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Size: 20 sound files (4 hrs., 52 min.), digital, wav
Summary: An interview with Constance DeJong conducted 2024 June 27, by Leah Singer for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home in Brooklyn, New York.
DeJong, Constance, 1944-
Writer, Artist
Size: 20 sound files (4 hrs., 52 min.), digital, wav
Summary: An interview with Constance DeJong conducted 2024 June 27, by Leah Singer for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home in Brooklyn, New York.
Interviewee Constance DeJong (1944- ) is a writer and performance, audio, and video artist known for her fiction, installations, and collaborative practices. Born in Ohio, she has long been based in New York.
Interviewer Leah Singer (1962- ) is a writer, artist, and musician based in New York, New York.
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
English .
This interview received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
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