Rory Rhed Golden

Rory Golden holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. He has served as the Executive Director at The Center for Book Arts been a visiting artist – teaching, exhibiting, creating – at over 135 institutions in 25 states around the USA.  Golden has received fellowships from Yaddo,  the Blue Mountain Center and the National Academy of the Arts and BRIC Media in support of major projects “Your One Black Friend” (2006) and “See Related Story: The Murder of J.R. Warren.” (2006) Other awards include a research grant from Duke University Libraries Special Collections, a Puffin Foundation Grant, residencies at Blue Sky Project and the Manhattan Graphics Center, all towards completing “You Think I Can Eat All This Chicken Here?” (2009 – ongoing).

Rory Golden’s performative works destabilize militarism via public interventions, rituals and acts of propitiation he dubs “fashion actions.” In Duty Free Ranger projects Golden becomes an amplifier and transmitter of secret language that enables justice in some fashion, undoing colonialism on a vibrational level. He has presented at La Mama in NYC as part of NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art & Politics “Emerge NYC” intensive; at the Performance Laboratory (Detroit, MI); at the Radical Archives Conference at NYU and Art in Odd Places in New York City and Sydney, Australia; Itinerant Performance Art Festival; and with No Longer Empty in New York City.  Franklin Furnace Fund Awardee.

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