The New Social Environment#67

Fausta Squatriti with Choghakate Kazarian

Featuring Squatriti and Kazarian

 

1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Graphic artist and writer Fausta Squatriti joins Rail contributor Choghakate Kazarian for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Alli Warren.

In this talk

Fausta Squatriti

Fausta Squatriti headshot
Since the early 1960s, Fausta Squatriti’s research has been divided between the visual arts and writing. She has exhibited her work in Italy and more frequently abroad, where she was also intensively engaged as a publisher of graphic art and mutlimedia between 1964 and 1986.

Choghakate Kazarian

A portrait of Choghakate Kazarian
Portrait of Choghakate Kazarian by Phong H. Bui
Choghakate Kazarian is a curator and art historian based in New York City. Her interests are focused on artistic processes and the interaction between biography and artistic practice. She has curated several exhibitions on artists such as Henry Darger, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Karel Appel. She has edited several exhibition catalogues and published on artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Louis Michel Eilshemius, Stéphane Mandelbaum among others. She has a MA in art history from Ecole du Louvre and a MA in philosophy at La Sorbonne. She was a curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2011 — 2018. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute of Art with a dissertation on the American artist Albert Pinkham Ryder.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Alli Warren reading.

Alli Warren

Portrait of poet Alli Warren.
Alli Warren is the author of Sundial (Nion Editions, 2021), Little Hill (City Lights, 2020), I Love It Though (Nightboat Books, 2017), and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights, 2013), as well as over ten chapbooks. Winner of the Poetry Center Book Award, and twice a finalist for the California Book Award, her writing has appeared in many venues, including Critical Quarterly, Feminist Formations, Harper’s, and Poetry. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.

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