Another Voice

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FLYP’s editor-at-large David A. Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is a writer, teacher and independent curator.

Emily Roysdon is happy to have been selected to participate in The Generational: Younger than Jesus, the biennial exhibition of young artists now on view on the New Museum. Yet, as a LGBT activist, she is not necessarily comfortable with the idea of being identified with a group of artists simply because she is not yet 33 years old.

Trained as a political scientist, the interdisciplinary artist and writer Roysdon sees the world through the eyes of a woman whose solo work (as well as her previous work as part of the feminist LTTR collective) explores the idea of voice. Who speaks? Who is spoken for? Who controls who is speaking? These are central concerns of many social movements, but in the context of the genderqueer feminist community, the idea of voice takes on additional significance.

Roysdon discusses the origins of the works on view in the show, speaks about the origins of her performance-based visual artwork and expresses her concern for works of art that enhance critical thinking about not the art world, but the larger social context that the art world often ignores.