SERIES CALENDAR

February & March 2025

Curated by Stella Cilman and Jay Sanders of Artists Space

February 1

Shelley Hirsch & Maggie Lee

Shelley Hirsch is an award-winning vocal artist, composer, and storyteller. Her work has been presented on five continents and can be heard on over 70 recordings. Hirsch has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award. She will perform the piece NO! which Christian Marclay conceived as a graphic score for solo voice, composed of comic book fragments. 

Maggie Lee’s work takes shape in sculpture, installation, photography, zine-making, blogging, and moving image. Her videos often oscillate between the personal and pop cultural. Lee’s work probes memories of early years in suburban New Jersey, candid scenes from New York City nightlife, and totem-like odes to the mass-produced ephemera that adorns daily life.

February 8

Rae Armantrout & John Kelsey

Rae Armantrout’s latest book is Go Figure. Her book, Versed, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award, and her book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Armantrout received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. She retired from UC San Diego as professor of poetry and poetics.

John Kelsey is a New York-based writer, co-founder of the gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art, and a member of the artists collective Bernadette Corporation.

February 15

Lynne Tillman & Audrey Wollen

Lynne Tillman’s book Thrilled to Death, comes out at the end of March from Soft Skull. It is a selection of stories written over 35 years, and most of the stories even my best friends haven't seen. 

Audrey Wollen is a writer from Los Angeles, living in New York City. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, The Nation, and elsewhere.

February 22

Eszter Balint & Juliana Huxtable & Rezarta Seferi

Eszter Balint has four critically acclaimed solo albums. She grew up as a member of the legendary Squat Theatre. She has starring roles in films by Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Steve Buscemi, alongside David Bowie, and in Louis CK’s TV show Louie. Her most recent project, I HATE MEMORY!, is a musical performance she wrote and stars in, featuring songs co-written with Stew. (Passing Strange!).   

Juliana Huxtable has had solo exhibitions at Reena Spauls, Project Native Informant, and the Museum of Modern Art. Forthcoming is a poetry collection from Wonder Press. Her first collection of texts was Mucus In my Pineal Gland. She co-wrote Life: A Novel with Hannah Black. 

Rezarta Seferi is an actor and producer living in Brooklyn. She made her stage debut in the 2024 production of Cave Zero.

March 1

Marina Abramovic & William Parker

Marina Abramović is a pioneering conceptual and performance artist whose work explores body and endurance art. Her work also investigates the relationship between performer and audience. Active for 50 years, she considers herself as the ‘grandmother of performance art.’ Her output consistently pushes the boundaries of performance as a visual form. 

William Parker has been a leader in the NYC FreeJazz movement since the early 1970’s. He revolutionized bass playing, using double bow and other extended techniques to bring the bass to the forefront of the band while still holding down the bottom. He has recorded over 250 albums, published 10 books, and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists. 

March 8

Farnoosh Fathi & A. B. Spellman

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections Great Guns and Granny Cloud, editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems, and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York. 

A.B. Spellman is a poet and jazz critic. His books include The Beautiful Days, Four Lives in the Bebop, and Things I Must Have Known. His work at NEA was honored with the establishment of the A.B. Spellman Award for Jazz Advocacy. He served on the Rockefeller Panel on the Arts and the advisory group for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

March 15

Elise Duryee Browner & Allen Ruppersberg

Elise Duryee-Browner, born in San Francisco in 1985, is an artist and writer in New York. 

Allen Ruppersberg’s solo exhibitions include the Norton Simon Museum; Greene Naftali; the Walker Art Center, traveling to the Hammer Museum; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Skirball Cultural Center; WIELS, Brussels; and the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in New York and Santa Monica.

March 22

Sibyl Kempson & Timmy Straw

Sibyl Kempson writes and makes durational, immersive, and proscenium performances, as well as visual narratives on film and video. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College and currently leads that program. She also teaches, consults with, and mentors other artists and writers through her company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co.

Timmy Straw’s first book was The Thomas Salto. Their poems appear in Annulet, The Paris Review, Harper’s, and Yale Review. With Ainsley Morse, they’re working on translations of the Russian poet Grigori Dashevsky. They are from Oregon.

