Angelo Madsen – In Person – 2026

Tuesday, April 14, 7:15 PM

Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-2024) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, and the politics of desire. Madsen’s works have shown at Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, De La Warr Pavilion, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, REDCAT, Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, and dozens of festivals around the world. He is a Creative Capital Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, Headlands, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and others. His film, “North By Current”, aired on season 34 of POV on PBS, was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award, Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes. Madsen, is an Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont.

Screening:

My Structuralist Film
Director: Angelo Madsen, 6 min, Experimental, 2026
Madsen will present his newest short film, which interrogates the trope of visibility.

A Body to Live In
Director: Angelo Madsen, 98 min, Documentary, 2025
The queer art of Body modification took center stage in 1989 when Fakir Musafar’s “Modern Primitives” movement hit alternative cultures around the globe via the punk subcultural magazine Re/Search. A Body To Live In introduces this riveting “Gender Flex” icon to uncover the rich history of western body modification and its controversial intersections with sexuality and spiritual practices.