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Category: Contemporary Projects

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
Color video still of performer Monique Jenkinson performing as her drag persona, Fauxnique. She wears heavy makeup, devouring an image of a hand wearing a large bracelet that appears to have been cut from a fashion magazine; magazine cutouts of other body parts are stuck to her forehead.

Diva Maw

Drag performer Fauxnique exalts in humanity, vulnerability, and decay

By Monique Jenkinson on October 29th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, drag, fauxnique, feminism, feministart, videoart
One banner says "Let Us Vote!" in bold, colorful neon letters on a black background; next to it, another banner says "The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t" in neon green on black

Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t

Exposing voter suppression through performance and installation art

By Aram Han Sifuentes on October 1st, 2020 in Contemporary Projects AramHanSifuentes, disenfrancisement, letusvote, officialunofficialvotingstation, voting, votingforall, votingforallwholegallycant
Many masked people wearing red stare at the sky, many with their phones raised to take pictures

The Masked Island

Singapore’s technocracy faces COVID-19

By John Lee on September 10th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, photoessay, photography, Singapore
A 3-minute, full-color digital animation that collages a series of images produced by the artist to represent wartime conflict

Projections From The Third Half [Cloud Storm]

Zeina Barakeh deconstructs conflict through animation and collage

By Zeina Barakeh on August 6th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects cloudstorm, homelandinsecurity, middleeasternartists, narrativesofwar, palestinianart, polarization, politicalart

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