RECENT SHORT FORM WORKS

Video Slink Uganda: The Felicity of Mistranslation (2013)
Essay for curatorial project about experimental video shorts by African/African-American artists burned onto pirated DVDs and distributed throughout Uganda. Artists include Akosua Adoma Owusu, Kamau Patton,  Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Rashaad Newsome, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Hank Willis Thomas and Terence Nance, and  Saya Woolfalk. Support: apexart Franchise exhibition.

BOOKS

Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition
Northern Lights.mn, Walker Art Center, REV-,
Spring 2012
Editor/Designer: Marisa Jahn

NYC Launch Wed Oct 10, 2012:
REV- and The Cooper Union present
an evening of pleasurable and productive friction!
'Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition'
Cornel West, Graham Burnett, Saskia Bos, Jill Magid, Carl DiSalvo, McKenzie Wark, Mendi+Keith Obadike, Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau, Anjum Asharia, and Marisa Jahn. READ MORE...

ABOUT THE BOOK

‘Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition’ is a book that explores the productive possibilities of ‘agonism,’ or a relationship built on mutual incitement and struggle. Designed in black and blue — the colors of a good bruise — ‘Pro+agonist’ brings together writings by interdisciplinary artists, scientists, CEO’s, crackpots, war strategists, psychotherapists, and philosophers who raise questions about the importance of political dissent, the function of discord in discourse, the rules of escalating conflict, the roles of parasites within systems, the ins and outs of concord and congress, and more. The introduction, written as a disagreement between a cast of fictional characters, is (arguably) more stimulating than if it were written from a single, unified perspective. Readers will emerge with a greater appreciation for duking it out and taking it to the streets.

Contributors: Anjum Asharia, John Seely Brown, D. Graham Burnett and Cornel West, Carl DiSalvo, Marisa Jahn, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Chantal Mouffe, Warren Sack, Steve Shada, Mark Shepard, Doris Sommer, McKenzie Wark, Coleson Whitehead.

Byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Artistic Practices
YYZ Books & REV-,
Winter 2010-2011
Editor: Marisa Jahn

Byproduct presents texts from a variety of artists, activists, curators, and interdisciplinary thinkers that interrogate projects by cultural practitioners “embedded” in industries, the government, and other non-art sectors. Working with the physical systems and symbolic languages of these institutions, these cultural agents develop projects—or “byproducts”—that produce meaning contingent on their hosts. Whether the works are explicitly polemical or instrumentalized by their hosts is up for debate…

Contributors: A Constructed World, Tejpal S. Ajji, Allan Antliff, Paul Ardenne, Grant Arnold, Artist Placement Group (Barbara Steveni), Au Travail / At Work, Gina Badger, Kadambari Baxi, Ingrid Baxter, IAIN BAXTER&, Claire Bishop, Adam Bobbette, Lawrence Bogad, Andrew Boyd, John Seely Brown, Ian Clarke, Maureen Connor, Natalie De Vito (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Joseph del Pesco, Connor Dickie, Peter Eleey, Experiments in Art and Technology, Kent Hansen (democratic innovation), Kate Henderson, Luis Jacob, Michelle Jacques, Marisa Jahn, Janez Jans¹a, Janez Jans¹a, Janez Jans¹a, Tomas Jonsson, Lev Kreft, Michelle Kuo, Lisa Larson-Walker, Adam Lauder, Kristin Lucas, Steve Mann, Antanas Mockus, Amish Morrell, Joshua Moufawad-Paul, Darren O'Donnell (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Michael Page, Kathleen Pirrie-Adams, Reverend Billy (Billy Talen and Savitri D.), Pedro Reyes, John Searle, Michel Serres, Josephine Berry Slater, Matthew Soules, Felicity Tayler, The Yes Men, Vincent Trasov (Mr. Peanut), Camille Turner (Miss Canadiana), Etienne Turpin and DT Cochrane, Merve Ünsal, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Stephen Wright

Recipes for an Encounter
Editors: Marisa Jahn, Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins
Winter 2009/2010

An interdisciplinary exploration of the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed...

Contributors: Adrian Blackwell, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Center for Tactical Magic, Max Goldfarb, Karen Hakobian, Janice Kerbel, LIGNA, Vahida Ramujkic, Francisco J Ricardo, Noa Treister, Jaime O’Shea, The Shakers of Enfield, Matt Volla, Sharif Waked & Molly Keogh

Western Front
Release Date: Fall/Winter 2009
cultural studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and political science.

Shopdropping: Studies in Reverse Shoplifting
Pubisher: The Collective Foundation
April 2007
Edited by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada

A catalog contextualizing the work featured in "Shopdropping," an exhibition curated by Pond that explores projects that involve placing artwork into places of commerce.

