DIVERSE DISCOURSE LECTURE: CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Criticism is Dead. Long Live Criticism A Diverse Discourse Lecture by Claudia La Rocco April 12, 6:30 pm, Matchbox 4 Reserve free tickets here Claudia La Rocco is the author of The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited), selected poetry, performance texts, images and criticism, and the novel petit cadeau, published by The Chocolate Factory Theater as both a print edition of one and a four-day, interdisciplinary live edition. She edited I Donʼt Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the catalogue for Danspace Projectʼs PLATFORM 2015, which she curated. Her collaborators include the choreographer Michelle Ellsworth, the performance company Findlay//Sandsmark and the saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief, with whom she is animals & giraffes. A columnist for Artforum, a contributing editor to Emergency Index (Ugly Duckling Press), and writer-in-residence at On the Boards theater, she is editor-in-chief of SFMOMA’s Open Space. About this talk, La Rocco says: The demise of traditional criticism has long been rumored. But of course it continues, in various fits and starts, alongside platforms that (need it be said?) make everyone a critic. What now is the role of this tradition of public thinking out loud within current public discourse, […]
