Constance DeJong, Nightwriters 2, Chalk, ink, and inkjet print on archival paper, 2018
Constance DeJong, Green Crosley, Re-enginieered radio with amplitude sensitive LEDs, 2018
March 2018
Twilight Talks presents
A Conversation with artist and writer Constance DeJong
In this episode of Twilight Talks, Kevin Moore interviews artist,
writer and performer Constance DeJong. She is best known for her experimental
novel Modern Love and as librettist for Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha.
She is also well known for her numerous collaborations with Tony Oursler,
including Fantastic Prayers. DeJong has exhibited internationally
at organizations such as the Dia Foundation and The Kitchen,
New York, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco.
She is a professor of art and time-based media at Hunter College.
NIGHTWRITERS
a Triple Canopy digital project published March 10, 2018. With thanks to Emmy Catedral for contributing thought and time and insights.
May 16, 2018: NightWriters live event Triple Canopy
246 Canal Street, 3W
New York, NYC
Stories features photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s A Storybook Life (1978-1999)
and writer and performer Constance DeJong’s Radios (2015-ongoing).
Through images, audio, and objects, the artists’ fragmented narratives
invite viewers to become an active part of storytelling.
DiCorcia’s A Storybook Life creates a dreamland straddling
documentary and staged photography through tableaus of domestic
situations using friends and family as models. The work
is arranged in a particular, nonlinear order, with only four complete sets in existence.
ForRadios, DeJong presents a set of vintage radios simultaneously
playing intimate and disarming narratives. She says: “The speaking voice
disconnected from a body can invoke intense listening, a kind of attention like no other.”
On narrative Orality and improvisation:
Wayne Koestenbaum, Constance DeJong, Sara Magenheimer and Morgan Bassichis
curated by Rachel Valinsky
In conjunction with programming centered on David Antin and Narrative, While
I was also Listening, originating at La Criee, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes,France.
Mar 23 & Mar 24
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Artists and long-time collaborators Constance DeJong and Tony Oursler
return to The Kitchen to restage their performance Relatives after a
hiatus of more than twenty years. Originally commissioned by the ICA Boston
in 1988 and performed at The Kitchen in 1989, Relatives combines spoken
text and video in a duet between a television and a performer.
Two worlds of storytelling (electronic and oral) deliver a genealogy of
family members who belong to a visible yet overlooked group:
history’s bit players; their collective story is traced through a
succession of appearances in painting, photography, the movies,
television, and video games. Organized by Matthew Lyons.
EXHIBITION | 601 Artspace I Can't Tell You Because I Can't Tell You
Curated by Gabriela Vainsencher
Constance DeJong, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Roee Rosen, Roman Signer, Kerry Tribe, Thomas Demand, Christian Marclay
PERFORMANCE | Sunday, October 15th, 4 PM
November 6
PERFORMANCE | Belladonna Series | Abrons Art Center
Constance DeJong,Cat Tyc and Amelia Bande
October 28, 7 PM
PERFORMANCE | Artists Space
55 Walker Street [LINK]
Constance DeJong, Charles Bernstein, Mariko Kondo & Yuji Agematsu
Part of programming for:
Social Surfaces, A Fundraising Exhibition
October 26-November 1
to Support Relocation of Artists Space to 80 White Street in 2018
July 22 - August 26
EXHIBITION | Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Constance DeJong, Sarah McMenimen & Kate Spencer Stewart
June 2017
Exhibition: LISTEN: It's a Sound Show
Equinox Studios
Georgetown, Seattle
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