About this Event
What artists say in public—about their life, context, references and readings of their work—has always been of great significance in scholarly interpretation and art history. An artist talk developed into a format in itself as a glimpse into the intimacy of the creative process. However, articulating one’s own work is not an easy task. For some artists, the “explanation” may dismiss the work, whereas for others, it becomes part of it.
These communications are a sensitive act where an individual’s subjectivities fade as quickly as they appear during the original utterance of a text. Li-Ming Hu will join us and create new gestures, intonations, and subjectivities from the sounds of Andrea Fraser’s 2008 Visiting Faculty Lecture, reperforming the recording and working with the glitch of sound and transmission. Li-Ming plays with Andrea’s likeness as she does with Andrea’s voice, layering their mutual use of costume in performance.
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About the artist: Li-Ming Hu is an artist, recovering actor and sometime writer born in Aotearoa/New Zealand currently based in Queens, NY. Often employing a carnivalesque sensibility, her work engages with the imperatives of high performance culture, drawing on her background in the entertainment industry to explore the production and performance of subjectivity within contemporary cultural economies. She has performed at the Rubin Foundation, Theater for the New City, The Momentary, and the Center for Performance Research and exhibited recently at the Goethe-Institut NYC and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
About the series: In Echoes Research Committee, we seek to continue the tradition of learning and listening together. By revisiting and growing the dispersal of Skowhegan’s , we welcome new ears into our broader community. We invite an artist to select a lecture from the archival recordings and “perform” it anew, creating a reverberation for contemporary audiences.
This series is developed in collaboration with Bryson Rand, member of Skowhegan’s Alumni Alliance.
Photo: Li-Ming Hu, 2026. Courtesy the artist
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture - New York Office, 136 West 22nd Street, New York, United States
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