This evening, like every evening day or nighttime, is gathered in our shared and irrefutable incapacity. Who do we arrive with, and what does it mean to never arrive alone? Carolyn Lazard, Geelia Ronkina and Constantina Zavitsanos meet outside for a series of experiments in un/solicited advice, crip foresight, among other improvisational forms toward being together.
This event will take place outdoors in the East Yard of St Mark's Church.
Carolyn Lazard is an artist based in Philadelphia. Their work has been exhibited in several institutions including Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Their work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale. Lazard is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 Macarthur Fellow. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Geelia Ronkina is an artist and writer based in New York.
Constantina Zavitsanos works in medium based time. Zavitsanos has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, Artists Space, The Kitchen, and Participant Inc. in New York. With Park McArthur, they wrote “Other Forms of Conviviality” in Women & Performance (Routledge, 2013) and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017). With Arika, Amalle Dublon, Carolyn Lazard, Jerron Herman, Park McArthur, and Alice Sheppard they organize the cross-disability arts events “I Wanna Be With You Everywhere” in New York and online. Zavitsanos received a Wynn Newhouse Foundation Award, a Keith Haring Fellowship in Art + Activism at Bard/CSS and a Roy Lichtenstein Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art in New York.