Vivian Crockett & Carolyn Lazard

Event Details: Monday, April 25, 2016, 8:00 pm

Access Note:

St Mark’s Church is wheelchair accessible. To access Parish Hall inside the church, the space where this event is being held, attendees must pass through the main sanctuary and a corridor. There are 2 sets of double doors and two single doors to go through. The smallest of these doors at the end of the corridor is 28.5 inches wide. Please contact Vivian at vivian.crockett@gmail.com with additional questions.

Please come to this event fragrance-free to to accommodate those with chemical sensitivities (https://invisibledisabilities.org/ida-books-pamphlets/chemicalsensitivities/fragrancefreezone/).

There is an all-gender, wheelchair accessible bathroom located on the ground floor. ASL interpretation will be provided.

*This event will be livestreamed via Periscope. The Periscope link will go live on Twitter, @poetry__project & on this event page, the evening of the event.

If you have any other access needs please contact the Poetry Project by Wednesday, April 20 by calling 212-674-0910 or emailing info@poetryproject.org.

Photo: Julieta Salgado

Vivian Crockett

Vivian Crockett is a multinational, Brazilian-born independent researcher, scholar, and curator focusing largely on art of African diasporas, (Afro)Latinx diasporas, and Latin America at the varied intersections of race, gender, and queer theory. She is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Columbia University. Her scholarly and cultural work seeks to assert a radically political analysis of modern and contemporary art and to foster the remembrance and visioning of cultural spaces that merge a commitment to artistic and cultural production with sociopolitical justice and collective liberation.

Photo: Sam Richardson

Carolyn Lazard

Carolyn Lazard is an artist and writer working in media and performance. Her work engages ideas of collective practice, intimacy, care, risk, and ecology. Lazard is a founding member of the art collective Canaries and is a 2015 recipient of the Wynn Newhouse Award. Her forthcoming essay will appear in the New Museum publication, “THIS COULD BE US.” She spends her time between Brooklyn and Philadelphia.

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