ETHAN
PHILBRICK
Ethan Philbrick is a cellist, artist, writer, and curator. He is currently curator-in-residence at The Poetry Project and a member of the curatorial collective for Offerings. In 2023, Philbrick published Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence with Fordham University Press. He is part of the musical-theatrical project DAYS and has presented solo and collaborative performances in NYC and across the US. His musical performances have been called “overwhelmingly beautiful” and “extremely strange” in The Nation and his writing has been characterized as “rich and fascinating” in e-flux. He has taught at Pratt Institute, Muhlenberg College, New York University, Wesleyan College, Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and The New School.
Performance
The Conquest of Bread
Instrument (with Justin Wong)
Two Little Kids (with Anh Vo)
DAYS (with Ned Riseley)
Slow Dances
March is for Marches (with Morgan Bassichis)
The Gay Divorcees
10 meditations in an emergency
Choral Marx: Manifesto for the Communist Party in Eight Movements
Suite for Solo Cello and Audience
Writing
Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence
On Anh Vo
Interview with Will Rawls
On My Barbarian
On Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Assemblies of Chairs
On Alain Badiou
Press
Group Works reviews: 1, 2, 3
The Queer Art of Divorce
Choral Marx
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Video Archive