J.W. Mahoney - Sun. January 18, 2007
J.W. Mahoney is a Washington, D.C.-based artist, critic, and independent curator who serves as Washington’s Corresponding Editor for Art in America. He is currently a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and has been writing and curating on the idea of transmodernity since 1992. His most recent nationally published piece on this subject was “Transmodern Yoko,” which appeared in Art in America in February 2002. His latest one-person show, “Stella Maris,” was on exhibit in January 2007, at Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C..
Project Name: The Transmodern Manifesto
Project Description: Mahoney will pass out copies of a 7 to 8-page document, printed on day-glo orange paper, which details the fundamental elements of the Transmodern - which is an attitude, not a movement - in contrast to the post-postmodern. He will be dressed in a Japanese worker’s jacket, and will accompany the distribution of the document with lit incense and music from a portable CD player.
