“Readings on Embarrassment” – On the occasion of the launch of PERSONA* and Material Evidence**, with Melissa Gordon
 
*PERSONA
is an artist-led magazine co-edited by Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt and designed by Kaisa Lassinaro. It is the second in a series of magazines that grew out of the need to respond to questions that arose during four meetings of female artists entitled “A conversation to know if there is a conversation to be had” held in New York, Amsterdam, Berlin and London in 2010–11. The first journal, LABOUR, addressed the question of women's work, and used the lens of the feminist critique of unpaid labour to look at the contemporary condition of the artist as precarious worker. PERSONA as a jumping off point looks at the condition of self-presentation for the contemporary artist, and in an expansive manner encompasses discussions on refusal, interiority, friendship, candor, and embarrassment. 

Including: Gina Ashcraft, Isla-Leaver Yap, Lucy Skaer, Céline Condorelli and Avery F. Gordon, Jen Liu, Josephine Pryde and Sabeth Buchmann, Audrey Reynolds, Eau de Cologne, Rita McBride, Eva Kenny, Chris Kraus with Alison J. Carr, Karolin Meunier, Marie Lund, Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt, Nadia Hebson, Daria Martin, Sue Tate, Jo Freeman, and Elisabeth Subrin.
 
Hosts: Maria Guggenbichler and Yolande van der Heide
Serving: Dirty Feminist Martinis !!