[DEV] Podcast: Season 8, Episode 6, “Post/Doc” Re’al Christian, JJJJJerome Ellis, and Diana SeoHyung

Season 8

This special summer episode includes a live recording of the Spring issue of Post/doc, co-published by Momus and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. The collaborative issue of the VLC’s biannual publishing series for discursive, speculative, experimental writing, and artistic practices features a new sound work by artist JJJJJerome Ellis and a new text by writer Diana SeoHyung, both reflecting on the theme of intervals—on languaging, language breaks, aphasia, riffing, and repeating. This recording of the launch, which took place in early May at Storm Books & Candy, in Brooklyn, includes SeoHyung’s reading of her text 가는 길: Decision to Leave / On Leaving / Leaving, and Ellis’s performance of Havensong. The episode is introduced by Lauren Wetmore in conversation with Re’al Christian, Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the VLC, about originating Post/doc, and her own writing and editorial practice.

This episode is supported by Marian Goodman Gallery and The Blue Building. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, with production assistance from Chris Andrews.

Hosts: Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden

About the Guests

About the Guests, and more

JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. JJJJJerome has the great privilege of being married to poet-ecologist Luísa Black Ellis. They live in a monastery on a creek in traditional Nansemond and Chesepioc territory, aka Norfolk, VA. JJJJJerome dreams of building a sonic bath house!
Re’al Christian is a writer, critic, editor, and art historian based in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Artforum, and ART PAPERS, where she is a contributing editor. She has written catalogue and exhibitions texts for CUE Art Foundation, the Hunter College Art Galleries, Prospect New Orleans, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Performa, as well as anthologies including Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism.
Diana SeoHyung is a New York based writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She is an immigrant, born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in Queens, New York, and is a mother of a six-year-old called Mark.