THE ART OF DYING OR (PALLIATIVE ART MAKING IN THE AGE OF ANXIETY)

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Barbara Hammer blacklight with owl 2014

Inspired by Rainer Marie Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, 79 year old lesbian artist Barbara Hammer ruminates on the experiences of living with advanced cancer while making art. In a performative lecture, Hammer shares guidelines and film clips from her long-term art making practice.

Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on October 10, 2018: