On April 27th, 2025 at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, I was honored to join Elisabeth Millqvist, Director of Moderna Museet Malmö; Gina Duncan, President of BAM and former Producing Director of Sundance Film Festival; and Cyra Levenson, Deputy Director of The Guggenheim Museum. The critical question we framed for decision makers in Abu Dhabi as they grow their cultural institutions was, “How can cultural institutions enable art to get closer to life?”
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, join artist Marisa Morán Jahn aka Aphrodite, goddess of love and copper, and other special guests answer your questions about relationships, betrayals, or revelations (bodily or terrestrial) You’ll hear from experts whose work depends on copper, and hear about how copper has been used in reproductive technology for oh, at least the past few millennia. You just might find yourself smitten with this mineral’s “electrowinning” superpowers that humans have harnessed for the past 10,000 years — so bring your copper IUD.
A talk at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Dec 3, 3021
Monday October 3, 2022 at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch. Marisa Morán Jahn in dialogue with: Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator; Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum; Cyra Levenson, Deputy Director and Gail Engleberg Director of Education and Public Engagement, Guggenheim; Introduction by independent curator Amy Rosenblum Martín. Hosted by Cora Fisher, Curator of Visual Art Programming, Brooklyn Public Library
A talk at Creative Time Summit, Jan 2020, in which I transform into Aphrodite…
A 45 minute talk about my ongoing collaboration since 2010 with domestic workers (nannies, housekeepers, caregivers) wherein I also detail HOW I go about these kinds of collaborations. For more info see careforce.co
An artist’s talk at the University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Lecture Series on January 24, 2019 that erupted in 800 cheers. Opening remarks by Chrisstina Hamilton.
Presentation as part of the 2018 Fall Civic Media Art lecture series hosted by MIT Art, Culture, Technology and Comparative Media Studies. Intro by Sasha Costanza-Chock; Respondents Steve Seidel, Dir of Arts and Education Program at Harvard School of Education; Jane M. Saks, Director of Project &.
Keynote Address at Open Engagement, Chicago, 2017.
Presentation at 2016 Creative Capital retreat.
Commercially pirated Hollywood actions, Nollywood dramas, and Bollywood musicals reach millions of Ugandans every month. VJs (or “video jockeys”—think interpreters + carney barkers + stand-up comedians) play a unique linchpin in this media ecology: they liberally translate these films into the local language. In 2012, Jahn collaborated with Paul Falzone, a tactical media organizer in East Africa, and three VJs to insert artwork onto commercially pirated DVDs and into bibanda (public video halls where bootlegs are shown). In 2016, Jahn — who was weaned on martial art films — will collaborate with Bruce Lee fans in Uganda and elsewhere to create Sino-Afro-futurist dispatches sent to the past, present, and future. The resulting videos will be sent to outerspace and slinked onto bootlegs. Read more: http://www.creative-capital.org/projects/view/851