Branden W. Joseph

Columbia University

September–December 2008

Branden W. Joseph is associate professor in the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University. He is the author of Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Cambridge, 2003), editor of the volume Robert Rauschenberg (Cambridge, 2002), and author of Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works (Evanston, Ill., 2005). He is editor of the influential journal Grey Room and his writings have appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Art Journal, October, Critical Inquiry, Texte zur Kunst, and Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne. His Clark project is to begin a five-chapter book critically investigating the notion of performance, with chapters on Carolee Schneemann, Lee Lozano, Vito Acconci, David Hammons, and Mike Kelley.