Contributions by Terri Cohn, Alan Moore, Robby Herbst, Steve Lambert | introduction by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada | Catalog essay ("The Paradox of Likeness") by Marisa Jahn
http://www.mucketymuck.org

RECENT INTERVIEWS

Agonizing over "Agonism": Exploring How Difference Can Fuel Democracy
Susy Bielak and Ashley Duffalo in conversation with Carl DiSalvo, Marisa Jahn, Warren Sack, and Mark Shepard about agonism.
Walker Art Center Blog,2012

Embedded Art Practices
On the eve of Jahn's newly released book, 'Byproduct', curator Joseph del Pesco interviews her about the outcomes and processes of embedded art practices.
Art Pulse Magazine, 2012

REVIEWS, ARTICLES, ESSAYS

Green Cart Vendors Face Diet of Challenges
Marisa Jahn & Marc Shavitz
City Limits Magazine, New York, 2012
An investigative article that critically examines New York City's fresh produce vendor program and points towards

"Pedagogy of the Hot Tub: Notes on the Institute for Social Research in the SF Bay Area"
Marisa Jahn & Joseph del Pesco.
Proximity Magazine Issue #2, Chicago, Fall 2008
A review of project initiated by Christian Jankowski with students at the California College of Art that meditates on the aestheticization of '60s-inspired collectivism.

"Allora & Calzadilla" @ CCA Wattis Center & SFAI Walter and McBean" (Nov - Jan /08)
Marisa Jahn
Shotgun Review, San Francisco, 1/5/2008
A review of works by the artist collaborative Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla — videos that slip between simple observations and allegory...a museological presentation of ethnographic artifacts of war...theatricalizing the gallery experience so that the visitor becomes a spectator inculpated in the production of war...

"On Being an Exhibition" @ Artists Space (10/12-12/8/07)
Marisa Jahn
Stretcher, San Francisco, 10/30/2007
A review of works by Germaine Koh, Isola & Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh

Shopdropping: Three Case Studies
Marisa Jahn
Crosswalks, April 2004
A precursor to the later essays I wrote and co-wrote about the notion shopdropping, this article contextualizes the work of Zoe Sheehan Saldana, Packard Jennings, and Conrad Bakker.

The Way Things Could Work: Prisoner's Inventions Project Finds Inspiration in Prisoner's Everyday Designs
Marisa Jahn
Clamor Magazine (Bowling Green, Ohio), January 2005
A review of an exhibition and book by the art group Temporary Services who collaborated with a prisoner named Angelo to document the do-it-yourself knick knacks, devices, and methods invented by prisoners to go about their daily lives.

THESIS FOR MS AT MIT (MAY 2007)


MetaFormances: The Hermeneutics of Play in Language, Art, Life
Marisa Jahn
in collaboration with Ronnee Holmes, manager of FlutterFetti Fun Factory; my mailman; Josh Greene; strangers in Boston/Tokyo/San Francisco/Philadelphia; a pervert; a Dutch man; a pinata maker; a lover of cars; various fetishists; and more.

Thesis readers: Ute Meta Bauer &, Francisco Ricardo, & THE FBI!!!

Miming the protocol of business form letters, the letters request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and illicit behavior in order to transform the letter. The recipients' correspondence signals their readiness to play, to accept their role in the transubstantiation of the letter, to believe in the metaphysical force of the delicate printed word.

JOURNAL

Where We Are Now: Locating Art & Politics in NY
Issue #3: Aftermath
Editors: Berin Golonu and Marisa Jahn
Contributors: Johan Lundh, Tina Gerhardt and Robert S. Eshelman, Alan Smart, Megawords, Taraneh Hemami, E. Tammy Kim, and Maureen Connor
Launch: May 10, 2010 at Bluestocking Books

Issue #2: Speculating on Change
Editors: Joseph Grima, Marisa Jahn, Carin Kuoni
Contributors: Tom Angotti, Celine Condorelli, Melanie Crean, Bryan Finoki, Beatrice Gibson, Carlos Motta, Andrew Ross, Ben Shepard, Mark Tribe, Merve Unsal
Launch: Oct 17, 2009 at Storefront for Art & Architecture

Issue #1: The Aesthetics & Politics of Intimacy
Editors: Marisa Jahn & Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Contributors: Svetlana Boym, Rene Gabri, Joseph Grima, Ed Halter, Jill Magid, Dave Rankin & Marisa Jahn, Mary Anne Staniszewiski
Launch: June 28, 2009 at New School