EPISODE · Dec 23, 2019 · 39 MIN
Elizabeth Weiser on Jenny Holzer
from WexCast · host Wexner Center for the Arts
For this episode, we're sharing a November 2019 talk by Elizabeth Weiser about the work of Jenny Holzer. The Ohio State Department of English professor explores the language Holzer utilizes in her series of Truisms and Inflammatory Essays, on view as part of the exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin. She also touches on the reactions they spur, and how a museum setting provides important context for the words Holzer initially wheat pasted on the streets of New York City. And Weiser discusses the work in relation to her most recent book, Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces.
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For this episode, we're sharing a November 2019 talk by Elizabeth Weiser about the work of Jenny Holzer. The Ohio State Department of English professor explores the language Holzer utilizes in her series of Truisms and Inflammatory Essays, on view as part of the exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin. She also touches on the reactions they spur, and how a museum setting provides important context for the words Holzer initially wheat pasted on the streets of New York City. And Weiser discusses the work in relation to her most recent book, Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces.
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