People Talking: Jill Magid, Anthony Elms, and Sara Geelan on “With Full Consent, Jill Magid”

People Talking: Jill Magid, Anthony Elms, and Sara Geelan on With Full Consent, Jill Magid
Panel Discussion and Book Launch
Thursday, November 20
6 – 7:30pm
$10; members and students $5

Artist Jill Magid launches her Artists as Gardens commission with a conversation between herself, curator Anthony Elms, and attorney Sara Geelan. The conversation looks at how the parts of With Full Consent, Jill Magid fit together: the artwork, its installation at Calder Gardens, and the new monograph from Dancing Foxes Press. Magid, Elms, and Geelan place the project within Magid’s conceptual practice and the legal, governmental, and bureaucratic systems that shaped it.

After the talk, Magid will sign copies of With Full Consent, available in the Calder Gardens Shop.

The installation With Full Consent, Jill Magid is on view at Calder Gardens for four days only, November 20 to 23.

Jill Magid lives and works in New York. Her work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others. She has staged solo exhibitions at institutions including Tate Modern, London; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her first feature documentary, The Proposal, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Her awards include a Netherland-American Foundation Fulbright Grant, the 2017 Calder Prize, a 2020 Creative Time Artist Commission, a 2021 Via Art Fund Grant, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. She received a BFA from Cornell University and an MS in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Magid is represented by Olney Gleason, New York, and LABOR, Mexico City.

Anthony Elms is artistic director at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. Recently, he organized Rodney McMillian: Neighbors for the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, and the TD Curated Spotlight for New Art Dealers Alliance, New York. Formerly of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, he organized the exhibitions Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal (with Ars Nova Workshop; 2021), Karyn Olivier: Everything That’s Alive Moves (2020), Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It (2018), Endless Shout (2016–17), and Rodney McMillian: The Black Show (2016), among others. Elms’s writings have appeared in many catalogues, edited collections, and periodicals. His independently organized exhibitions include the 2014 Whitney Biennial; Interstellar Low Ways (with Huey Copeland); A Unicorn Basking in the Light of Three Glowing Suns (with Philip von Zweck); and Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954–68 (with John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis). He is a member of the New York Art Critics Association.

Sara Geelan is Senior Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs & General Counsel of the Barnes Foundation, where her practice concentrates on nonprofit corporate governance; matters related to the foundation’s art collection, exhibitions, commissioning of artwork, publications, charitable giving matters, and intellectual property; and institutional risk-management and responsibility for government relations. Prior to joining the Barnes Foundation, she was senior counsel at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and associate general counsel at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before working in museums, she practiced trusts and estates law in the Individual Client Services department of Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP, in New York. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Johns Hopkins University.

People Talking presents conversations exploring themes central to Calder Gardens and contemporary culture, emphasizing storytelling and interdisciplinary exchange. Led by artists, cultural producers, and scientists, each program reflects Calder’s experimental ethos, nuanced understandings of movement and transformation, and innovative approaches to engaging with the environment today. 

Programming at Calder Gardens is generously supported by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz; The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston; Donna Green; Michael Sternberg; and the Friends of Calder Gardens.