Rape Jokes

Vanessa Place, J.D., M.F.A., was the first poet to perform as part of the Whitney Biennial; a content advisory was posted. Exhibition work has appeared at MAK Center/Schindler House; Denver Museum of Contemporary Art; The Power Plant, Toronto; the Broad Museum, East Lansing; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; and Cage 83 Gallery, New York. Recent performance venues include Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art; Mestno Musej, Ljubljana; Swiss Institute, New York; the Kitchen, New York; Andre Bely Center, St. Petersburg, Russia; Kunstverein, Cologne; and Whitechapel Gallery, London. Books include Boycott; Statement of Facts; La Medusa; Dies: A Sentence; The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law; Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Robert Fitterman; her translations from the French of Guantanamo (poetry, Frank Smith) and Image-Material (art theory, Dominique Peysson); and her art audiobook, Last Words. Place also works as a critic and criminal defense attorney.
CONTACT Vanessa Place, J.D., M.F.A. 127 Riverside Drive, #43, New York, NY 10024.