An evening with Nan Goldin and Vivienne Dick

The Public Program devoted to Nan Goldin’s exhibition “This Will Not End Well” presents, Friday, 12 December 2025, at 7 PM, an evening of film screening and conversation with artist Nan Goldin and internationally renowned filmmaker Vivienne Dick, who is a key figure of the “No Wave” movement in New York in the late 1970s. The conversation is moderated by Cristina Piccino, film critic and curator.
The evening, which takes place within Goldin’s exhibition space, begins with the screening of Dick’s film Liberty’s Booty (1980, 47′), starring, among others, Goldin herself. The film is an investigation into sex work from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy. It is also a document and a celebration of a New York subculture in the late seventies. With a dense mix of real testimonies, verité footage, and acted out scenarios, Liberty’s Booty examines power relations and the commodification of the body.
After the screening, Nan Goldin and Vivienne Dick will engage in a conversation moderated by Cristina Piccino which, drawing inspiration from the film and Goldin’s work, will explore various topics, including the representation of the female characters through their artistic research.

 

The film and the conversation will be in English.
Free admission until full capacity, on a first-come, first-served basis. You may check in at the registration desk in the museum lobby starting at 6.00 PM.

Reservations are available for Membership Card holders while spots last—click here.
To validate your Member pass, please arrive at least 15 minutes before the event starts.
No admission will be allowed after the performance begins.

 

VIVIENNE DICK
Vivienne Dick is an internationally celebrated filmmaker and artist. Born in Donegal, Ireland in 1950 she began making Super 8 films while living in New York in the late seventies. Dick was a key figure within ‘No Wave’, avant-garde scene at that time, which was led by a collective of musicians, filmmakers and artists including Nan Goldin, Beth B, Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, James Chance and many others. Dick has gone on to develop an extraordinary body of work which has been shown in cinemas, film festivals and art galleries around the world. Dick’s work is marked by an interest in urban street life, gender and social politics, and in recent year, ecology and possible futures.