Simone Forti

Simone Forti (born 1935), is an Italian American Postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer.

Publications

• Handbook in Motion, ed. Kasper Koenig, Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and New York University Press, 1974; 2nd ed., New York: New York University Press, 1980; 3rd ed., 1988, 152 pp, ARG.

• Angel, New York: self-published, 1978.

• Oh Tongue, postf. Jackson Mac Low, Los Angeles: Beyond Baroque, 2003, ARG. [1]

• Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972, eds. Ninotchka Bennahum, Wendy Perron, and Bruce Robertson, University of California Press, 2017, 191 pp. Catalogue for exh. held at Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 14 Jan-30 Apr 2017. With contributions from Simone Forti, John Rockwell, and Morton Subotnick.

• The Bear in the Mirror, eds. Simone Forti, Roos Gortzak, and Quinn Latimer, London: Koenig Books, and Middelburg: Vleeshal, 2018, 94 pp. A collection of stories, prose-poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories. [2]

Catalogues

• Simone Forti: Thinking with the Body, ed. Sabine Breitwieser, Munich: Hirmer, 2014, 320 pp. Exh. held at Museum der Moderne Salzburg. [3]
• Simone Forti. Senza fretta, eds. Luca Lo Pinto and Elena Magini, Centro Pecci Prato, 2021, 20 pp. Booklet.

Interviews

• http://vimeo.com/52953241

Literature

• Virginia B. Spivey, "The Minimal Presence of Simone Forti", Woman's Art Journal 30:1, Spring/Summer 2009, pp 11-18. [4]

• Julia Bryan-Wilson, "Simone Forti Goes to the Zoo", October 152, Spring 2015, pp 26-52.

• Meredith Morse, Soft Is Fast: Simone Forti in the 1960s and After, MIT Press, 2016, ARG.

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Forti