A Recital of Citations
Mindy Seu
- Price
- $25 + $2 Convenience Fee*
- Genre
- Theater
- DATE
- DEC 11-12
- TIME
- FRI-SAT, 8 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes
- COUNTRY
- USA
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About
“Recital” and “citation” share the same root: cite. For Mindy Seu, the recital becomes a practice of embodied citation, where research is transformed into collective performance. A Recital of Citations restages two performances alongside a reflection on the lecture performance as an artistic form and its relationship to polyvocality. Seu begins with an augmented reality reading of her book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX, an encyclopedia of more than 700 entries documenting online activism and net art. In the participatory lecture performance A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, these histories are spoken not by a single lecturer but collectively by the audience through a shared script on their mobile devices. Citations become scores, lectures become shared recitations, and the authority of a single speaker gives way to a polyphony of readers.
Please note: A Recital of Citations contains mature content.
the radical edge of digital life.
—
Cultured, Jamieson Webster
about the artists
Mindy Seu is an artist and technologist based in New York City and Los Angeles whose practice focuses on technology-driven performance and publication. In 2023, Seu published CYBERFEMINISM INDEX, a pseudo-encyclopedic book that gathers three decades of online activism and net art. Commissioned by New Museum’s Rhizome and awarded the Graham Foundation Grant, the book’s international book tour featured 89 performative readings across 18 countries with sold-out events at the New Museum (NYC), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Amant Foundation (Brooklyn), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), among others. In 2025, Seu began touring a new lecture performance called A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET along with an eponymous artist book. The Fall 2025 leg hosted sold-out events at Pioneer Works (NYC), KW (Berlin), Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) (Los Angeles), and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) (Tokyo), among others. Her latest writing surveys online cultures, feminist economies, and the materiality of the internet for publications including Criterion Collection and Spike Art Magazine. She has lectured internationally at cultural institutions (MoMA, Barbican Centre), academic institutions (Harvard University, Columbia University, Central Saint Martins), and mainstream platforms (Pornhub, SSENSE, Google), and been a resident at MacDowell, Sitterwerk Foundation, Pioneer Works, and Internet Archive. Her design commissions and consultation include projects for the Serpentine Gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and MIT Media Lab. She was recently featured on the front cover of the LA Times, along with profiles in Vanity Fair, Artforum, Frieze, Dazed, Brooklyn Rail, i-D, and more. Seu holds an MDes from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a BAin Design Media Arts from University of California, Los Angeles. Seu is currently an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts
Photo by Paul McMillen.
