From the Chair

Apr 10, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair

In 1992, the Choreographer Bill T. Jones lost his partner Arnie Zane to HIV/AIDS. Shortly thereafter, as he moved through his own grief and still in the crisis days of the AIDS epidemic (and HIV positive himself) he initiated a series of what he called Survival...

From the Chair

Apr 3, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair

Dear Friends, I hope you are all safe and healthy. I must admit these last couple of weeks have knocked the wind out of me. I have written an essay a week for almost five years now—no matter what—an essay a week. But in the last two weeks I had nothing to share. We...

From the Chair

Mar 9, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair

On Finishing An essay, a project, a sentence, a thought, a drawing… How do we know when any of these things are finished? And what does it mean to finish a project or a life for that matter? In On the Creation of Art (1965), the philosopher Monroe Beardsley writes...

From the Chair

Mar 2, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair

Works which demand to be ‘seen and read’ absorb the dialogues and refusals between visual and written communication, and explicitly ask for us to reappraise how we consume literature and art. —Elizabeth Benjamin and Sophie Corser, Literature and Art: Conversations and...