Swoon stands before her installation Anthropocene Extinction, now on view in the State Street Corporation Lobby.

TALKS

Swoon in Conversation

This past fall the ICA unveiled Anthropocene Extinction, a site-specific installation by street artist and activist Swoon. Through intricate hand-cut paper creatures, a 40-foot hanging bamboo sculpture, and a massive portrait of an Australian Aboriginal nomad, she makes references to the current geological era, as well as the ecological dangers facing our planet. Join Swoon for a conversation with artist, author, and Brown University professor Mark Tribe about her labor-intensive collage techniques as well as her tireless involvement in global humanitarian projects.

Swoon, born Caledonia Curry, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, recent solo exhibitions and collaborative installations include: Swoon: Thalassa, New Orleans Museum or Art, New Orleans, LA, 2011; SWOON, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, 2008; Feral (collaboration with Monica Canilao), The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA, 2008; Drown Your Boats, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2008; The Burning House (collaboration with FAILE & David Ellis), Museum Hetdomein Sittard, Netherlands, 2007 and New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2007; Colette, Paris, France, 2007.  Select group exhibitions and installations include: Art in the Streets, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 2011; Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2010; The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2008; Generations USA, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine, 2007; Graf?ti, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2006; Spank the Monkey, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2006

Mark Tribe is an artist whose work explores the intersection of media technology and politics. His installations, videos, and performances have been exhibited most recently at the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, G-MK in Zagreb, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Tribe is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. He teaches courses on radical media, the art of curating, open-source culture, digital art, and techniques of surveillance at Brown University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies. He also teaches in the Art Practice MFA program at School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. He splits his time between New York City and Providence. 

This program is made possible, in part, with the support of Ronald and Ronni Casty.
 

Louis Vuitton is proud to support Anthropocene Extinction, a site-specific installation by Swoon.

Additional support provided by Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté,
Geoff Hargadon and Patricia La Valley, Tim Phillips, and Connie Coburn and James Houghton.

ICA interpretive programs and materials are made possible by the support of the
Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation.