"If you had to pick two conversations that defined the last 10 years in art, one would certainly be about digital culture and online life. The Other would be about race, racism, and representation. The critic and artist Aria Dean has been at the center of both these conversations. As a theorist, her essays on these topics are much cited. You can find them gathered in the recent collection Bad Infinity, from Sternberg Press."
"The Color Scheme focuses on an imagined meeting in the 1920s in Berlin, between two Black intellectuals, one called The Poet and the other called The Philosopher. It may be as close as Dean has come to totally fusing her work as a thinker with her work as an art maker. It literally stages a conversation about Black culture, politics, and art."
Aria Dean has been central to two defining art-world conversations over the past decade: digital culture and online life, and race, racism, and representation. Her essays on these topics are widely cited and collected in Bad Infinity (Sternberg Press). Dean worked at Rhizome.org, an important venue advocating for digital art. As an artist she has shown in major exhibitions including the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. Biennial and the Whitney Biennial. For Performa she staged The Color Scheme, a two-person theatrical work imagining a 1920s Berlin meeting between two Black intellectuals. The piece fuses theoretical concerns with performance and will tour to Berlin, signaling engagement with art history and new perspective.
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