Presence, Performance, and Pregnancy | Essay for The Chart

Added on by Jacquelyn Gleisner.

Last summer I spent one week in Maine as the 2019 Critic in Residence for The Chart, an online arts journal “dedicated to tenderness, visibility, and urgency in arts writing.” I met with artists throughout the state of Maine in their studios. I also participated in John Coleman’s CURING: FORTH with more than a dozen artists, musicians, educators, and performers. I wrote an essay combining my memories of this event with reflections on my pregnancy and performance art.

Read the text here.

Still from Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, 1964.

Still from Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, 1964.