Joshua Daniel Lubin-Levy
433 Lorimer St. #3 Brooklyn, NY 11206
[email protected] ! 617.285.5095 ! www.joshualubinlevy.com
Education
Ph.D., Performance Studies, ABD - New York University, New York, NY
MA, Performance Studies, 2010 - New York University, New York, NY
BA, American Studies and Theater, 2006 - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Dissertation: “Uncollectible: Jack Smith and Performing the ‘Hatred of Capitalism’”
Advisors: Professor José E. Muñoz, Professor Fred Moten
Awards and Honors
Scholar In Residence
INFINITE RECORD, a multiyear research collaborative between the Norwegian
Theater Academy (Norway), York University (UK), Kiel University (Germany),
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), 2012 – 2015
Paulette Goddard Scholarship Excellence in Performance Studies, awarded by NYU faculty, 2012
Patricia Dunn Lehmann Award Research in the American Arts, 2012
Corrigan Fellowship
Doctoral Study and Research, 2010
Phi Beta Kappa
Academic Achievement, 2006
Marion G. White Award
Best American Studies Thesis, “Peripeteia: Historical Memory in Action” 2006
Rachel Henderson Award
Outstanding Theater Work, Wesleyan University Theater Department, 2006
Departmental Honors
Senior Thesis both American Studies and Theater Departments 2006
Davenport Grant
Research funding in the social sciences, 2005
Publications
Ephemera as Evidence: Exhibition Catalogue, Edited and co-authored with Ricardo Montez,
commissioned by VisualAIDS, June 2014.
Petite Mort: Recollection of a Queer Public. Authored and edited with artist Carlos Motta, FOREVER &
TODAY Inc., 2011.
“What Was Performance Studies: An Interview with Professor Joseph Roach” Orature, an InterviewBased Project, Performance Studies Department, New York University, 2013 (forthcoming).
“A Conversation with Neal Beasley” Movement Research Journal, 2013.
“Dance in the Museum: ‘Some sweet day’ at MoMA” Performa Magazine, 2012.
“Jibz Cameron: Performing a way out” Dirty Looks ‘zine, 2012.
“Interview with Choreographer Dean Moss” Oral History for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the
New York Public Library. 2011. Excerpt published on the MAPP International Blog, 2011.
Selected Work Experience
Curator. Fred Herko: A Crash Course, Department of Performance Studies (NYU), October 2014,
featuring Danielle Goldman, Richard Move, Heather Love, Ara Osterweil, Marc Siegel, Julia Robinson and
Gerard Forde.
Dramaturg. johnbrown, The Kitchen (NYC), October 2014, by choreographer Dean Moss.
Curator/Archivist. Introduction to Performance Studies, Department of Performance Studies (NYU), Fall
2014, digitzation and curation of a selection of performances for Professor Tavia Nyong’o to be featured as
part of the core curricula for an undergraduate introductory course.
Curator. Ephemera as Evidence, La Mama Galleria, co-curated with Ricardo Montez, commissioned by
VisualAIDS, June 2014.
Curator/Editor. Lumpen: a journal of queer materialism. Co-founded with Alan Ruiz and Aliza Shvarts.
Founder. THE AWARD with Kimberly Bartosik and Dean Moss. Founded an implemented an independent
artist-to-artist mentoring initiative based on New York City’s experimental dance community
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Curator/Organizer, Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies, Department of Performance Studies
(NYU) April 2014, Keynotes: Professors Fred Moten (UC Riverside) and Sianne Ngai (Stanford)
Dramaturg/Associate Director. [email protected] 1963 Interview by Richard Move and Lisa Kron,
Singapore Arts Festival, August 2014 (premiered at Dance Theater Workshop / New York Live Arts, 2011).
Dramaturg. Please, Bury Me. Barishnakov Arts Center, a multimedia performance by director Kaneza
Schaal and artist Christopher Myers and Justin Hicks based on the Egyptian "Book of the Dead"
(forthcoming workshops at PS122 and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, premiering in 2015 at
PS122), February 2014.
Dramaturg. The Sky Remains The Same. New Museum of Contemporary Art, a three part performance art
work by Julie Tolentino in collaboration with Lovett/Codagnone (John Lovett and Alesandro Codagnone),
November 2013. UCLA, Department of World Arts Culture and Dance, May, 2014.
Dramaturg. Volunaries. A dance performance by choreographer Dean Moss based on the legacy of the
abolitionist John Brown. Premiered at MoMA as part of the “Some sweet day…” series, October 2013.
