Sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Contemporary Art Research Collaborative; Department of Art and Art Professions; Department of Art History; Department of Performance Studies; and Institute of Fine Arts.