Duration
10.11.23, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Language
English
Admission
Free
Info
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the live talk with Hilton Als and Meredith Monk is unfortunately cancelled. Stay tuned for further updates.
On the occasion of the exhibition “Meredith Monk. Calling”, Haus der Kunst, Oude Kerk and Hartwig Art Foundation are thrilled to host a live public online conversation between genre- and gender-defying artist Meredith Monk and award-winning critic, journalist, curator and public intellectual Hilton Als. In a long-awaited dialogue, they will dive into Meredith Monk’s multi-faceted oeuvre ranging from site-specific performances to evening-long musical stage productions, from films to installations, and they will analyse the underlying reflections on aesthetics, the AIDS crisis, nature and spirituality. Both Monk and Als have deep roots in the New York art scene and have shaped it over decades with their respective voices. They will share their perspectives on identity, gender, race, loss and love.
Hilton Als (b. 1960, New York) is an award-winning journalist, critic and curator. He has been a staff writer at the “New Yorker” since 1994, before which Als was a staff writer for the “Village Voice” and an editor-at-large at “Vibe”. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Yale’s Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His next book, White Girls (2013), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award. His most recent book, My Pinup (2022), is a meditation on love and loss, on Prince and desire. He is currently a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Princeton University, Wesleyan University and the Yale School of Drama.