Emily Roysdon and Ian White
Emily Roysdon is a New York and Stockholm based interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work is invested in language, memory, collectivity, and the processes of history and she uses video, photography, text, and performance to that aim. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR. Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna); New Museum (NY): Power Plant (Toronto); and Studio Voltaire (London). Her videos have been screened at Whitechapel Gallery (London); Arsenal: Institut fur Film and Videokunst (Berlin); The Kitchen (NY); and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her writings have been published in numerous books and magazines, including Cabinet Magazine, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and Women in Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum of Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. For six months in 2008 she was resident at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS). She is a recipient of a 2008 Art Matters grant and the 2009 Franlin Furnace grant and she is a contriubting member and sometimes performer with the band MEN.
Ian White (1971-2013) had an established reputation …
Emily Roysdon is a New York and Stockholm based interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work is invested in language, memory, collectivity, and the processes of history and she uses video, photography, text, and performance to that aim. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR. Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna); New Museum (NY): Power Plant (Toronto); and Studio Voltaire (London). Her videos have been screened at Whitechapel Gallery (London); Arsenal: Institut fur Film and Videokunst (Berlin); The Kitchen (NY); and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her writings have been published in numerous books and magazines, including Cabinet Magazine, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and Women in Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum of Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. For six months in 2008 she was resident at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS). She is a recipient of a 2008 Art Matters grant and the 2009 Franlin Furnace grant and she is a contriubting member and sometimes performer with the band MEN.
Ian White (1971-2013) had an established reputation as an artist, writer, and curator. As a writer and artist, White worked predominantly in performance. He was Adjunct Film Curator at Whitechapel Gallery in London from 2001-2011, the facilitator of the LUX Associate Artists Programme, and also worked on independent projects. As an artist, he performed at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the ICA in London, STUK in Belgium, De Appel in Amsterdam, and DAAD Galerie in Berlin, among others. He created two major collaborations with Jimmy Robert and together with Pat Catterson, they performed Yvonne Rainer's Trio A at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Previous curatorial projects were staged at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The British School at Rome Gallery, and Frieze Art Fair. He was co-editor of Kinomuseum: Towards an artists' cinema and wrote for numerous publications including Frieze, Afterall, Art Review, Art Monthly and The Wire.
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