A 3-part workshop with artist Abigail Levine
April 7, 14, and 21, 2021 at 4:00p
In this workshop, we’ll develop the writing we do as artists, both the creative—language to use within our work—and the practical—language to use to describe it. We’ll do exercises to source language from our bodies. We’ll focus on sharp observations and simple writing, which is often the most evocative. You’ll have time to write and get feedback from other artists. You’ll leave the workshop with writing you have generated to use in your work and to talk about it, plus a resource list of tools, prompts, and examples of artist statements and writings. During the weeks of the workshop, I will be available to give you additional feedback on your writing. The workshop is for artists of all disciplines who want to find language to serve their experimental and creative work.
This 3-week workshop with Abigail Levine will meet on April 7, 14, and 21 from 4:00p until 6:00p pacific.
Our 3-part workshop fees are typically $75. However, we recognize the impact COVID-19 has had on our community, and our ability to earn income within an already stressed field. Please pay what you can, based on your current level of financial comfort $25 – $75.
REGISTER HERE
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Abigail Levine is an artist working between New York and Los Angeles. Rooted in dance but moving across media—performance, text, drawing, sound—Levine focuses on the poetics of our bodies’ work, how we record and value it. Her ongoing Restagings series, with presenting partner Fridman Gallery, has been supported by a MacDowell fellowship, Bogliasco Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Music USA, and Center for Performance Research. Levine recently collaborated with composer Alvin Lucier at ISSUE Project Room and has performed with both Marina Abramovic and Yvonne Rainer in their retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art. Levine’s critical writing has been published in Documents in Contemporary Art, Art21, Women & Performance, and Performance Art Journal (PAJ), and her creative work in Interim Poetics, La Vague Journal, and Imagined Theatres. She is a contributing editor at Movement Research Performance Journal and works with artists independently as an editor and grant writer.
