Lecture: Jonathan González (Webinar)

Jonathan González

The Smallest Unit is Each Other…

Sharing the developing research towards two works: The Smallest Unit is Each Other… and (r-2)2 + z2-LIFE = 1STILL , González shares ephemera, drafted works, and citations of in-process material to elaborate upon their continued study in black revolutionary coordinates, the built environment, and the politics of materiality. Staying with the prescient dialogues of coalition aesthetics and abolition, they offer a perspective towards mobilizing transdisciplinary practice and uses of liveness as social intervention. This lecture includes a presentation of video, image, and sound as well as a dialogue open to all attendees.

Jonathan González (they/them) is an artist working at the intersections of performance, text, sculpture, and other time-based media from Queens, New York. González’s work speculates on the political utility of the “stage” as a method to interface with publics upon systems of liveness, objects, and economies of being that construct the built environment. Their recent projects/collaborations include: 02020 (Performance Space New York), ZERO (Danspace Project), N**GGA F*GG*TS, & WHAT I REALLY MEAN WHEN I SAY “I’M ABOUT TO BURN THIS F**KING BITCH DOWN. (region(es) mag), Not Total (homeschool PDX, Yale Union x Paragon Arts Gallery), Working on Water in collaboration with Mario Gooden (Columbia School of Architecture), h/S: Jonathan González (CICCIO), Maroonage: Elaborations on the Stage and Staying Alive (Contact Quarterly), Lucifer Landing I & II (MoMA PS1 x Abrons Arts Center), black MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). Their curations include Sunday Service @ Knockdown Center and Movement Research Fall Festival: invisible material. Previously an LMCC Workspace Resident, NARS Foundation AIR, Jerome Foundation Fellow, Mertz Gilmore Grantee, Art Matters Fellow, and Performance Art/Theater Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grantee.

Sponsored by the Sculpture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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