“Dancing On My Own” Book Launch and Artist Lecture with Simon Wu

Simon Wu is a writer and curator involved in collaborative art production. He is a PhD student at Yale University and his essay collection, Dancing On My Own (Harper Collins), was published in June 2024.

Merray Gerges is an Egyptian essayist, editor, and writing teacher based in New York. While studying art history at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, she co-founded and edited CRIT, a free biannual print-only criticism publication. From 2016 to 2019, she held various editorial positions at Canadian Art. She was the inaugural 2019-2020 editorial fellow at C Magazine, where she conceptualized and edited three themed print issues addressing facets of systemic change in the art world. She recently completed her MFA in narrative nonfiction at New York University. She is an Associate Editor at Momus.