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Posts filed under Studio Museum Harlem

ONE QUESTION – Shaun Leonardo

Steve Locke: The first works I had seen of yours were the Invisible Man series and I’ve seen a few of the fighting performances. They are quite brutal (I’m thinking especially of Bull in the Ring.) The sheer athleticism of those performances meshes uncomfortably with the raw physical fact of them. In watching your work, I… (read more)

ONE QUESTION – Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz

SL: I was introduced to your work when we were participants together at Skowhegan in 2002. You did a pair of performances that were very difficult on the viewers and very hard, physically and emotionally on you. I had never really experienced that level of commitment in a performance and I was quite terrified and thrilled… (read more)