Ariel Goldberg

Rainbow Book Fair

admin — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:17:18 +0000

I’ll be part of what will be an amazing six hour marathon reading at the Midtown Holiday Inn on April 14, 2013.

Multifarious Array

admin — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:06:00 +0000

Multifarious Array: Pete’s Candy Store, March 29, 2013, 7pm. I’m reading with Alan Felsenthal and Stephen Motika.

Troubling the Line Anthology Now Available

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:06:36 +0000

“The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections by each poet that provide context for their work covering a range of issues from identification and embodiment to language and activism.” Edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson & available through Small Press Distribution.

On The Estrangement Principle at The Poetry Project

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:03:19 +0000

Monday November 12, 8pm, The Poetry Project Talk Series, NY, NY

I’ll be reflecting on and challenging the ideas and arguments in Part One of The Estrangement Principle which takes to task problems and productive aspects of labeling art as queer. I’ll also be reading what has begun to comprise Part Two alongside a slideshow of relevant photographs.

“Talking about my generation”: Jill Johnston and the Critic as Subject

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:12:00 +0000

Sunday November 4th, 3pm New Museum

Rethinking the Imprint of Judson Dance Theater Fifty Years Later: Movement Research in Residence.

Critical Correspondence coeditors Aaron Mattocks and Marissa Perel honor the celebrated writer and critic Jill Johnston, whose experimental and personal voice communicated the culture of the interdisciplinary 1960s art scene. In light of Johnston’s innovative contributions to the form, this conversation considers contemporary criticism and the writer as subject. Speakers: David Velasco & Claudia La Rocco. Readers: Thom Donovan, Ariel Goldberg, Cassie Petersen, and Christine Shan Shan Hou.

(re)collection – A collaboration with Lost and Found

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:10:15 +0000

I will have a text for take-away at San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts show: (re)collection – A collaboration with Lost and Found: Family Photos Swept by the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami. Thousands of photographs recovered from the city of Yamamoto after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011 will be on display. Work in response to the images also by Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Mayumi Hamanaka, Taro Hattori, Sean McFarland, Kari Orvik and Kelli Yon. The show runs September 12 – October 27, 2012. If not in SF: read Chemicals in Reverse.

Invisible Dog Hosts The Photographer

admin — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:17:40 +0000

Press Conference on the state of permission in photography.

Alex DeCarli & Stephen Boyer as Newscasters of “Dear Photographer” Letters.

As part of The Invisible Dog’s summer theater residency program, I will mount The Photographer, an evening length performance rotating around a press conference, slide lecture, and newscast. The Photographer is a singular and multiple force encapsulating and mystifying a relentless log of photographic events and encounters. Alex DeCarli and Stephen Boyer will perform as The Photographer’s Assistants.

Write This Down TV: Spring 2012 Newsletter

admin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:06:54 +0000

The recorded dialogue-transcribed-public-access-talk show collaboration between Charity Coleman and Ariel Goldberg is back.

The Estrangement Principle

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:53:55 +0000

I’ve completed part one of an essay that thinks about the labeling of art as queer as well as what further bounties or problems might arise for art and queerness when they live together. If you would like to read part one (in full) email me: arielmalkagoldberg[at]gmail.com

A video of me reading excepts of the essay will be screened in San Francisco during June at the Best Revenge show.

A selection of the essay is in Aufgabe 11 available from Litmus Press.

Emergency INDEX Anthology

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:46:53 +0000

Get Ugly Duckling Presse’s 2011 Anthology of 249 performances! The Photo Response Writing Group performance is in it, among many other gems like Jess Barbagallo’s Karen Davis Does the Club.

At the release party I performed a correspondence edited into an interview with Ohad Ben Shimon, whose performance The Mirror Stage is documented in the anthology. Alex DeCarli played the part of Ohad. As of now, there are no pictures of this event. I forgot to get a picture.

More of my correspondence with Ohad Ben Shimon (edited by David Berridge) is online at VerySmallKitchen