QT (Queer Text) Featuring Cynthia Carr and Jaime Shearn Coan
About This Show
Critical encounters with LGBTQ artists and writers.
Curated by Marissa Perel.
About the Artists
Cynthia Carr is the author of three books, most recently Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (2012). Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2006) and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (1993). Carr chronicled the work of contemporary artists as a Village Voice writer (with the byline C.Carr) in the 1980s and 1990s. Her work has also appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, TDR: The Drama Review, and other publications. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. She is at work on a biography of Candy Darling.
Jaime Shearn Coan is a writer and PhD student at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His writings on dance can be found frequently in The Brooklyn Rail. His poetry chapbook, Turn it Over, was published by Argos Books in April 2015.
Marissa Perel is a Brooklyn based artist and writer. Her interdisciplinary work includes performance, installation, criticism and curatorial projects. Her installations and performances have been shown throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her chapbook, “Angry Ocean,” was published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. In her line of inquiry, Perel asks, “How do we move across space and time with respect to our collected histories?” Her criticism engages this question at the convergence of the fields of contemporary art and performance. She originated the column, “Gimme Shelter: Performance Now” for Art21 Magazine and edited Critical Correspondence, the on-line dance and performance journal of Movement Research. She also pursues this question in her curatorial work, seeking to bring visibility to a multitude of forms and discourses. She has curated performances, panels and talks at such venues as the New Museum, New York Live Arts and at the Aux Performance Space at Vox Populi.