JANNA DYK

TALKS

"Family Legacy, Trauma, and the Female Gaze," moderator, PICTO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY August 2024

“Perception, Family Narrative, News, and Uncertainty,” panel discussion with Lux Eterna, Rachelle Mozman Solano, Mujero, and Adam Golfer, Goucher College, 2024

“Inter/Non/Anti: Artist as Practitioner,” College Art Association, Chicago, February 2024

“She Doesn't Look Sick: Sh*t & Pain in Contemporary Art,” New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, May 2024.

“An Ongoing Experiment: Select ‘Mistakes’ in Curating,” 2012-present, curatorial talk, Goucher College Department of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2023.

“Encyclopedia of Things,” panel discussion, moderated by Michelle Levy and Elisabeth Schmolarz, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, 2022.

“An Ongoing Experiment: Select ‘Mistakes’ in Curating,” 2012-present, curatorial talk, Muhlenberg College Department of Art, Baker Arts Center, PA, 2022.

“Select ‘Mistakes’ in Hybridity,” work presentation, PLAYA Art & Science Residency, Oregon, 2022.

"Redirect," panel discussion on technology and changing sociopolitical landscapes, with Lei Han, Joyce Lee, Ben Duvall, and Victoria Bradbury, RAMP, Asheville, NC, Jan 2020

"In Absentia, in Effigy," panel discussion on politics, images, perception, with Shahrzad Changalvaee, Janna Dyk, Clara Darrason, and Jennifer Houdrouge, about Changalvaee's exhibition, "In Absentia, in Effigy," The Chimney, February 17, 2019.

"Memory, Images, Perception, & Queerness," panel discussion, with Osman Can Yerebekan and Cansu Korkmaz, SOHO20 +/- Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, Apr. 6, 2019.

"Artists investigate global politics via family histories,” talk + panel discussion, for "out of story: poetry, politics, and practice," 205 Hudson Gallery, April 2017

"Family Archives, Travel, Politics," talk with Adam Golfer, Booklyn Artist Alliance, September 2016.

"Interdisciplinary Programming," talk with Ken David Masur, Fanny Clamagirand, and cellist Marc Coppey, Chelsea Music Festival, NYCAMS Gallery, June 2012.

ART WRITING*

"A House Without a Roof," 1000 Words Magazine, UK, London, October 2016

"Morgan O'Hara: On Columbia's Research Center for the Arts and Culture (RCAC), and the Encyclopedia of Live Transmission," sftpwr, 2013.

"Alternate Narratives of Place: Meanderings on Interdisciplinary work, Goldsmiths, and Magnum Photography," interview, sftpwr, August 28, 2013.

EXPERIMENTAL WRITING*

"I Really Got You Wrong, Didn't I," Encyclopedia of Things, edited by Elizabeth Schmolarz and Michelle Levy, Spectre Books, (Leipzig, Germany), 2022.

"An Impossibility," selected vignettes for "corporeal art experiment," Famous Chimps, 2020.

"Revisiting the Text(s)," abridged version originally slated for ARTSLANT (unpublished due to AS closing), 2017.

READINGS*

"Select readings from Encyclopedia of Things," Lehman Maupin Gallery, October 2022

"Twelve Labors: #3," art + text performances, curated by Rachel Hillery, Hercules Art Center, Jan. 2020

"Invitational #1," Williamsburg Brooklyn Public Library, poetry readings, curated by Diane Ludin, Nov. 19, 2019

"Mimeo Microphone," St. Mark's Poetry Project, poetry readings, curated by Laura Henriksen, with Ama Birch, Janna Dyk, Stella Hayes, Adeena Karasick, Julia Knobloch,Diane Ludin, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Bob Rosenthal, Marina Tempkina, and Peter Valente, Nov. 4, 2019

"Source Material," Art Seed, Marble House Project, art + text performance and curatorial talk, May 2017

“To Tell You,” poetry reading, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, Jan. 8, 2015

PERFORMANCES

“the evangelicals,” performative talk, in conjunction with Pablo Helguera's The Incoherents, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NY, Feb. 2017.

“Through a Glass Dimly,” interactive written performance activated by sculpture, curated by Keena Gonzalez, Michael Berube, St. Paul’s Cathedral, NY, Sept. 11, 2013.

Panel discussion and performance highlights, 2012 - present (or also, an archive of do's)

*Additional works are available for publishing, readings, and commissions. Please contact me for details.