JANNA DYK

TALKS + PANEL DISCUSSIONS

2024 “Family Legacy, Trauma, and the Female Gaze,” moderator, Dr. Thiago Arzua (Columbia University), and 

Ana Vallejo, in conjunction w/ exhibition, In Sight / Within, PICTO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2024 “Perception, Family Narratives, News, and Uncertainty,” panel discussion with Rachelle Mozman Solano, 

Mujero, Adam Golfer, Lux Eterna, Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.

2024 “Interdisciplinarity, Art, and Climate Change,” with Christopher Lin, Goucher College Library, Baltimore, MD.

2024 “Inter/Non/Anti: Exploring Interdisciplinary Art Labs,” in Panel: “Expanding Spheres: Collaborations in 

Classrooms, Labs, Institutions, and Communities,” College Art Association, Chicago, IL.

2024 “She Doesn’t Look Sick: Excavating Sh*t & Pain in Contemporary Art,” New York University Grossman School 

of Medicine & IBD Center, with Dr. Jessica Gerson and Kriota Wellberg, New York, NY.

2023 “An Ongoing Experiment: Select ‘Mistakes’ in Curating,” 2012-present, curatorial talk, Goucher College 

Department of Art, Baltimore, MD.

2022 “Encyclopedia of Things,” panel discussion, moderated by Michelle Levy and Elisabeth Schmolarz, Lehman 

Maupin Gallery, New York, NY.

2022 “An Ongoing Experiment: Select ‘Mistakes’ in Curating,” 2012-present, curatorial talk, Muhlenberg College 

Department of Art, Baker Arts Center, PA.

2022 “Select ‘Mistakes’ in Hybridity,” work presentation, PLAYA Art & Science Residency, Summer Lake, Oregon. 

2020 “Redirect,” panel discussion, technology and changing sociopolitical landscapes, w/ Dr. Lei Han, Joyce 

Lee, Ben Duvall, Victoria Bradbury, The RAMP, Asheville, NC, January 24.

2019 “In Absentia, In Effigy,” panel discussion on politics, images, perception, w/ Shahrzad 

Changalvaee, Clara Darrason, Jennifer Houdrouge, The Chimney, Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 17.

2019 "Memory, Images, Perception, & Queerness," panel discussion, w/ Osman Can Yerebekan, Cansu 

Korkmaz, SOHO20 +/- Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, Apr. 6.

2017 “Artists investigate global politics via family histories,” panel discussion, "out of story: poetry, 

politics, and practice," 205 Hudson, NY.

2017 “Source Material,” talk, Marble House Project, Dorset, Vermont, May 1.

2015 “Travel Queries: Family Archives, Language, Politics,” Talk w/ Adam Golfer, Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY.

ART WRITING*

"A House Without a Roof," 1000 Words Magazine, UK, London, October 2016

"Morgan O'Hara: On Columbia's Research Center for the Arts and Culture (RCAC), and the Encyclopedia of Live Transmission," sftpwr, 2013.

"Alternate Narratives of Place: Meanderings on Interdisciplinary work, Goldsmiths, and Magnum Photography," interview, sftpwr, August 28, 2013.

EXPERIMENTAL WRITING*

"I Really Got You Wrong, Didn't I," Encyclopedia of Things, edited by Elizabeth Schmolarz and Michelle Levy, Spectre Books, (Leipzig, Germany), 2022.

"An Impossibility," selected vignettes for "corporeal art experiment," Famous Chimps, 2020.

"Revisiting the Text(s)," abridged version originally slated for ARTSLANT (unpublished due to AS closing), 2017.

READINGS*

"Select readings from Encyclopedia of Things," Lehman Maupin Gallery, October 2022

"Twelve Labors: #3," art + text performances, curated by Rachel Hillery, Hercules Art Center, Jan. 2020

"Invitational #1," Williamsburg Brooklyn Public Library, poetry readings, curated by Diane Ludin, Nov. 19, 2019

"Mimeo Microphone," St. Mark's Poetry Project, poetry readings, curated by Laura Henriksen, with Ama Birch, Janna Dyk, Stella Hayes, Adeena Karasick, Julia Knobloch,Diane Ludin, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Bob Rosenthal, Marina Tempkina, and Peter Valente, Nov. 4, 2019

"Source Material," Art Seed, Marble House Project, art + text performance and curatorial talk, May 2017

“To Tell You,” poetry reading, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, Jan. 8, 2015

PERFORMANCES

“the evangelicals,” performative talk, in conjunction with Pablo Helguera's The Incoherents, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, NY, Feb. 2017.

“Through a Glass Dimly,” interactive written performance activated by sculpture, curated by Keena Gonzalez, Michael Berube, St. Paul’s Cathedral, NY, Sept. 11, 2013.

*Additional works are available for publishing, readings, and commissions. Please contact me for details.

Panel discussion and performance highlights, 2012 - present (or also, an archive of do's)