Episode 3: Gordon Hall
Vertical gold pattern with uneven think black stripe at top, and midway through image are two white boxes with black text. The box in the centre left reads, "on the one hand," and box on the centre right reads, "love".

Fiona Reilly, 2021

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Gordon Hall is an artist based in New York who makes sculptures and performances. Hall has had solo presentations at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Renaissance Society, EMPAC, and Temple Contemporary, and has been in group exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hessel Museum, Art in General, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, among many other venues. Hall’s writing and interviews have been published widely, including in Art Journal, Artforum, Art in America, and Bomb, as well as in Walker Art Center's Artist Op-Ed Series, What About Power? Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture (published by SculptureCenter), and Documents of Contemporary Art: Queer (published by Whitechapel and MIT Press.) A volume of Hall’s collected essays, interviews, and performance scripts was published by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in 2019. Hall is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Vassar College and will be the 2022 resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

SHOW NOTES

Hall’s Essay “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body’: A Polemic”

Dana Kopel, “Against Artsploitation: Unionizing the New Museum”, The Baffler, September 2021

Gordon Hall’s Website

Center for Experimental Lectures

Hall’s Books Available at Printed Matter

Video + Transcript of Hall’s new short lecture “On Closed Boxes” at Dia: Chelsea, New York, NY (10 November, 2021)

Other People's Houses, book release event and reading, AIR Gallery / ZOOM, 13 February 2021