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English As part of the podcast series, “ArtsAbly in Conversation,” Diane Kolin interviewed Tamar Bresge, an artist, writer and educator from Toronto, currently in the Creative Writing program at California Institute of the Arts.
Photo credit: Rebecca L. Welch
This post presents the resources that Tamar Bresge mentioned during the conversation. The episode will be published soon.
Tamar Bresge’s website
Tamar Bresge is an artist and writer from Toronto, Canada. She works primarily in literary art, performance, and photography, picking at positions of power, hierarchies of bodies, and locating the Self. She likes most paperback books, all kinds of sparkling water, and the Oxford comma. She is half-blind and wholly obsessed by aphorism. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from Tufts University in 2022, where she additionally taught in the Experimental College. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program at California Institute of the Arts.
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Danielle Abrams
Danielle Abrams performed for over 20 years as personae that emerge from her interracial family, and from a lexicon of figures in art history and popular culture. Some of her performances included Quadroon, in which she embodied her black Southern grandmother, and New York Jewish bubbie. In Routine, Abrams cleansed Catskills entertainment of its racist legacy through performing a comedy routine while bathing in a tub of borscht. In After Before the Revolution, she cast herself in Eleanor Antin’s role as a black (and Jewish) ballerina, and reshuffled the tenets of western Modernism as a member of the Ballet Russes accompanied by the Black Panther party. In her latest performance, Nominee, Abrams envisions being interviewed by a panel of African-American artist-politicos, Jewish grandparents, and iconic representations of multiculturalism, including Adrian Piper, the Black Panthers, anonymous notables in the black contemporary art scene, and President Barack Obama.