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Performances, Presentations, and Community-Oriented Art Programming 2022 “Ancient
Pentathletes and Modern Misconceptions: A Celebration of Title IX.” Panelist Artist
talk “McSpheres:
Material Culture Models.” Community workshops in conjunction with exhibition
“Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” at Harvard Art
Museums “Sports
Garb/led: Drawing Connections Between Ancient Art, Athletes and Title IX.”
Multimedia workshop for youth from Community Art Center, Cambridge,
Massachusetts “Sports
Garb/led: Interdisciplinary Interventions.” Artist talk “Victorious Secret: 50th
Anniversary of Title IX.” Artist talk Hosted by Independent
School Gender Project Symposium 2021 Fine
Arts Lecture Series. Artist talk “Beyond
the Reading Room: Archives in the World” virtual lecture series. Artist talk “Sports
Garb/led: Workshop” 2020 "Art
in Isolation with Angela Lorenz, Walt Whitman, Primo Levi, and r.ed
monde." Artist talk 2019 “Bookworks
Performance: Angela Lorenz” in Tisch Family Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center,
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. “Bologna (Salumi) Sample” In order to recreate
the charcuterie artwork based on the inaugural 2014 performance, the artist
produced an edition of majolica trivets in 2017. Appropriately, the piece
debuted at Tufts University Art Gallery (TUAG) during a lunchtime artist talk.
TUAG’s Liz Cantor hunted down Bolognese specialties at Formaggio Kitchen, a
well-known local specialty food shop, and precisely cut the cured meat into
specified dimensions for the artist to arrange on the trivet. “The Clothes that Bind:
Identity, Performance and Apparel in Athletics and Society.” Panel speaker Lettere Salate e Dolci,
International Edible Book Festival “Outstanding Contribution
to the Art of the Book.” Award recipient. Artist talk and Chewing Tzu (1993) performance Performed with four volunteers from the
audience at the annual gala when the artist was celebrated for “Outstanding
Contribution to the Art of the Book.’”This edible performance piece, created
fresh each time, has been performed over 50 times. It was first performed in
1993 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and, as of this printing, was most
recently performed at Tufts University Art Gallery in 2019. It has also been
offered to the public as an amuse bouche distributed in absence of the artist
at group exhibitions at Yale University Art Gallery in 2002 and the Addison
Gallery of American Art in 2017. Other notable venues include Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art in 2000 and the Farnsworth Art Museum in 1996, where
it was chewed on TV per request by veteran journalist Bob Dyk. “United States of
Bologna, 200 anni di amicizia a stelle e strisce.” Video interview projected at
Cappella Farnese, Comune di Bologna, Italy 2018 Conversation
with scholar Massimo Riva R.ed
Day at the Hay: A r.ed-themed Scavenger Hunt To celebrate Lorenz’s exhibition of
watercolors and ephemera, the John Hay Library hosted a scavenger hunt.
