Queer Protest: No Idle Gesture
Select Fridays, 7:30 pm
2018
Installation view of An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 18, 2017–). From left to right, top to bottom: Vincent Gagliostro and Avram Finkelstein, Enjoy AZT, 1989; Joseph Wolin, Tom Starace, and Richard Deagle, American Flag, 1989; John Ahearn, Andrew Castrucci, John “Crash” Matos, Chris “Daze” Ellis, Jane Dickson, Jenny Holzer, Gary Simmons, and Martin Wong, The Usual Suspects, 1996; Barbara Kruger, (Girl don’t die for love), 1992; John Giorno, The world is getting empty…, 1993; Donald Moffett, He Kills Me, 1987; Kay Rosen, AIDS, 1994; Frank Moore, trial proof and study for the poster FACE IT—LICK IT, 1992; Gran Fury, (Men use condoms or beat it), 1988; Glenn Ligon, (Who will keep their dreams alive if we don’t wake up to reality?), 1992; Sue Coe, Aids and the Federal Government, 1990. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
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Floor 6
Join us for Queer Protest: No Idle Gesture, a free tour exploring gender, sexuality and LGBTQ perspectives in An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017. Tours are offered on the last Friday evening of the month at 7:30 pm.
April 27
Josh Lubin-Levy
May 25
Aliza Shvarts
June 22
Josh Lubin-Levy
Josh Lubin-Levy is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow and PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. His dissertation, Uncollectible: Jack Smith and Performing the ‘Hatred of Capitalism, explores the intersection of collection and dematerialization in the postwar period. For the past ten years he has worked as a dance dramaturgy and performance curator and he recently joined the faculty at Bard College as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Theater and Performance.
Aliza Shvarts is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. Her doctoral dissertation, The Doom Performative, explores queer and feminist performance practices. Shvarts is a practicing artist and her work has appeared at MoMA PS1 and the Tate Modern. Her writing has appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, and The Brooklyn Rail.
