A panel discussion addressing perceptions of time within artistic practice, moderated by R.H. Quaytman, with Dawn Kasper, Laurie Weeks, Sadie Benning, and Rachel Haidu. Topics will include: Dawn Kasper’s current performance installation & sun & or THE SHAPE OF TIME at David Lewis, as well as aspects of time perceived through the utilization of the practices of film & video, photography, painting, performance, poetry and experimental sound.

Dawn Kasper is a Los Angeles based performance-installation artist. Kasper has performed and exhibited widely at galleries and institutions including; The Migros Museum Fur Genenwartskunst, Zurich, CH (2005), Leo Koenig Inc., Projekte, New York, NY (2009), Tramway, Glasgow, SCT (2012), The Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI (2012), Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2012), 2012 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2012), Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2013), and David Lewis, New York, NY (2014).

Laurie Weeks is a writer and performer based in New York City. Her fiction and essays have been published throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including in Semiotext(e)’s The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading and most recently, Dave Eggers’s The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008. She was a screenwriter on Boys Don't Cry. Weeks has taught at The New School in New York City and in 1996 was awarded a fiction fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University.

Rachel Haidu is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. She regularly publishes criticism in Artforum and Texte zur Kunst, and has contributed essays to the anthologies Communities of Sense (Duke University Press, 2008), Gerhard Richter (MIT Press/October files, 2008), and the catalogues Part Object, Part Sculpture (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2005), Thomas Hirschhorn, Musée Précaire Albinet, and forthcoming catalogues on Gerhard Richter, James Coleman, and Sol LeWitt. Her book Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976, or, The Absence of Work (October Books/MIT Press, 2010) has just been published and she is at work on another book tentatively entitled The Public Inside.

Sadie Benning was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1973 and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Benning received an M.F.A. from Bard College and is currently co-chair of the film and video department there. Benning’s work has been exhibited internationally since 1990 and is in many permanent collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, The Fogg Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center. Recently, Benning’s work in painting and video was included in the Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and in Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Kunstmuseum Basel and Artists Space, NY; Benning’s work has also been included in: Annual Report: 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008); Whitney Biennial (2000 and 1993); American Century, Whitney Museum of Modern Art (2000); and the Venice Biennale (1993). Solo exhibitions include Callicoon Fine Arts, Participant, INC., Wexner Center for the Arts, Orchard Gallery, Dia: Chelsea and The Power Plant. Benning is a former member and cofounder of the music group Le Tigre.

R. H. Quaytman was born in Boston in 1961, studied at Bard College and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris, and received the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in in 2001. Quaytman has taught at Bard College since 2006, in addition to lecturing at Princeton University, Cooper Union, Columbia University, and the Yale University School of Art. In 2005, she co-founded Orchard, a cooperatively- run exhibition and event space that concluded its three-year run on the Lower East Side in 2008. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Insititute of Chicago, the Tate Modern, the Museo Reina Sofia, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others.

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