Twenty-six r.ed cloth figurines were hidden all over the three floors of the
library for students to find and win prizes if they found all the locations. “Victorious Secret: Women
Athletes in Ancient and Modern Times.” Artist talk and panel discussion for
Parents and Family Weekend “Visual
Artist Angela Lorenz on Artistic Experimentation.” Interview for “Tell Me More”
podcast. Available at
https://soundcloud.com/user-491829505/visual-artist-angela-lorenz 2017 Artist talk at
Rockefeller Digital Humanities Lab. Family Weekend programming Artist talk for the The
Medici Society “I
Care.” Panel participant for “Who Cares? A 75th Anniversary Symposium” R.ed
in Residence. Weeklong, student-designed, campus-wide scavenger hunt
incorporating social media; Artist talk for Family Weekend 2016 “Women Athletes as Family
Status Symbol: Goals for Daughters in the Roman Empire.” Artist talk 2015 “Angela Lorenz: The
Artists’ Books.” Gallery talk “Entertaining
Notions of Elite Ideals for Women, 300 A.D.” Artist talk followed by an open
house with Lorenz’s artist’s books on display in the Henry Charles Lea Library,
University of Pennsylvainia. Part of the Penn Humanities Forum Lecture Series
“SEX” “Pedagogical Seminar:
Italian Through Art.” Speaker “Rainy Day Windfalls:
Chance Encounters in the Archive of Angela Lorenz.” Gallery talk, SG Gallery “Victorious Secret: Elite
Olympic Champions as Dancing Bikini Girls.” Artist talk followed by “print your
own keepsake” at Yale Library’s The Bibliographical Press 2014 Artist talk and open
house with Lorenz’s works in Special Collections and Archives Hosted by Special
Collections and Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University; funded by Friends
of the Library, Office of Equity and Inclusion, the Athletics Department, and
Special Collections and Archives, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut “Bologna
(Salumi) Sample” at Lettere Salate e
Dolci, International Edible Book Festival The inaugural performance of this parody of
the artist’s work Bologna Sample
(1992). It was auctioned off to the highest bidder, Faith Willinger, guest of
honor at the festival. Note to curators and conservators: certain items of
charcuterie will invariably be missing each time the installation is recreated,
even in Bologna, as tastes change. Life, Life, Eternal Life: Uncle Wiggily Meets The Pilgrim’s Progress
(2006). Played game with students “Living in These Bodies.”
Artist talk related to exhibition of same name. “What Artists Study.”
Artist talk related to exhibition of same name 2013 Artist talk Collective Alphabet Book
workshop Hosted by Art Department
and Book Arts Workshop, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire “History in 3-D: Ancient
and Modern Examples of Modeling Knowledge, East and West.” Artist talk Life, Life, Eternal Life: Uncle Wiggily Meets The Pilgrim’s Progress
(2006). Played game with community Performance
of CAGE: 4 Notes in 33 Variations. Light
Verse Magazines Vol. 4 (2010) This sound piece plays the letters C-A-G-E,
which are made up of pins hammered into a music box cylinder. When the handle of the altered music box is
turned, the comb drags along conceptual artist and musician John Cage’s last
name. Each of the 33 music boxes is slightly different according to variations
in the placement of the pins, and in the combs that were repurposed from other
songs. It has been played at numerous public venues since its creation; it does
not require the presence of the artist. However, the most ironic performance
took place in 2013 when the artist turned the cylinder and the comb failed to
engage with the pins. The sound of silence unintentionally replicated John
Cage’s original 4:33 composition. “Sartelibro”
at Arte e Artigianato in Dialogo 2012 “The
Artist’s Book as Theater of Knowledge: When Communicating Becomes Learning.”
Artist talk Artist
talk and book presentation Artist
talk and presentation of The Mansion of
Thought: Making Knowledge Visual in Three Dimensions, East and West (2012)
dedicated to Elli Garvey Artist talk on Wordscapes/Parolaesaggi: Text from the
Landscapes of Edward Lear (1812-1888) (2012) Collective Alphabet Book
workshop Hosted by Rhode Island
School of Art and Design, Providence, Rhode Island; funded by the Watts Program
for the History and Culture of the Book, John Carter Brown Library, Providence,
Rhode Island Collective Alphabet Book
workshop Hosted by Scuola
Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia, Venice, Italy 2011 Artist
talk 2010 History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology Colloquia. Speaker. “False Documents and
Other Illusions.” Gallery talk and audio guide related to exhibition of same
name Caccia al Tesoro Smeraldo 2009 Artist
Talk for “Conversation With Artists” speaker series 2008 Artist
talk and Chewing Tzu (1993)
performance “The
Autocrat at the Automat: Oliver Wendell Holmes Meets Joseph Cornell.”
Installation of community artist responses to prompts regarding anatomy
professor and author Oliver Wendell Holmes’ unusual analogies to explain
scientific phenomena. 2007 Artist
talk on Pandora’s Book (2012) Barbara Lee Lecture
Series. Artist talk Gallery talk Life, Life, Eternal Life: Uncle Wiggly Meets
The Pilgrim's Progress (2006). Artist talk for International John
Bunyan Society conference “Early Modern Religion and Literature in Old and New
England” “Research in the Works.”
