Emily Roysdon – Antrittsvorlesung
Vortrag zur Vorstellung der neuen DAAD-Gastprofessorin / 24.10.2016
Emily Roysdon aus New York und Stockholm stellt sich und ihre Arbeiten vor, die, in ihrer interdisziplinären Art, sich zwischen Performance, in photografischen Installationen, Drucken, Texten und Videos verorten.
24.10.2016, 18.00 Uhr
Auditorium, Speicher XI, Bremen
Emily Roysdon (1977) is a New York and Stockholm-based artist and writer. Her working method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the form of performance, photographic installations, print making, text, video, curating and collaborating. Roysdon developed the concept „ecstatic resistance“ to talk about the impossible and imaginary in politics. The concept debuted with simultaneous shows at Grand Arts in Kansas City, and X Initiative in New York and the essay has been translated into Spanish, German, Czech, and Maori languages. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Her many collaborations include costume design for choreographers Levi Gonzalez, Vannesa Anspaugh and Faye Driscoll, as well as lyric writing for The Knife, and Brooklyn based JD Samson & MEN.
Recent solo projects include new commissions from Secession, Vienna; Performance Room, Tate Modern, London; PARTICIPANT, INC (NYC); If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Visual Art Center, Austin; Art in General, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Konsthall C, Stockholm; and a Matrix commission from the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley.
Roysdon’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the 2010 Whitney Biennial, New York; Greater New York at MoMA PS1; The Generational, New Museum, New York; Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Power Plant, Toronto; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. In 2012 Roysdon was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize, exhibiting in Kiev and the Venice Biennale.
Roysdon’s work is in the public collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and The New York Public Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York.
Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006.
She is a Professor of Art at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden.