Fia Backström is an artist born in Sweden, based in New York. Her work focuses on the fabric of co-existence and the construction of collective subjectivity through the social lives of images and language. Backström works with imaginary, historical, and current systems, destabilizing their material semiotics, while fluidly reworking the terms of engagement, turning social…

Mary Reid Kelley combines painting, performance, and her distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in polemical, graphically stylized videos, made in collaboration with her partner Patrick Kelley. Mary and Patrick’s videos have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Tate Liverpool; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Kunsthalle Bremen; The High Line, New York; MUDAM Luxembourg; the Hammer Museum; the…

Jill Magid is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Solo exhibitions include: Museum Univesitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; San Francisco Art Institute; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Berkeley Museum of Art, California; Tate Liverpool; and the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands. She has participated in Manifesta, Performa, and…

This lecture revisits the “burden of liveness” for an era of captivating technology and artificial intelligence. Introduced by José Esteban Muñoz in his first book, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999), “the burden of liveness” addressed and reframed the debates over the live and the mediated that raged in performance studies…