Sunday, March 29, 2026
3pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
Join us in the Morbid Anatomy Library for a celebration for artist and activist Jill Goldman’s new book Disentanglement / Re-Embodiment.
In a wide-ranging discussion with Morbid Anatomy founder Joanna Ebenstein and independent scholar Asti Hustvedt, Goldman will discuss the book and its making. Goldman will also share with us how she used the idea of shapeshifting as a critical method — a strategy that unsettles fixed identity and challenges hierarchical systems by privileging fluidity, relationality, and interdependence. The book is tied to Goldman’s experience taking a Matriarchal Societies class with Ebenstein, so this gathering brings the event full circle.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
Disentanglement / Re-Embodiment documents five years of bold, deeply embodied work at the edge of art and politics. Developed between 2020 and 2025, the work spans video, performance, photography, installation, and political research, unfolding in a single, cohesive publication that investigates how we live inside o — and push back against — patriarchal power and environmental crisis.
The book’s content centers on ten performance works, staged internationally by Goldman and collaborators. It also weaves over two hundred images of performance documentation, film stills, research ephemera, and installation views. The book includes critical essays by Asti Hustvedt and Alex A. Jones, as well as extracts from conversations between the artist and noted thinkers shaping contemporary feminist, abolitionist, eco-critical, and anti-militarist discourse including Amy Ziering, Yasmeen Hassan, Sumaya Awad, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Nina Menkes, Ruchira Gupta, and Tanya Selvaratnam.
The publication traces Goldman’s sustained engagement with embodiment as a site where power is both internalized and resisted.
BIOS
Jill Goldman is an activist, filmmaker, and artist whose work incorporates performance, photography, and video. Her immersive multi-media installation / performances explore memory, autobiography, the gendered body, and ritual transformation. She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from UCLA Film School. She is the director of the feature film Love Is Like That, as well as many award-winning short films, including “fort / da,” “Holding Margie’s Hand,” “Sally Goes Shopping,” the music video for Lenny Kravitz’s “Blues for Sister Someone,” and the short documentary “Genevieve, Girl Before the Mirror.”
Asti Hustvedt, PhD, is an independent scholar who is the author of the Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris, which was named Editors’ Choice by the New York Times and Book of the Year by the Independent. She is also the editor of The Decadent Reader: Fiction Fantasy and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France. She is currently working on a book about hysteria and the occult, focusing on female mediums and the scientists who investigated them.
Joanna Ebenstein is an artist, writer, curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. Her books include Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human AnatomyandDeath: A Graveside Companion.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
3pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
Join us in the Morbid Anatomy Library for a celebration for artist and activist Jill Goldman’s new book Disentanglement / Re-Embodiment.
In a wide-ranging discussion with Morbid Anatomy founder Joanna Ebenstein and independent scholar Asti Hustvedt, Goldman will discuss the book and its making. Goldman will also share with us how she used the idea of shapeshifting as a critical method — a strategy that unsettles fixed identity and challenges hierarchical systems by privileging fluidity, relationality, and interdependence. The book is tied to Goldman’s experience taking a Matriarchal Societies class with Ebenstein, so this gathering brings the event full circle.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
Disentanglement / Re-Embodiment documents five years of bold, deeply embodied work at the edge of art and politics. Developed between 2020 and 2025, the work spans video, performance, photography, installation, and political research, unfolding in a single, cohesive publication that investigates how we live inside o — and push back against — patriarchal power and environmental crisis.
The book’s content centers on ten performance works, staged internationally by Goldman and collaborators. It also weaves over two hundred images of performance documentation, film stills, research ephemera, and installation views. The book includes critical essays by Asti Hustvedt and Alex A. Jones, as well as extracts from conversations between the artist and noted thinkers shaping contemporary feminist, abolitionist, eco-critical, and anti-militarist discourse including Amy Ziering, Yasmeen Hassan, Sumaya Awad, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Nina Menkes, Ruchira Gupta, and Tanya Selvaratnam.
The publication traces Goldman’s sustained engagement with embodiment as a site where power is both internalized and resisted.
BIOS
Jill Goldman is an activist, filmmaker, and artist whose work incorporates performance, photography, and video. Her immersive multi-media installation / performances explore memory, autobiography, the gendered body, and ritual transformation. She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from UCLA Film School. She is the director of the feature film Love Is Like That, as well as many award-winning short films, including “fort / da,” “Holding Margie’s Hand,” “Sally Goes Shopping,” the music video for Lenny Kravitz’s “Blues for Sister Someone,” and the short documentary “Genevieve, Girl Before the Mirror.”
Asti Hustvedt, PhD, is an independent scholar who is the author of the Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris, which was named Editors’ Choice by the New York Times and Book of the Year by the Independent. She is also the editor of The Decadent Reader: Fiction Fantasy and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France. She is currently working on a book about hysteria and the occult, focusing on female mediums and the scientists who investigated them.
Joanna Ebenstein is an artist, writer, curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. Her books include Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human AnatomyandDeath: A Graveside Companion.
