The New Social Environment#70
Adam McEwen with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Featuring McEwen and Goodeve
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1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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Artist Adam McEwen joins Rail Editor-at-Large Thyrza Nichols Goodeve for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Chris Martin.
In this talk
Adam McEwen
Adam McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and funereal. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph in London, he began producing obituaries of living subjects such as Bill Clinton and Jeff Koons, highlighting the blurred line between history and fiction. As a meditation on the many lives and deaths of art, he has created a space that conflates a beleaguered present with the afterlife of a potent and contentious moment in art history. McEwen’s dead zone of dark relics and faded memories confronts us, literally and metaphysically, with the filthy lucre of our past and present. McEwen was born in in London and currently lives and works in New York City.
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer, editor, and educator who lives in Brooklyn Heights. She was Senior Art Editor at the Rail from 2017 to 2019 and is currently an Editor-at-Large.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Chris Martin reading.
Chris Martin
Chris Martin is a neurodivergent poet and educator whose fourth book of poetry, Things to Do in Hell, is fresh from Coffee House Press. His first book of essays, May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future is out from HarperOne. He is the co-founder and executive director of Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to helping neurodivergent learners transform their lives through writing. He lives in Minneapolis, where he also teaches at Hamline University and Carleton College.
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