Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer, interviewer, artist, and teacher active in the field of contemporary art and culture.
Goodeve was born inMiddlebury, Connecticut, where she lived until her family moved toWindham, Vermont. Her brother is actorGrant Goodeve. Her maternal great-great-grandfather was the Vermont politician andUnion Army ColonelWilliam T. Nichols, while her paternal great-great-grandfather was Orvil (sometimes spelled Orville) Grant, a younger brother of U.S. PresidentUlysses S. Grant.[1] She attended the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut andNorthfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) in Massachusetts. In 1975, through NMH, she attended theAmerican School of Tangier where she metPaul Bowles andMohammed Mrabet, key influences on her career as a writer.[2] She received a B.A. fromSarah Lawrence College (creative writing, film, philosophy), an M.A. fromNew York University (cinema studies), and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz underDonna Haraway andJames Clifford.[2] She lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Goodeve is known both as an essayist and as an interviewer. She writes on diverse topics ranging from vaudeville to cyborgs to the art of doodling, and she has published in such respected periodicals asArtforum,Parkett,Art in America,Artbyte,The Guggenheim Magazine,The Village Voice,The Brooklyn Rail,Art Agenda, andCamerawork. From 2017 to 2019 she was the Senior Art Editor ofThe Brooklyn Rail, following which she became an Editor-at-Large. She has interviewedMatthew Barney,Yvonne Rainer,Ellen Gallagher, theBrothers Quay,McKenzie Wark,Tim Rollins and K.O.S.,Aziz + Cucher, andCarolee Schneemann.[3] Her book-length conversation with the influential science and technology scholar Donna Haraway offers a wide-ranging and intimate introduction to Haraway's challenging work.[4] Among other things, she argues that science fiction offers a model for Haraway's imaginative theorizations.[5]
Goodeve has also written onJeff Koons,Raymond Pettibon,Tony Oursler,Michael Joaquin Grey,Matthew Ritchie,Joseph Nechvatal,Heide Hatry,Eve Andrée Laramée, andLesley Dill.
As a performer, Goodeve has appeared in works byYvonne Rainer, Joseph Nechvatal,Bradley Rubenstein, and Ellen Harvey. She appears as the graduate student in Yvonne Rainer's 1985 filmThe Man Who Envied Women.
From 1995 to 1997, Goodeve worked as a research associate at theWhitney Museum of American Art on the American Century Exhibition. From 1998 to 1999, she was Senior Instructor at the Whitney Independent Studio Program.[6] Since 1999, she has been on the faculty of theSchool of Visual Arts, teaching in the M.F.A. programs in Art Criticism and Writing; Art Practice; and Computer Art.[3] She has also taught in SVA's undergraduateart history and film programs.
Outside of New York, Goodeve has taught at theRhode Island School of Design and is the program coordinator for theMaryland Institute College of Art summer intensive program in New York City.[citation needed]
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