Past Resident

Rory Golden

Rory Golden has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Blue Mountain Center, and the Puffin Foundation for major projects “Your One Black Friend” and “See Related Story: The Murder of J.R. Warren.”  Recent awards for work across media include a research grant from Duke University Libraries, Blue Sky Project, the Manhattan Graphics Center, and the Franklin Furnace Fund.

“My Duty Free Ranger performative works destabilize colonialism and militarism via public interventions, rituals, and acts of propitiation I call #dutyfreeranger ‘fashion actions.’ In these live art projects, I become an amplifier and transmitter of secret language that enables justice in some fashion. I’m wrestling with history and the present moment, erasure, ghosts, demons, hallucinations, desire, dreams, and Euro-US American capitalist heteropatriarchal hegemony.”