This lecture is presented in partnership with Mercer Union. 

Mason Leaver-Yap works with artists to produce texts, exhibitions, and events. Recent projects include work with Lizzie Borden, Scott Rogers, Leslie Thornton, Lucy McKenzie and Atelier EB, Andrea Büttner, Moyra Davey, Pat Hearn, Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Sharon Hayes, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Marwa Arsanios, and Renée Green. They live in Glasgow and Berlin.

Mediated Monologues is a continually changing lecture structure that examines the relations of intimacy. Spanning experiences of friendship, loss and violence, this project thinks about the spaces in which intimacy occurs (forcefully or otherwise) and how intimacy is expressed verbally and in published/public form.