The Three Plagues: Conversations from New York
With manuel arturo abreu, Lulo Demarco, and Kerry Doran
Ep. 1 on Paranoia TV starting 30.9.
Ep. 2 on Paranoia TV starting 7.10.
Ep. 3 on Paranoia TV starting 14.10.
In English
Credits
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
Supported by the Embassy of the United States of America in Vienna
The impact of the pandemic has been especially striking in the USA. Moreover, it seems like the entire country is experiencing not one but three simultaneous viruses: COVID-19 comes along with a flare-up of endemic racism, which in turn relies upon viral images and memes circulating both on- and offline to thrive. The Three Plagues takes an in-depth look at these ongoing upheavals. In three hour-long episodes, program host Adam Kleinman and invited guests will trace various “etiologies” of this triplicate affliction, drawing upon the collective experience of several months of lockdowns, protests, and their related viral images and stories.
Zooming out, the second episode considers the geopolitical and cultural complexities of the Latinx community in the current moment of racial tension with art historian Kerry Doran, artist Lulo Demarco, and poet, essayist, and artist manuel arturo abreu.
Bio
manuel arturo abreu (1991, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is an artist living in Portland, OR. They work in text, ephemeral sculpture, still and moving image, and critical pedagogy. They are the author of two poetry books and one book of critical prose. They compose music as Tabor Dark and cofacilitate home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland.
Lulo Demarco (1991, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the social ramifications of the use of the internet, party scenes, and eating food. Demarco’s work explores real and imagined systems and ways of being through a queer perspective. They live in Berlin.
Kerry Doran (1990, Boston, USA) is an art historian, critic, and curator. Her activist-driven, interdisciplinary research centers on politically subversive mass media practices and artistic strategies. She lives in New York City.
Adam Kleinman (1978, New York, USA) is an independent curator and writer as well as the Lead Curator for North America at Kadist. He lives in New York City.
Credits
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
Supported by the Embassy of the United States of America in Vienna
