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January 16, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Language-Oriented Artist
Jenny Holzer,
Known for Her Provocative Sound-Bite Signs on Buildings and in
Public Spaces,
To Discuss Art and Free Expression in Talk at Smith
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-Jenny Holzer, an
internationally recognized installation artist widely known for
her provocative aphoristic signs and LED displays in public spaces,
will engage in a conversation about art and free expression with
poet Henri Cole at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, in Wright Hall
Auditorium.
The slide talk, which is free, open to the public and wheelchair
accessible, is part of a four-day conference titled "Homeland
Insecurity: Civil Liberties, Repression and Citizenship in the
1950s." More information about the conference is available
at www.smith.edu/civlib.
Holzer has been presenting her astringent ideas, arguments and
sorrows in public spaces for more than 25 years. Her work has
been featured in international exhibitions including the Venice
Biennale, the Dia Art Foundation and the Guggenheim Museums in
New York City and Bilbao. More recently, she has been commissioned
to create memorials for blacklisted writers during the McCarthy
era, concentration camp victims and the war dead. Cole, a friend
of Holzer, has written: "In [Jenny's] practice, humor, kindness
and moral courage are always rivaling ignorance and violence."
Cole, the Grace Hazard Conking Writer in Residence at Smith,
is the author of four noted volumes, including "The Look
of Things" and "The Visible Man."
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