AARON LANDSMAN.
an award-winning multidisciplinary artist obsessed with cities, shadows, anonymity and how we perform power.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Aaron Landsman is a multidisciplinary artist. Born in Minnesota, living in New York City, he is obsessed with cities, shadows, anonymity and how we perform power. His parents are a Jewish teacher and legal scholar and a non-Jewish teacher and writer. Aaron's recent work Night Keeper premiered at The Chocolate Factory Theater in 2023, and is now out as an album on Hallow Ground Records, created in collaboration with composer Norman Westberg (ex-SWANS) and performer Jehan Young. He is working on a game that is a performance score about algorithms. His prior work has been commissioned and presented in the US, Netherlands, UK, Australia, Norway, Serbia and Belarus. Aaron is the founder of Perfect City, a working group at the intersection of art, organizing, popular education and design. His awards include a Creative Capital Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Princeton Arts Fellowship. He is the instigator of Perfect City, a 20-year working group dedicated to uplifting local knowledge in cities and changing power dynamics in communities. He co-authored The City We Make Together with Mallory Catlett, published by The University of Iowa Press. Additional pieces of writing have appeared recently, or will soon, in Urban Omnibus, Longleaf Review, The Iowa Review, Spoon River Poetry and Theater Magazine. He is a Lecturer at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.
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Artist Website.
In fact, there’s a wonderful seed of aggression buried deep in the tissue of City Council Meeting. The work deliberately
LETS US EXPERIENCE BOREDOM,
but only in an inverse relationship to
HOW WILLING WE ARE
TO GET INVOLVED.
-TIME OUT NY
GALLERY.
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CREDITS: Night Keeper, An Album by Aaron Landsman, Norman Westberg, and Jehan Young, photo by Brian Rogers; Headshot by Maria Baranova; Perfect City, Abrons Art Center, photo by Andrew Federman; Perfect City, Tempe, photo by David A. Brown; all other photos courtesy of the artist.