DOCUMENTED DIALOGUES

ARTISTS INTERVIEWING ARTISTS.



#3 Caroline Picard, Lindsey Dorr-Niro & Lisa Vinebaum.

Documented Dialogue #3 is a conversation between curator Caroline Picard and artists Lindsey Dorr-Niro & Lisa Vinebaum. The conversation takes place at Sector 2337, and investigates the relationships between aesthetic form and historical content, material references and site specificity, and precarious utility and labor production.

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Caroline Picard is an artist, writer, publisher, and curator who explores the figure in relation to systems of power through on-going investigations of inter-species borders, how the human relates to its environment and what possibilities might emerge from upturning an anthropocentric world view. Her writing has appeared in publications like ArtForum (critics picks), Flash Art International, Hyperallergic, Paper Monument, The Seen, and e-flux’s live blog. In 2014 she was the Curatorial Fellow at La Box, ENSA in France, and became a member of the SYNAPSE International Curators’ Network of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2015. She is the Executive Director of The Green Lantern Press—a nonprofit publishing house and art producer in operation since 2005—and Co-Director of Sector 2337, a hybrid artspace/bar/bookstore in Chicago. www.sector2337.com.

Lindsey Dorr-Niro is an artist and educator currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She holds her MFA from The Yale School of Art and BFA from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Dr. Lisa Vinebaum is an interdisciplinary artist, critical writer, and educator. She holds a PhD in Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK); an MA in Textiles also from Goldsmiths, and a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal. She is an Assistant Professor in the department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Associate Editor of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture (Routledge/Taylor and Francis). Current research and artistic investigations explore labor, performance and collectivity in the larger context of economic globalization and cutbacks to workers’ rights. She also writes about the social histories of textiles and their connections to contemporary fiber and socially engaged art.

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DOCUMENTED DIALOGUES is an alternative and auxiliary form of the artist interview. 
We initiate conversation between two parties with an active concern in the arts - 
and documents their dialogue as a fly on the wall, screen, or page. How might the 
documentation of the interview serve its content rather than abstracting it into 
an editorial form?

Here we provide the platform for discussion, conversation, dialogue, or sharing 
that might enlighten and expose current issues, ideas, and topics among contemporary 
artists, curators, makers, and thinkers - via the technologies and platforms we are 
already using to communicate with each other.

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DOCUMENTED DIALOGUES IS A PROJECT BY MATT MEHLAN & DAVID HALL.
PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ARTIST POOL.

Matt Mehlan is an artist, musician, and producer living in Chicagoland.

David Hall writes in sentences and often works with materials already charged with significance.