Morgan Bassichis
Morgan Bassichis | |
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| Born | 1983 |
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Morgan Bassichis (born 1983) is an American comedic performer and writer, living and working in New York City.[1]
Early life
[edit]Bassichis was born in Newton, MA in 1983.[2] Bassichis actively participated in theater growing up. Their parents were progressive social workers.[3]
They inherited political zeal and musical taste from their mother.[4] After graduating from college, they worked for ten years as an anti-prison activist and educator in San Francisco.[5]
Politics
[edit]Bassichis is active in the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace.[6]
Artistic practice
[edit]Performances
[edit]- Can I Be Frank? - La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club - Directed by Sam Pinkleton - (2024)
- A Crowded Field - Abrons Arts Center - (2023)
- Questions to Ask Beforehand - Bridget Donahue Gallery - Directed by Tina Satter - (2022)
- Don't Rain On My Bat Mitzvah - Creative Time - Rashid Johnson's Red Stage - Co-created with Ira Khonen Temple - (July 4, 2021)
- Nibbling the Hand That Feeds Me - 2019 Whitney Biennial - curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta[7]
- Klezmer for Beginners - Abrons Arts Center - Co-created with Ethan Philbrick - (2019)
- Damned If You Duet - The Kitchen - (2018)[8]
- More Protest Songs! - Danspace Project - (2018)
- Me But Also Everybody (Part IV) - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - (2018)[9]
- The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical - the New Museum - (2017)[10]
- Senior Energy - Portland Institute for Contemporary Art - (2017)[11]
- Me, But Also Everybody! (Part 1-III) - MoMA PS1 - (2015)[12]
Grants, residencies, & awards
[edit]- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation - 2017 Resident[13]
- Art Matters Foundation - 2015 Grantee[14]
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - 2015 Process Space Artist[15]
Writing
[edit]- The Odd Years (Wendy's Subway, 2020)[16]
- Essay in the 2019 edition of The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (Nightboat Books)[17]
- co-ed. Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy's Subway, 2023)[18]
Further reading
[edit]- Brewer Ball, Katherine (June 22, 2017). "Interview with Morgan Bassichis". BOMB magazine.
References
[edit]- ^ "[WORLD PREMIERE] Morgan Bassichis and Ethan Philbrick: Klezmer for Beginners". Abrons Arts Center. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ^ "Partial View: Whitney Biennial 2019". www.whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Brostoff, Marissa (2019-05-23). "Morgan Bassichis's Haunted American Songbook". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Brostoff, Marissa (2019-05-23). "Morgan Bassichis's Haunted American Songbook". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ^ Brostoff, Marissa (2019-05-23). "Morgan Bassichis's Haunted American Songbook". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ^ Black-Jewish Alliance in Conversation: Jewish Radical Futures
- ^ "Whitney Museum Announces 2019 Biennial Participants, But One Artist Withdraws". Hyperallergic. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "The Kitchen: Morgan Bassichis: Damned If You Duet". thekitchen.org.
- ^ "Morgan Bassichis, Me But Also Everybody (Part IV) (2018)". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ^ "Morgan Bassichis: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions The Musical, Pt. I". www.newmuseum.org.
- ^ "Morgan Bassichis and Senior Energy". PICA. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ^ "MoMA PS1: Greater New York: Morgan Bassichis Me, But Also Everybody! (Part II) : Thursday, December 10, 2015". momaps1.org. Archived from the original on March 24, 2019. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
- ^ "Past Residents". Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 15 October 2014.
- ^ "Morgan Bassichis". Art Matters Foundation.
- ^ Studio, Familiar (11 April 2019). "Morgan Bassichis". Movement Research. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ Rodney, Seph (2020-10-09). "Documenting These Last Few Years In Order to Survive Them". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ "Faggots, Dykes, and Fairies: Welcome to the world of "The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions"". Interview Magazine. 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah on the publisher's website
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- 1983 births
- Living people
- Brown University alumni
- American contemporary artists
- American non-binary artists
- American non-binary writers
- LGBTQ people from Massachusetts
- Jewish American anti-Zionists
- American anti-Zionists
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American writers
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people