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

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: