Dear ARLIS/NA Colleagues,


We hope you can join us for this upcoming event, hosted by the WPI. The event is the first in a webinar series called, "Between the Two: Art and Sexuality in 1960s New York."


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“E.G. [Evening Gown] Orgy”: Jack Smith And Abstract Gender in the 1960s
with Joshua Lubin-Levy
Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET
REGISTER HERE

The scandal surrounding Jack Smith’s film Flaming Creatures (1963), with its overt display of naked bodies writhing in ecstasy and agony, marks a turning point in the history of 1960s sexual liberation—one that often overshadows the artistic experimentation at the core of Smith’s practice. This talk will look to the live performance work that predates Smith’s renowned film (still banned in New York State) in order to consider the entanglements and abstractions between art, gender, and embodiment swirling in the early part of the 1960s.

Joshua Lubin-Levy is a scholar, dramaturg, and curator, currently working on a monograph on the photography and performance work of Jack Smith. He is the Director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal, and a Curatorial Research Associate with the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received his doctorate from the Department of Performance Studies, New York University.

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Jancie Creaney (she/her)
Administrator and Communications Coordinator
Wildenstein Plattner Institute 
Website: wpi.art
Instagram: @wpi_art

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