Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action)

On the 23rd of October 2010, as part of YES! Association / Föreningen JA!’s participation in The Moderna Exhibition 2010, they made an intervention within One-day Seminar on Feminist Strategies and Methods. We Will Open a New Front – Lecture by Lee H. Jones was performed during the symposium in the afternoon where Diana Mulinari, Lawen Mohtadi and Tiina Rosenberg also gave a lecture each. At this occasion Lee H. Jones was played by Lea Robinson, actor and Assistant Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Director of LGBTQ Advising & Programming, at Columbia University.

 

YES! Association / Föreningen JA! collaborated with STUDIO SM to print We Will Open a New Front – Lecture by Lee H. Jones as a poster. The Moderna Exhibition 2010 was curated by Fredrik Liew with Gertrud Sandqvist, Lisa Rosendahl at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

 

On the 20th of November 2010, the actor Vivi Nielsen performed as Lee H. Jones at the Second Congress of Free Artists, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Arhus organized by the Camel Collective. On the 9th of September 2013, the National Election Day in Norway, We Will Open a New Front – Lecture by Lee H. Jones was performed in Bergen at the event Betrayed. This time Lee H. Jones was performed by performance artist Kate Pendry.

 

A copy of the poster is included in the printed matter of 67,3% performative research seminar (2014). The poster was also exhibit during Avhandling / Av_handling (Dissertation / Through_action) (2016).

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

YES! Association / Föreningen JA!, We Will Open a New Front – Lecture by Lee H. Jones (2010). two sided folded poster 70x50cm. Design: STUDIO SM 

 
 
 
 

YES! Association / Föreningen JA!, We Will Open a New Front – Lecture by Lee H. Jones (2010), part 1, video documentation Moderna Museet.

 

YES! Association / Föreningen JA!, We Will Open a New Front – Lecture by Lee H. Jones (2010), part 2, video documentation Moderna Museet.