Two books by Renée Green have recently been published, both distributed by DAP: Ongoing Becomings 1989-2009 and Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams. To celebrate them, PARTICIPANT INC hosts a screening of Green's film Endless Dreams and Water Between (2009), and a conversation with the artist on the evening of Sunday, January 22, 2012.

A major aspect of Green’s work makes a distinct departure from the stalemate of 1990s identity politics with its proscribed set of cultural/historical positions. In contrast, Green’s significant contribution could be described as ‘embracing influence,’ in order to move beyond it. Rather than pointing out the failure or death of previous movements, repositories of knowledge and action are used to reconstitute the potential that art may still possess; rather than expressing generational conflict or anxiety of influence, Green’s aesthetic and conceptual methodologies exhibit an engagement with others, past and present. And by doing so, in the present, Green manifests a new set of conditions of the now, of becoming.