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Soapbox Response on the High Line
5 – 6pm
Location
Join us this election season for Soapbox Response, an opportunity to reflect on artist Zoe Leonard’s (b. 1961, Liberty, NY) 1992 text-based work I want a president. SoapBox Response invites artists, activists, and thinkers to share contemporary responses to Leonard’s work.
The piece is presented as a 20 x 30 foot wheat-paste installation adjacent to the High Line at West 13th Street, and was originally written the year that poet Eileen Myles ran for president as an independent candidate alongside George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. The text calls for a president who more accurately represents neglected and disenfranchised communities.
What would performance artists, poets, theater directors, and writers like to see their president be in 2016? Come discover it together, and join the conversation.
Featuring:
Shaun Leonardo
James Scruggs
Amir Parsa
Ivan Monforte
Meera Nair
Caron Atlas
Mahina Movement
Nancy Agabian
Mariposa Fernandez
Sol Aramendi
Jaret Vadera
Natalie N. Caro
Pauline Park
Paulina Perera-Riveroll
Risa Shoup
Susana Torruela Leval
Diya Vij
Andrea Louie
Marisa Lerer
“I want a president…(a collective reading-DC)” in partnership with Visual AIDS
…among many others
Support
Zoe Leonard, I want a president, is presented by High Line Art and The Standard, High Line.
Major support for High Line Art comes from Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Additional funding is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Dorothy Lichtenstein. High Line Art is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council and from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
