We invite you to Working together, talking together, a conversation co-presented by X Artists' Books and / (Slash). Working together, talking together is a trialogue with Lynn Marie Kirby and collaborators Jordan Stein and Tanya Zimbardo in celebration of Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby, our new book about Kirby’s work.
The Lounge at 1275 Minnesota St.
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
https://sfartbookfair.com/Programming
Sunday, July 21, 2–3pm
Free Admission
Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby explores the artist’s work through a collection of newly commissioned writing and previously published essays by Etel Adnan, Barbara McBane, Charlie Hewison, Glenn Phillips, Etienne Kallos, Lynne Sachs, Jeffrey Skoller, Jordan Stein, Jalal Toufic, Carolina Magis Weinberg, Tanya Zimbardo, and interviews with Kirby and Lissa Gibbs, Alexandra Grant, Megan Kiskaddon, Rachel Ralph, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. In lieu of standard photo documentation, the book includes Kirby's black & white scans.
Lynn Marie Kirby is a San Francisco-based artist focused on questions of place, the residue of history, and social choreography. Her conceptual practice engages time as a material, different sensory systems, improvisation and collaboration, accidents that make her jump, and forms of contemplation. She is the co-author of XAB's previous publication Oracular Transmissions and a collaborator on X Projects’ Itinéraires Fantômes oracle deck.
Jordan Stein is a curator based in San Francisco and the author of Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada & Other Pieces (Soberscove Press, 2021) and Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts, a monograph on the singular Japanese-American artist (Pre-Echo Press, 2024). In 2017, he founded Cushion Works, an exhibition space that aims to link past and present through the varied presentation of critical— and often overlooked—artworks, histories, and ideas.
Tanya Zimbardo is a San Francisco-based curator. As an Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she has organized several exhibitions. She has co-edited exhibition catalogs for the museum and for guest curatorial projects including the recent publication "Bonnie: Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970" (Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture). Zimbardo has curated exhibitions and screenings for nonprofit organizations and contributed to publications including Feminist Media Histories, INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media, and VoCA Journal.