Performance-in-Place: From the Personal Collection of Eileen Myles

Performance-in-Place:
From the Personal Collection of Eileen Myles

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
8 to 9pm EST

This event was held on Zoom

Exterior of Myles’ home. Work by Glen Hanson. [Image Description: A photo of the side and roof of Eileen Myles’ home. The wall is gray, and has an neon orange circular window frame. Above the roof is a blue sky.]

Poet and novelist Eileen Myles led a tour of their home in Marfa, Texas, discussing a variety of works in their extensive art collection, which includes paintings by Robin Bruch, Xylor Jane, and Charline von Heyl, photography by Jack Pierson, Ace Morgan, and Gail Thacker, and assemblage by Morgan Norwood. Myles elaborated on specific pieces, and drew connections between each of these artists and the personal memories associated with the objects and artworks in their home.

Access Information: This performance included live ASL interpretation and captioning.

To read a transcript of the event, please click here.

Bio

Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. Their twenty-two books include For Now, an essay/talk about writing from Yale Press (forthcoming, fall 20) evolution (poems), Afterglow (a dog memoir), a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. They showed their photographs in 2019 at Bridget Donahue, NYC. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 they received an award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.