A.I.R. Gallery: "Maxine Henryson - Expressions of Contemporary Feminist Artists and their Processes Session 5 - Displacement / Anything Helps" - 3/29/21

Zini Lardieri, Pisces and Gemini, New York City, 2020. [Image Description: Two people are blanketed in a cream/white duvet surrounded by objects including luggage, boxes, a bed, and other empherma on a sidewalk next to a building.]

Zini Lardieri
Social Practice + Narrative
Monday, March 29, 2021, 9am EST
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84592197420
Webinar ID: 845 9219 7420

"But where simulation or iconoclasm function more or less to counter or obviate the problematics of inside/outside, it is perhaps more to the point to question the validity of the binarism itself. For what is really at issue is the fundamentally unanswerable question of how reality is in fact to be known and in this respect, the truth claims of photography always disputed are increasingly rejected."

Inside/Outside, Abagail Solomon Godeau, “Photography after Photography”

In this lecture, Rosina Lardieri will discuss her ongoing project Anything Helps which is a completely unscientific investigation into homelessness in her immediate neighborhood. Based on connectivity and interpersonal relationships formed on the streets, the project uses signs purchased from the unhoused, photographs, interactional videos, and her own handwritten signs, to create a narrative of acknowledgment while exploring themes of displacement, the vulnerability of bodies in public space, the traces left behind, and the transformation of the public into private space. 

Lardieri will explore the way feminist artists have questioned the nature and politics of representation and used art spaces to reveal and inform about social issues. 

Suggested Readings: 
"The Notion of Family" by Latoya Ruby Frasier
"Things as They Are, Dorothea Lange, Words and Pictures" by Valeria Luiselli
”Things as They Are” by Valeria Luiselli
”Martha Rosler Tackles the Problem of Representation”
https://hyperallergic.com/306182/an-archive-on-homelessness-and-the-housing-crisis-brought-to-life/
Mathew Desmond, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” Crown Books, 201.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “Photography After Photography”, essay, Inside/Out (1995).

Zini Lardieri is an artist working in photography, performance, and installation. An activist feminist landlady who photographs the world around her, Lardieri's work is often collaborative and frequently stems from her desire to record the particulars of interpersonal relationships. She is an artist member of A.I.R. Gallery in New York City and divides her time between New York, Santa Monica, and Venice Beach. 

She has an MA from NYU/ICP and was a participant in the Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program.