On the occasion of the exhibition Monument to My Paper Body by Ulrike Müller, we are pleased to invite you to a book talk with Rachel Haidu, art historian and critic, about her most recently published book Each One Another on Sunday, June 9, 2024, at 12 pm. The book talk will be followed by a conversation between Rachel Haidu and Ulrike Müller (in English).
With Each One Another, Rachel Haidu argues that contemporary art can teach us how to understand ourselves as selves—how we come to feel oneness, to sense our own interiority, and to shift between the roles that connect us to strangers, those close to us, and past and future generations. Haidu looks to intergenerational pairings of artists to consider how three aesthetic vehicles––shape in painting, characters in film and video, and roles in dance––allow us to grasp selfhood. Better understandings of our selves, she argues, can drive our thinking about identity and subjecthood towards more generative ends.
Rachel Haidu is an art historian and critic and Associate Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers 1964-1976 (2010) and has written a number of essays, most recently on the work of James Coleman, Yvonne Rainer, Gerhard Richter and Sol LeWitt. Each One Another. The Self in Contemporary Art was published by the University of Chicago Press in July 2023.
