Constance DeJong

PROVENANCE: Courtesy of the Artist

An image-text work on paper of hand drawing and writing on a custom-made photograph. From NIGHTWRITERS, a project of spoken word texts performed and recorded; an on-line iteration (Triple Canopy publisher); image-text works on paper. Subject: Astronomers Caroline Herschel, Annie Jump Canon and Henrietta Swan Leavitt write the nightsky.

 

Constance DeJong is a writer, artist and performer, producing fiction writings and language/image based work for performance, audio and video installations, audio objects and user-navigated digital formats. Her first book, Modern Love, originally published

by Standard Editions with Dorothea Tanning in 1977, was re-issued in March 2017 by Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse. She has permanent audio-text installations in Beacon, NY, London and Seattle. DeJong has twice collaborated with Tony Oursler on live performances; was a collaborator on Super Vision, A Builders Association production (2005); librettist for the opera, Satyagraha, composer Philip Glass. She produced and exhibited a series of re-engineered radios programmed with spoken word-foley tracks, written, performed, recorded and mixed by DeJong, 2016-18.  NightWriters, a digital text-image project, was published on-line by Triple Canopy, March 2018; and, Bureau gallery exhibited NightWriters drawings, audio works and a performance, April-May 2018. The Renaissance Society, Chicago, exhibited her audio work and a performance November 2018. She is an editor of the book, Tony Conrad Writings, 2019, Primary Information, publ. A survey of her works will be exhibited March 19 – May 3, 2020, Leubsdorf Gallery, NYC.  DeJong is represented by Bureau, NYC.