Speaker “At the Turn of the Centuries: The Influence of Early Twentieth-Century
Books on Contemporary Artists’ Books” symposium Hosted by Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 2006 Artist
talk with performance of Chewing Tzu
(1993) and Soap Story (1999) Artist
talk for Portland/Bologna Sister City Association “Passepartout” National Italian TV program
hosted by Philippe Daverio Aired by Rai3 TV, Italy, on December 3 Soap Story (1999)
at Yale University Library Open House This instance of public participation in
revealing the text of Soap Story (1999)
is just one of over 100 public events that have happened by the time of
publication of this overview of Lorenz’s career in 2022. The text of Soap Story is revealed when the
participants wash their hands with one of the six bars of soap encasing six
pages of printed text, which are released as the soap is consumed. As with this
event, public engagement with Soap Story
is often part of a larger event, enticing readers to learn more about artists’
books and the libraries which steward them. 2005 “Il Libro d’Artista in
Emilia Romagna.” Gallery talk related to exhibition of same name 2004 “Libri d’Artista e
Biblioteche.” Panel speaker at conference Hosted by Artelibro
Festival del Libro d’Arte, Bologna, Italy Memorial
reception to honor life of Julia Child. Created edible commemorative mementos
with rhyming text 2003 Artist talk Artist talk with
performance of Chewing Tzu (1993) and
Soap Story (1999) 2002 “Ulisse Aldrovandi e la
forza dell’immaginazione.” Panel speaker at symposium Hosted by Dipartimento di
Psicologia, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy The Theater of Nature (2002). Panel lecture, book presentation with
rhyming poetic text translated into Italian and performed by Beniamino Sidoti Hosted at SAIS Europe
Auditorium, Bologna, Italy; funded by Associazione di cultura e studio
italo-americana “Luciano Finelli,” Bologna, Italy and Friends of Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland 2001 Artist talk I Ghiaccioli/The Popsicles Outdoor performance involving popsicle sticks
gilded with ancient text, fake melted popsicles in a display case, and real
popsicles with conceptual flavors relating to the aphorism of ancient wisdom.
The public chose a popsicle stick with the text that most resonated with them
and presented it to the artist in exchange for a popsicle flavor. The artist
collaborated with Gianni Figliomeni of Gelateria Il Gelatauro, which still
brands Gelatauro’s popsicle sticks with ancient wisdom relating to the
time-based activity of consuming a frozen treat. The artist, in collaboration
with Il Gelatauro, continue their conceptual flavor work annually for the
“Gelato Ritrovato” event hosted by Cinema Ritrovato in which 100-year-old
conceptual recipes by G. E. Grifoni complement annual film festival themes. The
idea of the fake melted popsicles with related text eventually became Palate Palette: Ancient Pops of Wisdom
(2017). 2000 Artist
talk Artist talk with
performances of Entropy (1987) and Chewing Tzu (1993). On occasion of solo
exhibition “Libri d’Artista di Angela Lorenz” Memorial
reception to honor life of Tony Zwicker. Created edible commemorative mementos
with rhyming text 1999 Artist
talk 1996 Entropy
(1987). Time-based media consisting of four pages with text encased in ice This piece was first created in response to a
prompt in a 1987 RISD course taught by Janet Zweig: depict a process. Each time
the piece is recreated with found text from local daily newspapers collaged
into a narrative. Entropy was
performed for a solo show in Monza, Italy, in 1988, and for an artist’s book
fair in the castle of Belgioioso, Italy, in 1991, attracting wide media
attention in Italy. In 1996, it was created for a live audience at the
Farnsworth Art Museum on the occasion of a lecture and solo exhibition. Interview with Bob Dyk
including a performance Chewing Tzu
(1993) Aired by WMTW-TV (ABC
affiliate), Portland, Maine, on August 4 1993 Artist
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