Talk and Publication Launch: Patricia Reed and Autograph Press

Patricia Reed, Remote Signals and Proximate Noise
Caitlin Berrigan, A voice becomes a mirror plane becomes a holohedral wand
Friday, February 17, 4–6pm

JOAN presents a talk by Berlin-based artist and theorist Patricia Reed as part of Caitlin Berrigan’s exhibition, Cassandra with a flood in her mouth. This program coincides with the launch of Berrigan’s A voice becomes a mirror plane becomes a holohedral wand, designed by Ella Gold, the first publication of JOAN’s new imprint, Autograph Press. More info on Reed’s presentation below.

Diagram courtesy Patricia Reed, “The End of a World and its Pedagogies,” in Making & Breaking #2, 2021.

Worlds are crafted in language and substance, prose and boulder, poetry and ash, word and artifact. From within Berrigan’s world of the exhibition, this talk examines modeling in artistic practice as a gesture summoning interaction with unfamiliar temporalities, narrative correspondences, and material situations demanded by planetary historicity; itself understood as a post-critical moment. Through the lens of intra-scalar practice, we’ll discuss how such model-worlds serve as vehicles for conceptual and sensorial dishabituation, where the ‘stuff’ of said model-worlds furnishes a particular habitat of fictional objectivity, enabling access to possible states of resolute mattering. At what resolution does possibility become recognizable, and through what conditions of a human sensorium can that be discerned from the noise of this entangled present?

Patricia Reed is an artist, theorist, and designer based in Berlin. Recent writings have been published in Ceremony: Burial of an Undead World, Sound – Space – Sense, The Unmanned, Pages Magazine, Glass Bead Journal, The New Normal, Construction Site for Possible Worlds, e-flux Journal and e-flux Architecture. Reed is an affiliate researcher in the Antikythera program, United States, and teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands. She co-wrote the Xenofeminist Manifesto as Laboria Cuboniks which was republished by Verso in 2018, with subsequent books in Greek, Korean, French, and Spanish. A compilation volume of Reed’s works will be released by Holobionte Ediciones (Spanish) in 2023.

The Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture is funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and based in Caltech’s Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. In collaboration with The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, the program features undergraduate course offerings, guest lecturers, and other programming to foster conversations between humanists and scientists.