Jimmy Raskin

Jimmy Raskin was born in Los Angeles in 1970, and currently lives and works in New York.

 Raskin began his career as a poet. At 19, Raskin stopped writing poetry to devote himself to exploring and manifesting the conditions under which what he calls ‘the Poem’ might remain an achievable possibility in today’s world. Toward this end, Raskin has unwaveringly developed a theatrical multimedia universe, fluidly combining writing with sculptures and the production of props for lecture performances. Collages appear alongside videos, cartoons, and diagrams of what he has determined to be the essential existential problems confronting the central figure of the ‘Poet Pure.

Links

Corner Jump

Interview

Exhibitions include

• P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY

• Centre Pompidou, Paris

• Real Art Ways, Hartford

• The Swiss Institute, Paris

• KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.