Alhena Katsof
Ph.D. Candidate
Alhena Katsof is a writer who organizes exhibitions and performances in conversation with artists. Her collaborative projects include the film commission and exhibition Telepathic Improvisation with Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz and Towards the Unknown, a touring exhibition of drawings, scores, and graphic notations by the autophysiopsychic musician Yusef Lateef. The performances she created with Dana Yahalomi, Director of Public Movement, have been staged at venues including the Santarcangelo Festival, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. With Yahalomi, Katsof co-authored the book Solution 263: Double Agent (Sternberg Press). Her performance-lectures about gardens have been presented at the Center for Experimental Lectures, Rongwrong, and Bridget Donahue Gallery. With Karen Kelley and Barbara Schroeder, Katsof co-edited and contributed to Andrea Geyer: Dance in a Future with All Present (Dancing Foxes Press and PICA), and she has written catalog essays about artists including Polly Apfelbaum, Nicole Eisenman, and Gordon Hall. Elsewhere, Katsof's writing has been published in volumes including On the Necessity of Gardening (Valiz Publishing), The Artist As Curator: An Anthology (Mousse Publishing), and How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse (MIT Press). Katsof has taught at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Rhode Island School of Design, and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. She is a member of the editorial collective Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory and is pursuing a PhD in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.