Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer and interviewer active in the field of contemporary art and culture. She is on the School of Visual Arts faculty, active in the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Program, the art history program, and the masters computer art and film programs. She teaches also in the MFA Digital + Media Program at the Rhode Island School of Design and is the program co-ordinator for the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) "MICA in NYC (DUMBO)" Summer Intensive program in Brooklyn, New York. She has published in Artforum, Parkett, Art in America, Artbyte, Guggenheim Magazine, The Village Voice, Tribeca Trib and Camerawork.
Background
Goodeve was born in Middlebury, Connecticut where she lived until her family moved to Windham, Vermont. Her brother is actor Grant Goodeve. She attended the Westover School and Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts.Through NMH, she attended The American School of Tangier where she met Paul Bowles and Mohammed Mrabet, key influences on her becoming a writer. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA from New York University and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She appeared as the graduate student in Yvonne Rainer's 1985 film The Man Who Envied Women. She lives in Brooklyn Heights.
Selected books and texts
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve to date has published the following books and texts (among others): How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway, Ellen Gallagher, A Painter in III Acts, Peter Halley, Louise Bourgeois, The Monster’s Progress: The Art of James Barsness, How A Body Shaped By A Cat and A Cat Shaped by A Human Pioneered A New Species of Cinema in the exhibition catalogue Carolee Schneemann, The Wind is Here But MY Head Is Not in Heide Hatry's book Heads and Tales published by Charta in 2008, and The Body is No Body in the Meat After Meat catalogue.
References
- How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway, Routledge, 1999
- Ellen Gallagherv, Anthony d’Offay, London
- The Horror of No Longer Remembering The Reason or for Forgetting When then Time Comes The Troops Will Do The Remembering, Artforum 1989
- How A Body Shaped By A Cat and A Cat Shaped by A Human Pioneered A New Species of Cinema in exhibition catalogue Carolee Schneemann, Boston: Pierre Menard Gallery, 2007
- Tom Friedman, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (contributor: feature essay)
- Reflections on an Omnivorous Vizualization System: An Interview with Matthew Ritchie, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 2004
- Louise Bourgeois New York, Phaidon Publications (with Paolo Herkenhoff)
- Peter Halley: Maintain Speed, New York D.A.P., (contributor)
- Matthew Barney-Tony Oursler-Jeff Wall, Sammlung Goetz:Munich, Germany 1996 (contributor)
- Eileen Neff: “To See is Neither in nor of the Eye Essay on the photographs of Eileen Neff, Notes Towards A Supreme Fiction exhibition catalogue. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA., 2004
- Guggenheim A to Z , ed. Nancy Spector New York: Guggenheim Museum (contributor)
- The American Art Book, New York, Phaidon Press, 1999 (contributor)
- Cremaster 5 Matthew Barney catalogue (With a text by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Frankfurt am Main; 1997
- Icons of Comic Relief, James Barsness Icons of Comic Relief, catalogue text by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; 1997
- The Spirit of the Doorway" James Barsness, Monster's Progress, Hard Press, West Stockbridge, MA, catalogue essay by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, 1999
- I Heard A Voice, The Art Of Lesley Dill, Words have Wings That Fly From The Mouths of Others: Performance and the Art of Lesley Dill catalogue essay text by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, 2008
External links
- [1] “Mythic Creatures:Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids” A Review of Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Rail, Summer 2007
- [2] “The White Outside the Line: September 11, 2001. A Reader's Response” SF Camerawork, 2004
- [3] “Surrealism and the Cyborg”, Art Lab Spring 2003, Volume 1 (School of Visual Art online publication)
- [4] “The Ear” (Premise for cartoodle) Ars Interpres Publications, Issue 2, September 2004
- [5] “Richard Serra and the Brain: A Form Not Seen Before” Artbrain online journal
- [6] Interview with Aziz+Cuchar,1999, Published as a small booklet
- [7] “Houdini’s Premonition: Virtuality and Vaudeville on the Internet”, Leonardo Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon, October/November 1997
- [8] “Travels in Hypertrophia: An Interview with Matthew Barney” Artforum, May 1995
- [9] “How Like A Goddess: An Interview with Allucquére Rosanne Stone” Artforum September, 1995
- [10] “The art of Public Address” : Barbara Kruger - Interview - Cover Story, Art in America, Nov, 1997
- [11] Rainer talking pictures - independent filmmaker Yvonne Rainer - Interview, Art in America, July, 1997
- [12] Book Review: “The Cyborg Handbook”, ed. Crystal Hayes in ArtForum, Summer, 1996
- [13] “Dream team: A Conversation with The Brothers Quay in ArtForum, April, 1996
- [14] Book Review: “The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Debate” ArtForum, March, 1994
- [15] Book Review: “The Politics of Everyday Fear” ArtForum, Summer, 1994
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