As part of the exhibition\, State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970\, at the Belkin Art Gallery\, Eleanor Antin will give a performative reading of chapters from Conversations with Stalin.
Eleanor Antin is a major figure in the history of feminist art\, who works in a va riety of media\, including photography\, video\, film\, performance\, insta llation\, drawing and writing. She has had many one-woman exhibitions\, inc luding the Museum of Modern Art\, the Whitney Museum and a major retrospect ive at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Her works are in many co
llections around the world including the Beaubourg\, Tate Modern\, MOMA\, t
he Whitney\, the Art Institute of Chicago\, and the Loeb Family Foundation.
She has performed around the world including the Venice Biennale\, Documen
ta 12\, and the Sydney Opera House. Her cult feature film The Man Witho
ut a World (1991) was screened at many festivals among them Berlin\, U
SA\, London and San Francisco and had art house commercial distribution. Sh
e is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts\, New York City. Her many awar
ds include an Honorary Doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Ch
icago (2009) and a Lifetime Achievement award from the Woman’s Caucus of th
e College Art Association (2006). Antin is an emeritus professor of Visual
Arts at the University of California at San Diego.
“I was what was cal
led in the days of the old left\, a red diaper baby. My mother was a Stalin
ist and though I had a father\, nobody ever listened to him because he was
just a socialist and everybody knew they were wimps. It was hard in those d
ays\, Senator McCarthy was putting people in jail\, people were losing thei
r jobs\, but we were strong because we always knew what was right. Comrade
Stalin told us. Or he would have told us if he wasn’t so far away…These are
my recollections\, more or less\, about growing up with the many romantic\
, economic and psychological problems young people face in our country and
how by the end of the day\, Comrade Stalin always solved my problems in his
own inimitable way\, by fucking them up.” (Conversations with Stalin)
Antin’s memoir is a smart\, no-holds- barred\, black comedy in the picares
que coming of age tradition of Holden Caulfield\, Huck Finn\, Little Orphan
Annie\, and the irrepressible Dorothy on the road to Oz. Impatient with th
e timidity of the current publishing world (as long ago she was turned off
by the art world gallery system and chose to send her 100 BOOTS directly to
the public through the mail) Antin is bringing her new memoir directly to
the public through a series of performance readings in museums\, art spaces
and universities.
A conversation between Michael Morris and Eleanor A
ntin will follow Antin's performance. Though they have never met in person\
, in the early 1970s Morris and Antin were actively engaged in The Image Ba
nk\, a system of postal correspondence between artists for the exchange of
information and ideas.
This event is free and open to the public.
http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/events/eleanor-antin-reading-performance
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