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The Yale School of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of A.L. Steiner as Senior Critic in Film/Video. Currently the Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow in Photography for 2018, A.L. Steiner will begin her new appointment as Senior Critic in January 2019. Steiner’s approach within the the genres of film, video, and lens-based media emphasizes the role of the artist as critical cultural producer, exploring the traditions of collage and montage established by such landmark filmmakers as Maya Deren, Chris Marker, Barbara Hammer, and Harun Farocki.
Professor and Dean Marta Kuzma noted at the time of A.L. Steiner’s appointment as the Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow in 2018: “Steiner will contribute to fostering the necessary conversations around what may be at stake for the practicing artist who grapples with a complex and regressive social, political, and economic landscape. She will undoubtedly create substantive pedagogical exchanges, unraveling what she has referred to as the ‘interconnected and dependent conditions which lead to decision-making processes.'”
With her prolonged appointment at the Yale School of Art, Dean Kuzma adds: “Descriptively, A.L. Steiner ‘utilizes constructions of photography, video, installation, collaboration, performance, writing and curatorial work,’ but moreover Steiner has mastered the device of the critical collage and in many ways inverted and re-contextualized the integrity of Bertolt Brecht’s practice through the perspective of a self-professed skeptical, queer, ecofeminist androgyne—in an effort to address the relevant and very much needed still-to-be-unpacked convergence of the political and the erotic, and the validation of a collective and community.”
A.L. Steiner is co-curator of Ridykeulous, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), a collective member of Chicks on Speed, and collaborates with numerous writers and artists. Her work is featured in permanent collections such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum, Bard's Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. She is the recipient of the Tiffany Foundation Award, The Berlin Prize, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Currently she is curating 12 Moons: Moon 12 at the Schwules Museum in Berlin, and her text "For The We/Dispossession is the I" will be published in Creative Time's forthcoming book, Making Another World Possible (Routledge, 2019).
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