Patty Gone

Patty Gone (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Theater in Performance Studies at UCLA. She is a poet, performer, artist, and scholar. She is the author of Love Life (Mount Analogue, 2019) and her art criticism and poetry have appeared in publications including The Believer, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Boston Review, and jubilat. She has performed or exhibited her work at the Queens Museum, The Poetry Project, Smack Mellon, Human Resources, REDCAT, and Porn Film Festival Berlin, and she has received funding and support from NYU, Mass MoCA, Northampton Open Media, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Her dissertation traces, from a historiographical perspective, how the gravitational pull of straight cultural norms has influenced and shaped the trajectory of aesthetic theory and practice, from Camp to Surrealism.

Research Interests

Queer & Trans Theory, Performance Studies, Affect Theory, Aesthetic Theory, Art History

Education

MFA, Poetry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
BA, Communication, Hofstra University

Publications

“MPA at Night Gallery” Art Papers
“Drag Tech” at Honor Fraser, Art Papers
“Liz Magic Laser” at Various Small Fires, The Believer
“Jacolby Satterwhite” at Fabric Museum, Hyperallergic
“Dyke Div of the 2-Headed Calf” at New Museum, Hyperallergic

Presentations

Co-Convener of Trans Studies Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, 2024
Conference Coordinator, QGrad: LGBT Conference at UCLA, 2024
“Notes on a Straight Affect,” Modern Language Association, 2023
“Notes on a Straight Affect,” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, 2023
“Adaptation & Chrononormativity,” Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, 2022

Awards

Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, UCLA, 2022
Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 2021
Project Grant, Northampton Open Media, 2018
Assets for Artists Fellow, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017