Grantee Book Launch: Lori Waxman, Keep Walking Intently

Please join us for a series of ambulatory performances to launch Lori Waxman's new Graham-funded book Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus, just out from Sternberg Press, Berlin. Throughout the evening works by Vito Acconci, William Anastasi, La Monte Young, Anna Halprin, Daniel Buren, Irena Haiduk, and George Brecht, among others, will be performed.

Performers include Aram Atamian, Jane Thompson, Udita Upadhyaya, Phoebe Chin, Sophie Leddick, Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen, Calla Dobmeyer, Maryam Faridani, Jordan Miller, Jose Perez, Solomon Salim Moore, Yewen Dong, Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olson and Lori Waxman.

Lori Waxman has been art critic for the Chicago Tribune for eight years. She teaches art history and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is coauthor of Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (2011) and Talking with Your Mouth Full: New Language for Socially Engaged Art (2008). She received a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her performance 60 wrd/min art critic, which was included in dOCUMENTA (13) and later published as an artist’s book by Onestar Press.