June 1 - 30, 2017

Katherine Cooper

Art Writer in Residence

Katherine Cooper

Part of SWAP

Katherine Cooper
Katherine Cooper

Katherine Cooper  courtesy of the writer

For her SPACES Art Writer Residency, Katherine Cooper will conduct a series of interviews with artists in Cleveland to investigate the politics and aesthetics of intimacy in artistic practice. Conversing with artists in Cleveland to arrive at a working definition of "intimacy," Cooper will allow her research to be informed by the artwork itself as well as theoretical texts. Her professional experience as a sex and relationship advice columnist at Playboy Magazine and her year and a half long journey around the globe writing about that experience and asking individuals questions about intimacy in their own lives will also bolster the research-based writing.

These interviews with artists as well as her attendance to galleries, artist studios, and museums (such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Toledo Museum of Art) will inform her critical, associative and personal writing about aesthetics, intimacy and the northeast Ohio region which she'll publish daily on her website

About the Artist

Katherine Cooper

Katherine Cooper has written everything from insightful interviews to cultural critiques to in depth journalism for Playboy, BOMB Magazine, and Women & Performance Journal, among others. At Playboy, she wrote the weekly advice column "Just The Tips" with a modern take on manners, mores, and ethics of sex and love.... go to artist page

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