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The artist Andrea Fraser once argued that there is no “outside” to the art world; that art does not exist as a social concept outside its institutionalization. On March 24th, artist Jonathan González, artist glyneisha, and writer Lillian Snortland come together for Amplify’s next virtual Alternate Currents panel discussion, Who Needs Who the Most: Artists and Cultural Institutions to assess artistic value in and outside its proximate relationship to arts institutions.
They’ll reimagine definitions of “artistic value” in the context of artist-initiated projects that seek to shift institutional paradigms of racial equity, fair pay, institutional transparency, etc. and ask how artists can meaningfully engage with institutions while acknowledging their inherent political and economic entanglements.
Join us for this conversation on Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm by registering HERE. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the discussion on Zoom after registering. And don’t forget to visit the Alternate Currents blog before the discussion.
Free and open to all. Virtual programming is presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About the Panelists:
Jonathan González is an artist working at the intersections of performance, text, sculpture, and other time-based media from Queens, New York. González’s work speculates on the political utility of the “stage” as a method to interface with publics upon systems of liveness, objects, and economies of data that construct the built environment.
Their works include: Not Total (homeschool PDX, Yale Union x Paragon Arts Gallery, 2019), Working on Water in collaboration with Mario Gooden (Columbia School of Architecture, 2019), h/S: Jonathan González (Ciccio Gallery, 2019), Maroonage: Elaborations on the Stage and Staying Alive (Contact Quarterly), Lucifer Landing I & II (MoMA PS1 x Abrons Arts Center, 2019), Collaborative Curiosity (Contemporaryand), and their upcoming publication, Liar Liar (53rd Press). Their curations include Sunday Service @ Knockdown Center and Movement Research Fall Festival: invisible material. Previously an LMCC Workspace Resident (2018-19), NARS Foundation AIR (2018), Jerome Foundation Fellow (2019), Mertz Gilmore Grantee (2018), Art Matters Fellow (2019), Shandaken Project/Governors Island AIR (2019-20), and Bessie-nominee for Outstanding Production (ZERO, Danspace Project, 2018) and Breakout Choreographer (2019).
glyneisha is a multimedia artist, currently living and working in Kansas City, MO. glyneisha completed her Bachelors of Fine Art in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2017. She was a 2019 summer studio artist-in-residence at Art Omi in Ghent, NY and artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE. She is a 2020 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow and a recipient of the 2020 Byron C. Cohen Award, administered by Charlotte Street Foundation.
glyneisha has exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions in the United States including SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS, the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE, Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin, MO, and Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, MO. Her work is included in several private and museum collections in the United States.
Lillian Snortland, originally from Eugene, Oregon, is a self-taught writer of fiction, poetry, and essays. She has explored themes of fantasy, surrealism, and the imaginative feminine from a young age. At Carleton College, she studied storytelling and material culture of the past—Classical Studies, French literature and media, and art history, and continues to play with a multidisciplinary perspective in her analysis today. She currently works in the nonprofit arts sector to provide opportunities of capacity-building and cultural capital to those in need. Lillian was recently accepted into the Virtual Collaborative Program for Emerging Artists, hosted by Exit 11 Performing Arts Company and Postscript Magazine. Further writing can be found at https://chaimihai.wordpress.com/.
Alternate Currents opens space for conversation, ideation, and action around national and international discussions in the arts that have a profound impact at the local level. Alternate Currents exists both on- and off-line in the form of a dedicated online resource, conversation series, and working group.