Saturday, Nov 8, 2025 (Club B10)
An in-conversation about Belly of a Glacier, an experimental film and photographic installation reflecting on practices of care and mourning around the soon-to-disappear Rhône Glacier. Friends from Boston, the Berkshires, and beyond were welcomed.
Included in the catalogue Isaac Julien: I Dream a World (Thames & Hudson), publication date 2025.
Included in the catalogue Eleanor Antin: Works (1965–2017) for the 2025 exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg
Catalogue info: Eleanor Antin: Works (1965–2017)
Image: book cover (alt text: “Cover, Eleanor Antin: Works (1965–2017)”)
I'm pleased to announce that the recording of my recent interview with artist Kim Anno, held on July 7, 2025, as part of the San Francisco Art Institute Artists Alumni Series, is now available online.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Kim Anno reflects on her trajectory as an artist working at the intersection of climate change, social justice, and experimental film. We discuss the legacy of SFAI, the role of artists in times of crisis, and how her practice continues to evolve in response to urgent planetary concerns.
Thank you to the SFAI Artists Alumni Series for hosting the event, and to Maria Theresa Barbist and Annie Holleb for making this conversation possible.
Watch the interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMU2ECPWR8
I was an undergraduate there in the late 1970s—Trinity is a small liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut—and it was meaningful to reflect on how my time there helped shape the work I do today on climate change, feminist art, and visual culture.
Trinity website: trincollreporter.online/Bloom
View pdf of my bio in Trinity Reporter Spring 2025
I'm pleased to announce that the recording of my book talk at Pratt Institute (April 21, 2025) is available online.
In this talk, I explore how artists are responding to climate change, ecology, and social justice, and how these intersections are reshaping contemporary art and cultural narratives.
Thank you to Pratt Institute for hosting the event and to everyone who attended.
▶️ Watch the full recording here: https://talks.pratt.edu/media/t/1_fzlcsw4c
Included as one of the influences on his powerful film True North, the book appeared in a display case alongside works exploring race, sexuality, and polar exploration.
Look out for my catalogue essay:
“Matthew Henson and the Contaminated Sublime: Race, Sexuality, and Resistance in Isaac Julien’s True North.”
This was Julien’s first US retrospective and his largest to date!
de Young Museum, SF
April 12–July 13, 2025
My talk, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic. was presented from my book, with a small reception that followed.
Free and open to the public.
“An aesthetic antidote to older ideologies, imagining the poles otherwise... [The book] offers politically thoughtful perspectives from feminist, Black, and Indigenous artists like Anne Noble, Isaac Julien, and Zacharias Kunuk.” – Robert Bailey & Pete Froslie
In open access for a special issue of Arts13, “New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics,” eds., Stacy Schwartz, and Dereck Conrad Murray.
Open access, 2024: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/2/50