Catherine Quan Damman
Selected Writings & Talks
Reviews & Essays
Best Books of 2021
Bookforum, Winter 2021
On My Barbarian
Artforum, November 2021
On Tiffany Sia at Artists Space
Artforum, Summer 2021
On Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS1
Frieze, April 2021
On Lorraine O’Grady
Artforum, March 2021
On Tishan Hsu at SculptureCenter
4Columns, October 2020
Nina Menkes’s Queen of Diamonds
BOMB, Summer 2020
Ligia Lewis's minor matter and Water Will (In Melody)
Artforum, September 2019
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Marys Seacole
Artforum, May 2019
On Veep
4Columns, April 2019
Robert Ashley’s Improvement: Don Leaves Linda
Artforum, April 2019
On Marlon Riggs
4Columns, February 2019
Moriah Evans’s Configure
Artforum, January 2019
Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, and Ishmael Houston-Jones's Them (pdf)
Artforum, November 2018
Loren Connors’s Wildweeds and Unaccompanied Acoustic Improvisations Vol. 10
Artforum, October 2018
Presence at the Creation: On Judson Dance Theater (pdf)
Artforum, September 2018
Yve Laris Cohen's P.S. 122
Artforum, Summer 2018
Richard Maxwell's Paradiso
Artforum, March 2018
“See Change: Remembering Trisha Brown”
Bookforum, Summer 2017
“Simone Forti: Lesson in Suppleness”
Art Journal, Spring 2017
Richard Maxwell’s Showcase
Artforum, December 2016
Brian Getnick’s Moonchops
Riting, October 2016
Samara Golden at YBCA
Artforum, April 2016
Martine Syms’s Misdirected Kiss
Artforum, February 2016
Aki Sasamoto’s Skewed Lies / Parallel Stare
Artforum, July 2015
Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust...
Artforum, June 2015
Yve Laris Cohen’s Fine
Artforum, May 2015
Julia Heyward at the CCA Wattis
Artforum, May 2015
Ligia Lewis’s Minor Matter
Artforum, February 2015
Sarah Michelson’s 4
Women & Performance, January 2015
Steve Paxton at Dia:Beacon
Artforum, November 2014
Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine's illummminnnatttionnnsssss!!!!!!!
Artforum, April 2014
Rituals of Rented Island at the Whitney
Art in America, March 2014
Pope.L’s Cage Unrequited
Art in America, December 2013
Ryan McNamara’s ME3M
Art in America, November 2013
My Barbarian’s Universal Declaration of Infantile Anxiety...
Art in America, October 2013
Dance and Process at the Kitchen
Art in America, June 2013
Best Books of 2021
Bookforum, Winter 2021
On My Barbarian
Artforum, November 2021
On Tiffany Sia at Artists Space
Artforum, Summer 2021
On Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS1
Frieze, April 2021
On Lorraine O’Grady
Artforum, March 2021
On Tishan Hsu at SculptureCenter
4Columns, October 2020
Nina Menkes’s Queen of Diamonds
BOMB, Summer 2020
Ligia Lewis's minor matter and Water Will (In Melody)
Artforum, September 2019
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Marys Seacole
Artforum, May 2019
On Veep
4Columns, April 2019
Robert Ashley’s Improvement: Don Leaves Linda
Artforum, April 2019
On Marlon Riggs
4Columns, February 2019
Moriah Evans’s Configure
Artforum, January 2019
Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, and Ishmael Houston-Jones's Them (pdf)
Artforum, November 2018
Loren Connors’s Wildweeds and Unaccompanied Acoustic Improvisations Vol. 10
Artforum, October 2018
Presence at the Creation: On Judson Dance Theater (pdf)
Artforum, September 2018
Yve Laris Cohen's P.S. 122
Artforum, Summer 2018
Richard Maxwell's Paradiso
Artforum, March 2018
“See Change: Remembering Trisha Brown”
Bookforum, Summer 2017
“Simone Forti: Lesson in Suppleness”
Art Journal, Spring 2017
Richard Maxwell’s Showcase
Artforum, December 2016
Brian Getnick’s Moonchops
Riting, October 2016
Samara Golden at YBCA
Artforum, April 2016
Martine Syms’s Misdirected Kiss
Artforum, February 2016
Aki Sasamoto’s Skewed Lies / Parallel Stare
Artforum, July 2015
Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust...
