Talk | Notes in the Margins: “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body'”

Edlis Neeson Theater

Artists Gordon Hall, B. Ingrid Olson, and Aliza Shvarts collaborate with MCA Associate Curator Jadine Collingwood and visiting curator Mariana Fernández on an expanded performance-lecture drawing from themes in Descending the Staircase. In a departure from the standard form of the public lecture, participants engage in a live response to issues around visibility and difference prompted by Hall’s 2020 essay “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body’: A Polemic.” Hall shares their original text with interruptions and interjections from the respondents, treating the essay as an invitation for collaborative thinking around uses of “the body” in contemporary art.

This talk is organized by visiting curator Mariana Fernández as part of the MCA DNA Research Initiative, which supports new short-term research projects examining the MCA Collection.

ASL interpretation and English CART captioning are provided for this talk.

Price: Free

Event URL: https://experience.mcachicago.org/6789/6790