[-empyre-] please welcome Virginia Solomon and Emily Roysdon

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dear -empyreans-

A pleasure to introduce  Virginia Solomon and Emily Roysdon for our  
discussion 'Queer Relational.'   Virginia works from a curatorial and  
art historical perspective
on queer theory and art practices; she is based in New York City.    
Virginia is chairing a panel next winter with Robert Summers for the  
Queer
Caucus for Art at College Art Association.  Emily Roysdon is a very  
active artist, writer and editor,  also in New York  Please welcome  
them both.

-christina

More details:

Virginia Solomon is an art historian and critic completing a doctorate  
at the University of Southern California, specializing in modern and  
contemporary art, culture and politics. Her dissertation considers the  
work of Canadian artist group General Idea as an archive of queer  
avant-garde art practices in the context of an evolving conversation  
concerning the relationship between politics and subjectivity. Other  
interests include feminist theory, cultural studies and visual  
studies. Virginia was a Helena Rubensteinfellow at the Whitney  
Independent Study Program for the 2007/2008 academic year and is a  
2009/2010 Canadian art research fellow at the National Gallery of  
Canada. She has published and given public talks on queer and feminist  
art and cultural politics, and was a co-curator of the recently closed  
Tainted Love, a group show that considers love as a political tactic  
in art after 1987. The show was produced for Visual Aids at the newly  
reopened La Mama Galleria http://www.lamama.org/  in New York City.


Emily Roysdon is a New York and Stockholm based interdisciplinary  
artist and writer. Her work is invested in language, memory,  
collectivity and the processes of history and she uses video,  
photography, text, and performance to that aim. She is editor and co- 
founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR.  
Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali  
Foundation (Vienna); New Museum (NY); Power Plant (Toronto); and  
Studio Voltaire (London). Her videos have been screened at Whitechapel  
Gallery (London); Arsenal: Institut fur Film and Videokunst (Berlin);  
The Kitchen (NY); and at the International Short Film Festival  
Oberhausen. Her writings have been published in numerous books and  
magazines, including Cabinet Magazine, the Journal of Aesthetics and  
Protest, and Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory.  
Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001  
and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. For six months in 2008  
she was a resident at the International Artists Studio Program in  
Sweden (IASPIS). She is a recipient of a 2008 Art Matters grant and  
2009 Franklin Furnace grant. She is currently curating an exhibition  
on 'ecstatic resistance' at Grand Arts.   http:// 
www.emilyroysdon.com/  http://www.lttr.org/






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