Matthew Rana

Matthew Rana (1981/US) is the author of Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022). His critical writing has appeared in e-flux Criticism, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacket2, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, among others, and he is a regular contributor to Frieze. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and lives and works in Stockholm.

contact

matthewrana [at] gmail [dot] com

books

Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022), available at Asterism Books

research

World of Yum-Yum: On Studying Hunger, The Poetry Project Newsletter, No.272

9 June 2023: Bernadette Mayer Round Table, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Poetry’s best-kept secret – in conversation with Matthew Rana on the cinematic work of poet Bernadette Mayer, Metropolis M

The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer, Symposium of the Network for New York School Studies, 20 April 2022, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris

G R G W R G R B R B R B W G W G R B B B B, on Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals (Station Hill Press, 2011). Jacket2

From Memory to Reproduction: The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer, NICA Institute, Leiden

recent

Social Links of Psychoanalysis: Fantasy in the Hold, ABF Study Circle, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Stockholm

Politics of the Unspeakable, review of Lonespeech, Ann Jäderlund (Nightboat, 2024). Los Angeles Review of Books

14-19 June 2024: Across the Waters: XXIX International James Joyce Symposium, University of Glasgow

11 June 2024: Release of OEI #104-105: Organisering!? Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Stockholm

Vaginal Davis Creates Spaces for Queer Kinship and Experimentation, review of Magnificent Product, Vaginal Davis at Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Frieze

If Wishes Were Horses, review of Crybaby, Josefin Arnell at Index, Stockholm. Kunstkritikk

24 February 2024: Reading and conversation with Wendy Lotterman, Nord Books, Stockholm

22 February 2024: Reading and conversation with Wendy Lotterman, Anti, Malmö

Shitty Feelings, review of Inside Out, Trude Viken at Belenius, Stockholm. Kunstkritikk

Hon klär av kropparna deras mänskliga drag, review of Viljan att leva, Fatima Moallim at Konstakadamien, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet

22 December 2023: Maratonläsning av Bernadette Mayers Midvinterdag, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Stockholm

Feminismens misslyckande är hennes triumf, review of Bodies and Antibodies, Index, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet

Annika Larsson's Appetite for Disaster and Destruction, review of STRANGE POWERS, Annika Larsson at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm. Frieze

Det enda som fattas är neon, review of häremellan rummen, Marabouparken, Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet

9 September 2023: Poesimässan, Stockholm

Lyrikvännen, Nr. 3/2023

8 June 2023: this poem's got no parents, Perdu, Amsterdam

Un-Settling Art Criticism, interview with David Garneau. Kunstkritikk

In the Wait, review of Becoming, Tarik Kiswanson at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. Kunstkritikk

29 April 2023: Ardour: Poems from the Daud, Anti, Malmö

Hate the Game, review of Somalitown, Salad Hilowle at Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm. Kunstkritikk

21 March 2023: Chateaux Presents: Matthew Rana & Nion Editions, Fabelbar, Stockholm

Dance Revolution? review of Portrait of a Movement, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, curated by Övül Durmuşoğlu for Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm. Kunstkritikk

11 February 2023: Malmötxt: Avtalet, Inkonst, Malmö

Forget Rilke, review of Third Eye Butterfly, curated by Cathrin Mayer for Mint, Stockholm. Kunstkritikk

Mara Lee's Monstrous Demand, review of Loving Others, Othering Love: On a Few Tropes and Emotions that Shape the Image of the Stranger, Mara Lee (Praun & Guermouche, 2022). Kunstkritikk

The Politics of Bad Neighbours, review of Houses to Die In and Other Essays on Art, Ina Blom (Sternberg Press, 2022). Kunstkritikk