Artforum, June 2015
Yve Laris Cohen’s Fine
Artforum, May 2015
Julia Heyward at the CCA Wattis
Artforum, May 2015
Ligia Lewis’s Minor Matter
Artforum, February 2015
Sarah Michelson’s 4
Women & Performance, January 2015
Steve Paxton at Dia:Beacon
Artforum, November 2014
Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine's illummminnnatttionnnsssss!!!!!!!
Artforum, April 2014
Rituals of Rented Island at the Whitney
Art in America, March 2014
Pope.L’s Cage Unrequited
Art in America, December 2013
Ryan McNamara’s ME3M
Art in America, November 2013
My Barbarian’s Universal Declaration of Infantile Anxiety...
Art in America, October 2013
Dance and Process at the Kitchen
Art in America, June 2013
Catalogue & Exhibition Texts
“Reach & Spread,” in Paul McCarthy: Headspace, Drawings 1963–2019 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2020
“Living Female Respondent,” text for Jennie Mary Tai Liu choreographic commission in conjunction with Merce Cunningham: Clouds and Screens, LACMA, Los Angeles 2019
Notes on Performance, with Mark Beasley and David Grubbs, Greater New York Readers, MoMA PS1, New York 2015
“Control Group” in Jared Bark: Photobooth Pieces. Hunter’s Point Press / D.A.P., 2016
“On Roots and Reckoning” on Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2014
Performance text for Adam Linder's Choreographic Service No. 3: Some Riding at the ICA London [skip to 25:00]
“Reach & Spread,” in Paul McCarthy: Headspace, Drawings 1963–2019 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2020
“Living Female Respondent,” text for Jennie Mary Tai Liu choreographic commission in conjunction with Merce Cunningham: Clouds and Screens, LACMA, Los Angeles 2019
Notes on Performance, with Mark Beasley and David Grubbs, Greater New York Readers, MoMA PS1, New York 2015
“Control Group” in Jared Bark: Photobooth Pieces. Hunter’s Point Press / D.A.P., 2016
“On Roots and Reckoning” on Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2014
Performance text for Adam Linder's Choreographic Service No. 3: Some Riding at the ICA London [skip to 25:00]
Invited Talks
“Carl Cheng: Experiments in Art & Catastrophe,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, April 2021
“Placeless Performance: With Friends,” Bennington College Visual Arts Lecture Series, Bennington, VT, May 2020
“The Bigger Picture: How the New MoMA is Remaking History,” Artforum public panel, New York City, September 2019
“Regeneration,” L.A.B. (Language, Art, Bodies) Series at The Kitchen, New York City, September 2019
“The Work of Art in the Age of Half-Hearted Reproducibility,” Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, February 2019
“Revelations: Performance in the 1970s,” PAM, Los Angeles 2017
“Carl Cheng: Experiments in Art & Catastrophe,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, April 2021
“Placeless Performance: With Friends,” Bennington College Visual Arts Lecture Series, Bennington, VT, May 2020
“The Bigger Picture: How the New MoMA is Remaking History,” Artforum public panel, New York City, September 2019
“Regeneration,” L.A.B. (Language, Art, Bodies) Series at The Kitchen, New York City, September 2019
“The Work of Art in the Age of Half-Hearted Reproducibility,” Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, February 2019
“Revelations: Performance in the 1970s,” PAM, Los Angeles 2017
Interviews
Candice Lin
BOMB, Fall 2021
Carolyn Lazard
BOMB, Fall 2020
Saidiya Hartman
Artforum, July 2020
Ligia Lewis
BOMB, Spring 2019
Candice Lin
BOMB, Fall 2021
Carolyn Lazard
BOMB, Fall 2020
Saidiya Hartman
Artforum, July 2020
Ligia Lewis
BOMB, Spring 2019