11
Jan/21

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON’S THE ELECTRONIC DIARIES

11
Jan/21

Still from Lynn Hershman Leeson’s The Electronic Diaries (1984–2019) (courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue, New York)

Who: Lynn Hershman Leeson
What: Special screening and conversation
Where: The New Museum online
When: Tuesday, January 12, free with RSVP, 8:00
Why: In advance of her upcoming “Twisted” exhibition at the New Museum, which opens June 30, Cleveland-born, San Francisco–based artist Lynn Hershman Leeson will present a free screening of her video The Electronic Diaries, which she has been compiling since 1984, examining her life in such segments as “Confessions of a Chameleon,” “Binge,” “First Person Plural,” and “Shadow’s Song.” Part of Rhizome and C-Lab Taiwan’s “First Look: Forking PiraGene,” the screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist.