{"id":6708,"date":"2017-09-29T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2018-05-25T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:04:27","slug":"lenore-malen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/lenore-malen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenore Malen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1222\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6708-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lenoremalen.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lenoremalen.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lenoremalen.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/lenoremalen.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6722 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bScreen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-9.00.27-PM-copy-copy.png?resize=230%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bScreen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-9.00.27-PM-copy-copy.png?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bScreen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-9.00.27-PM-copy-copy.png?resize=768%2C777&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bScreen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-9.00.27-PM-copy-copy.png?resize=696%2C704&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bScreen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-9.00.27-PM-copy-copy.png?resize=415%2C420&amp;ssl=1 415w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bScreen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-9.00.27-PM-copy-copy.png?w=981&amp;ssl=1 981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>Lenore Malen<\/a> is a New York based interdisciplinary artist. In 1999 she invented <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewsociety.org\/\">The New Society for Universal\u00a0Harmony<\/a>, a fictional re-creation of an l8th century utopian society, and ever since she has used the lens of history\u2014and humor\u2014to explore utopian longings, dystopic aftermaths, and the sciences and technologies that inform them.<\/p>\n<p>She uses diverse media in all of her projects, incorporating performance, photography, film\/video, multi-screen projection, installation and fiction writing.\u00a0 Recently her\u00a0explorations have focused on ecology, on cultural myths, and on the unstable boundaries between humans and animals.\u00a0She\u2019s currently working on a film \u201cScenes From Paradise,\u201d a dark comedy in which the cautionary tale, Eden, is made newly relevant by the ticking clock of climate change, habitat loss and extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Malen received a BA in Art History from Skidmore College, a MA in Art history from the University of Pennsylvania. She received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and NYFA and NYSCA awards in Interdisciplinary Art. She teaches in the MFA Fine Arts Program at Parsons\/The New School.<\/p>\n<p>The books mentioned in the interview are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adam-Eve-Serpent-Elaine-Pagels\/dp\/B000GJP7H6\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1506620234&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Adam+and+Eve+and+the+Serpent\">Adam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/history-and-obstinacy\">History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0Cary Wolfe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/B\/bo14171850.html\">Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Lenore here with <a href=\"http:\/\/lenoremalen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Scenes-from-Paradise-Malen-1.pdf\">Scenes from Paradise<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lenoremalen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NewSociety.pdf\">New Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6709\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6709 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?resize=640%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?resize=696%2C391&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?resize=1068%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?resize=747%2C420&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Art-Omi-Adam-and-Eve-LM.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes From Paradise (Live Performance) Art Omi International Art Center, Omi New York 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6710\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6710 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?resize=640%2C391&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?resize=1024%2C625&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?resize=768%2C469&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?resize=696%2C425&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?resize=1068%2C652&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?resize=688%2C420&amp;ssl=1 688w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Acquinus-Studio-Installation-2015.jpg?w=1072&amp;ssl=1 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acquinas (Studio Installation) 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/lenoremalen.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listLenore Malen is a New York based interdisciplinary artist. 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