Recorded on Saturday, September 17, 2016 at the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, held at MoMA PS1, New York City, part of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair.
A lecture, a talk, and a live reading on and around the photo-mechanical image.
Artists-writers perform discursive art pieces, revisiting the formats of the conference and literary reading to creatively and critically investigate the relationship between text and image. Jenny Perlin with her lecture Twilight Arc discusses the history of the color organ and how it has influenced contemporary cinema and her own filmic practice. In a performance based on his essay Matter of Rothko, David Levine addresses the personal and artistic consequences of his father’s involvement with the Rothko Estate scandal. Marcelline Delbecq presents Vies Immobiles, a live reading accompanied by a slide show of an imaginary book of illustrations exploring the arrested existence of animals in various still lives. Moderated by Béatrice Gross.
