Why Words Now presents Laura McLean-Ferris
'Tis the season for wingèd words, which pass from man to man. For a Why Words Now Christmas Special, Laura McLean-Ferris will deliver a text of varying temperatures, written for babies, snowmen, celebrities, and strangers.
Laura McLean-Ferris is a writer and curator based in Paris. Her work has appeared in 4Columns, Artforum, ArtReview, Bookforum, frieze, Flash Art International, Mousse, and many publications. She was the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and her short-form collection The Lacustrine was published in 2016. Formerly, she was Chief Curator at Swiss Institute, New York, where she worked from 2015-2021. She organized the first survey exhibition of Rosemary Mayer, which was accompanied by the books Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching (2023) and The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer (2022). She is currently working on a book that writes through Agnès Varda's film Cléo from 5 to 7 to explore the present tense of early motherhood.
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Join us at the School of Sculpture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, on December 9, at 6pm.
The event is free, no registration needed, just show up.
The lecture will be in English.
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“Why Words Now” is curated by artist and academy professor Simon Dybbroe Møller. Supported by Ny Carlsbergfondet and Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansen Fonden.
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