March 29

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge & James Sherry

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. She is the author of thirteen poetry books, including Hello, the Roses and I Love Artists. A Treatise on Stars and a new edition of Empathy were published in 2020. Her collaborations include Endocrinology with Kiki Smith and Hiddenness with Richard Tuttle. She lives in northern New Mexico and writes about the green matrix. 

James Sherry is the author of 15 books of poetry and prose including selected works, Comin’ ‘Round; Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection, and Entangled Bank. Founder of Segue Foundation, since 1976 he has edited Roof Books, publishing nearly 200 titles. For more, see jamessherry.net

April & May 2025

Curated by Robert Fitterman, Dan Machlin, Mónica de la Torre, Aiden Farrell, Ahana Ganguly, & Ry Cook of Futurepoem

April 5

Marie Buck and Matthew Walker & Simone White

Marie Buck is the co-author, with Matthew Walker, of Spoilers. Her previous collections of poetry include Unsolved Mysteries, Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul, and Portrait of Doom. She is the web literary editor of Social Text. 

Matthew Walker is the co-author of Spoilers. He is the executive director of Primary Information, a nonprofit publisher of artists' books and writings. 

Simone White is a poet and critic whose books include Warring (forthcoming), or, on being the other woman, Dear Angel of Death, and Of Being Dispersed. She teaches in the English department at U. Penn, where she also serves as Associate Faculty Director of Kelly Writers House, and at the MFA program at Bard's Milton Avery Grad. School of the Arts.

April 12

Isabel Sobral Campos & Ronaldo V. Wilson

Isabel Sobral Campos is the author of The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation, as well as two other poetry collections, and a collaborative translation of Salette Tavares’s LEX ICON. She co-founded and edits Sputnik & Fizzle press with her sister. 

Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, academic, editor and author of six volumes of hybrid and experimental works spanning poetry, fiction, mixed genre theory, performance, digital, and visual art; two chapbooks; and three edited collections. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at UC Santa Cruz. 

April 19

Jennifer Firestone & Matvei Yankelevich

Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor with Marcella Durand of Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry. Firestone is the Chair of Writing at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and lives in Brooklyn.  

Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor whose publications include Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, and the chapbook Dead Winter.

April 26

Peter Gizzi & Susana Plotts-Pineda

Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Fierce Elegy, Now It’s Dark, Archeophonics, and In Defense of Nothing, all from Wesleyan. He lives in Holyoke, MA. 

Susana Plotts-Pineda is an artist and poet. Her poems appear in The New York Review of Books, Copenhagen, Works & Days, Lana Turner, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Her first book of poetry, In Order to Extract the Memory It Is Of Course Necessary to Build the Room is forthcoming.

May 3

John Keene & Laura Mullen

John Keene is the author of Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill, co-edited with Robert F. Reid-Pharr; Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas, and Punks: New & Selected Poems, which received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He is a member of the African Poetry Book Fund editorial board. 

Laura Mullen is the author of nine books. A collaboration with composer Nathan Davis—"a Sound uttered, a Silence crossed"—premiered in La Jolla in 2015. She is the translator of Véronique Pittolo’s HERO, and her most recent collection, EtC, was published by Solid Objects. Her website is: www.afteriwasdead.space

May 10

Mirene Arsanios & Roberto Balò

Mirene Arsanios is the author of the short story collection, The City Outside the Sentence, Notes on Mother Tongues, and The Autobiography of a Language. She lives in Brooklyn and is currently the program director at the Poetry Project. 

Roberto Balò is the author of several poetry books. His most recent book, Saga, was published by Porto Seguro press (Florence, Italy). He co-directs Accademia del Giglio, a language and art school in Florence where he teaches Italian as a foreign language. He lives in Prato, Italy.

May 17

Nazareth Hassan & Karla Kelsey

Nazareth Hassan is an interdisciplinary writer, director, musician, and performer. Recent works include VANTABLACK at Theatertreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin and Untitled (1-5) in NYC at The Shed in Hudson Yard and the Security Theater at Judson Memorial Church. Upcoming: Bowl EP at The Vineyard Theater and Slow Mania from Futurepoem. www.nazarethhassan.com. 

Karla Kelsey is the author of seven books, most recently Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy—a work of experimental biography, poet’s novel, and innovative literary criticism. She is the editor of Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy and co-publishes SplitLevel Texts.

These events are made possible, in part, by Artists Space staff support & technical assistance.