If you lived here, you’d be home by now
Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series
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In a talk exploring longing and belonging, essayist and writer Jennifer Kabat explores how language, history and art – even the birds in her backyard, inform her work on contemporary art
and culture.
Moving from the rural landscape of upstate New York to drones, technology and social media through to Greek mythology and the steel plates covering holes in New York City streets, Kabat searches for meaning in the present by opening up the gaps in history. Her essays and criticism pull equally from the contemporary art-world to the small-town community to ask questions about how we look at both.
Jennifer Kabat was recently awarded a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism and contributed to The Believer, BOMB, Frieze and Metropolis, among other publications. For Arnolfini, Bristol’s International Centre for Contemporary Arts she created an essay-as-ghost story, The Place of the Bridge, which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A recent finalist for Notting Hill Edition’s biannual essay prize, she teaches at New York University, School of Visual Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Biography
Jennifer Kabat
Writer and Essayist
Jennifer Kabat was recently awarded a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism, and contributes to The Believer, BOMB, Frieze and Metropolis, among
other publications.
For Arnolfini, Bristol’s International Centre for Contemporary Arts she created an essay-as-ghost story, The Place of the Bridge, which was nominated for a Pushcart.
She teaches at NYU, SVA and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. One of the winners of Notting Hill Editions’ biennial essay prize, she has contributed to books on artists including recently: I’m with Her: Rochelle Feinstein (Black Dog), Kate Newby: Let the Other Thing (Sternberg Press), The Record, Contemporary Art and Vinyl (Duke University Press), and in conversation with Rochelle Feinstein in the 2014 Whitney Biennial catalogue. She has chaired panels on art, AIDS and activism and lectured on Isa Genzken’s work.
She did graduate work in art history at Columbia University, was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, supported by a grant from the British government. A co-founder of the essay site The Weeklings, she is working on a book called Growing Up Modern, exploring art, architecture, war and the landscape. The January February March, her collaborative series of site-responsive writing and installations with poet Anna Moschovakis and artist Kate Newby, will be the subject of a solo show at the Poor Farm in rural Wisconsin in 2016.
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Oct. 21, 2016― 6 to 7 PM
Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series:
'If you lived here, you’d be home by now' by Jennifer Kabat
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