Join multimedia artist Janine Antoni at the CCL Talk to explore her 30-year career, where she uses her body to infuse physicality into art across various mediums. Register quickly for this unique Hong Kong event to engage with her thought-provoking work and creative journey, hosted by Assistant Professor Elaine Ng.
LECTURE ABSTRACTS SPEAKER BIOGRAPHYJoin us for the upcoming CCL Talk by the award-winning multimedia artist Janine Antoni.
Janine Antoni (b. 1964, Freeport, Bahamas) received her BA in 1986 from Sarah Lawrence College in New York before earning her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. She is known for her unusual processes, using her body as both a tool and a source of meaning within the conceptual framework of her practice. Over a 30-year career, her conceptual works employ a wide variety of materials (from food to stone) and mediums (including photography, solo and collaborative performance, sculpture, and video) to emphasise the meanings attached to art-making. By way of her body of work, Antoni carefully articulates her relationship to the world, giving rise to emotional states that are felt in and through the senses. In each piece, no matter the medium or image, a conveyed physicality is meant to speak directly to the viewer’s body.
We are privileged to host Janine Antoni, who is currently based in New York. This rare visit to Hong Kong offers an invaluable opportunity to engage firsthand with the renowned artist. Be prepared to be inspired as Janine discusses her career and latest projects with Elaine Ng, Assistant Professor at AVA.
Enrollment for the talk is on a first-come, first-served basis. Register now to secure your spot and seize this exciting opportunity. Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email thereafter.
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In the early 1990s, Janine Antoni began to perform mundane rituals—eating, sleeping, and washing—and transformed them into sculptures, centering attention on creative processes, often from a female perspective. For one of her most internationally acclaimed works, Antoni created Lick and Lather (1993), a set of 14 self-portrait busts, seven in chocolate and seven in soap. Initially the busts looked identical to each other, and to Antoni, until the artist licked the chocolate busts and bathed with the soap, effacing them to create a collective portrait of artistic presence and absence, likeness and alienation. Lick and Lather also reflects on the history of representation: the chocolate and soap recall both the classical bronze and marble sculptures of antiquity and the variable nature of cast sculpture, all while questioning ideals of female beauty and desire.
Antoni has had major exhibitions of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; S.I.T.E. Santa Fe; and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. She is also a recipient of several prestigious awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999, Janine Antoni currently resides in New York.