Performer/Dramaturg. All of a Sudden. Abrons Arts Center, a dance performance created in collaboration
with choreographer Jack Ferver, May 2013.
Dramaturg. Two Alike, a collaboration between Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson, DiverseWorks /
Contemporary Art Museum Houston / The Kitchen (NY), September 2011 & May 2012.
Curator. Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public. FOREVER & TODAY INC. a month long series of
queer performance arts works to coincide with the publication of "Petite Mort", co-curated with Carlos
Motta and FOREVER & TODAY, September 2011.
Associate Curator. Anna Deavere Smith Works. With Professor Anna Deveare Smith, Bodies On The Line:
A Symposium on Arts and the Humanities, with support from the Mellon Foundation, October 2010.
Dramaturg. Speaking From the Diaphragm by Vaginal Davis, Performance Space 122, June 2010.
Curator. With Or Without Me, DNA Late Night. Dance New Amsterdam, an evening featuring the work of
emerging queer choreographers, February 2009.
Assistant Director. LEAR, written and directed by Young Jean Lee, SOHO REP, January 2010.
Artist Network Coordinator. Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation. Helped facilitate and organize Robert
Wilson’s extensive archive of performance associates, ephemera and artists in residence, 2009 – 2010.
Producer. Wolf 359, founded by director Michael Rau and playwright Micahel Yates Crowley at venuse
including PS122, HERE! Arts Center and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
Conferences
“Unbecoming archive and the anachoreography of Julie Tolentino” INFINITE RECORD,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November, 2014.
“All This Stuff: Performing a queer materialism” Ephemera & Materiality: American Society for
Theater Research, convened by Professor Shane Vogel and Professor Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson,
November, 2014.
“Terrifying a Nation: Jack Smith’s Photography in an American Apparatus” Queer Art Caucus,
College Art Association, January 2014
"How Do You Map The Sky?" an invited roundtable discussion at The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, with Lia Gangitano (founder of Participant Inc.), Sarah Schulman (author), and Julie Tolentino (artist),
November, 2013
"Corresponding: Jack Smith to David Gurin (ca. 1962) with annotations" INFINITE RECORD, York
University (UK), October, 2013.
"Jack Smith Goes To Work: Performance, Anti-Labor Politics and Andy Warhol’s Factory,”
Rethinking Marxism: Surplus, Solidarity, Sufficiency, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, September, 2013.
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“Punching a hole in time: Queer Value in William E. Jones’ KILLED” Performance Studies
International, Stanford University, June 2013
“Performance, Anti-Labor Politics and Andy Warhol’s “Factory” Rethinking Work: Annual Marxist
Reading Group Conference, University of Florida Gainesville, March 2013
“Trashing the Archive: Jack Smith, New Materialism, and Archive Fever” The Collecting Impulse,
University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, March 2013
“Trashing the Archive: Jack Smith, New Materialism, and Archive Fever” Infinite Record: Archive,
Memory, Performance, Norwegian Theater Academy, February 2013
“An Archive of Waste: Between Jack Smith’s Archive and his Anarchival Wish” Performance Studies
International, Leeds University, June 2012
“If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now: Queer Belonging and the Choreography of Modernism”
The Affect Factory, New York University, February 2012.
“The Appositionality of Form: James Baldwin, Jack Smith and Erving Goffman” James Baldwin’s
Global Imagination, New York University, February 2011.
“Dear Jack: Letters for a contemporary AIDS choreography” Performance Studies Masters
Symposium, New York University, May 2010.
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Faculty, Queer Archives of Place: Performing Ephemera in New York’s Underworld, Gender and
Sexuality Studies, The New School, Spring 2015
Teaching Assistant Introduction to Theater Production, Associate Professor Chris Jaehnig, Drama
Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Fall 2014.
Teaching Assistant Introduction to Performance Studies (Professor Andre Lepecki), Department of
Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Summer 2014.
Teaching Assistant Introduction to Theater Production, Professor Edward Ziter, Drama Department, Tisch
School of the Arts, New York University, Spring 2014.
Teaching Assistant Introduction to Theater Production, Associate Professor Chris Jaehnig, Drama
Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Fall 2013.
Graduate Assistant For Professor José E. Muñoz, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the
Arts, New York University, Fall 2011 through Fall 2013.
Guest Lecturer "Jack Smith and Alternative Installation Practices" for Drawing as Installation, (Visiting
Assistant Professor Alan Ruiz), Pratt University, Fall 2011
Certification GSAS Teaching Certificate Program, “The Art & Craft of Teaching” with Professor Marla
Wolf New York University, Fall 2013.
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