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Category: Contemporary Projects

Photograph of green tropical forest with circular collage cutouts of high-rise buildings in Chicago (left) and Singapore (right). Colorful lines intersect at the center of the image.

Peripatetic in the Pandemic

Taking an intercontinental sound walk through the pandemic

By Christa Donner, James Jack, Karin Oen, and Andrew Yang on September 1st, 2022 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations, Uncategorized Conversation, Embodied Senses, Observation, Pandemic, Story, Walk

Bodybuilding

Make your own book with poet and artist Anaïs Duplan

By Anaïs Duplan on June 2nd, 2022 in Contemporary Projects book, DIY, printouts, trans
Photograph of a screening room with an image on screen of a close up face of a person with a tear falling from one eye, looking directly outward.

A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History

Recent texts in trans studies

By David J. Getsy and Che Gossett on February 4th, 2022 in Contemporary Projects, From Art Journal, Pedagogies, Texts + Documents
How has the past year's quarantine affected your professional life?

The Quarantine Question

AJO readers respond to the pandemic in words, sound, and images

By Dana E. Katz and Lisa Pon, Guest Editors on December 21st, 2021 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations, Texts + Documents artandpandemics, artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, Dana E. Katz, Lisa Pon
A gender-nonconforming person, standing, and a nonbinary person (the artist), sitting with one leg outstretched, are on a rooftop in Mexico City. A bike held up by the gender-nonconforming person balances on the wall of the rooftop.

Transiting in Anti-Patriarchal Worlds: The Queer Photography of Fernando Fuentes

Brian Whitener on the art of collective transformation

By Brian Whitener on November 18th, 2021 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations
Detailed view of the top of a blue, hexagonal ceramic rattle with a wooden handle, revealing the image of a line drawing of a coiled snake on the top of the rattle.

One day I will make a mace, but for now I have a mouth

Elana Mann makes protective talismans for our truth-challenged times

By Elana Mann on September 30th, 2021 in Contemporary Projects ElanaMann, feministart, protestart
Thumbnail of an iframe that links out to a dynamic digital project by Jeremiah Barber. Primary image is a full-color collage of the Transamerica Building in San Francisco entwined / taken over by a termite mound, with a mouse cursor hovering over it, revealing a pop-up video of two fingers pressing a lever.

Feral Intimacies, Part II—our homes are inedible

What we can learn from termites on surviving hostile conditions

By Jeremiah Barber, Curated by Thea Quiray Tagle on July 19th, 2021 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, environmentalism, FeralIntimacies, interactiveart, JeremiahBarber, videoart
Screenshot from animated GIF of black-and-white photos of beaver boxes being parachuted in and various beaver-related headlines over collage of dark, starry night sky and tree-covered hills in background. Small inset film shows some cows surrounding a beaver.

Feral Intimacies, Part I—Super Furs for the Super Futures 77: Beavereavement

An animated zine on inspiration, grief…and parachuting beavers

By Super Futures Haunt Qollective, Curated by Thea Quiray Tagle on June 25th, 2021 in Contemporary Projects Beavereavement, FeralIntimacies, SFHQ, zines
Color photograph with a frontal view of an abstract ceramic portrait head that appears to be made from a long coil of clay. The outline of two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and two ears are affixed to its surface. The object is a monochromatic black with a slight sheen to the glaze.

The Weight of Matter: Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Glenn Adamson in Conversation

How the materiality of clay mirrors the body

By Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Glenn Adamson on May 20th, 2021 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations craftmatters, ebitenyefabaralaye, glennadamson, portraiture, sculpture
Color photograph of two hands holding an interactive sculpture made of folded paper in the shape of a child's 'fortune teller' game.

Hide and Seek

Folk tradition meets revisionist storytelling in Jenny Yurshansky’s printable sculpture

By Jenny Yurshansky on March 25th, 2021 in Contemporary Projects artandimmigration, artandnationalism, interactiveart, printouts

Squares, Triangles & Cats

“Relax like a cat” with this soothing, quarantine-friendly coloring project

By Asuka Ohsawa on December 31st, 2020 in Contemporary Projects coloringpages, geometryandart, internetcats, printouts, redandwhitequilts
Black-and-white photograph of an older woman and a child embracing one another; both are standing outside and wearing handmade cloth face masks. The title of the zine and the name of all contributors is superimposed over the image.

Pandemic Chronicles, Volume 1

Eight artists bear witness to collective grief and resilience in this multimedia zine

By Pandemic Poetics Collective; Edited by Chip Thomas on November 19th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, BLM, chipthomas, covid, jetsonorama, zines

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