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Category: Texts + Documents

Digital collage including a pair of staged, black-and-white, 19th-century photographs of a young Indigenous boy before and after being assimilated at a Canadian residential school. The image is overlaid with contemporary anticolonial writing.

The Art of the Apology: Apathy, Accountability, and the Politics of Redress

Artist Chris Bose underscores the impacts of Canadian settler-colonialism, both past and present

By Reilley Bishop-Stall on December 3rd, 2020 in Texts + Documents chrisbose, residentialschools, theapology, thomasmoore
Collage with forty dried rose petals glued to paper with handwritten notes by the artist

Rosa enferma, Together Apart

Kaira M. Cabañas considers our vulnerable yet resilient social relations in a time of pandemic, through the lens of a work by Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón

By Kaira M. Cabañas on May 7th, 2020 in Texts + Documents artandpandemics, artandthenovelcoronavirus, artistarchives, commoncorporeality, covid, distancelearning, globalconceptualism, JesúsFuenmayor, RobertoObregón, Rosaenferma, sharedvulnerability

More Than 100 Stories: Sharing Learning through Creative Evaluation

What happens when an arts bureaucracy steps away from “data-driven” evaluation of its program? Writer Sarah Butler recounts her collaboration with visual artist Nicole Mollett on a unique commission from Arts Council England

By Sarah Butler on January 31st, 2020 in Pedagogies, Texts + Documents

Sky Couture: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s BROKER and the Politics of Luxury

David Markus investigates a video work set in a Trump-branded condo and analyzes superluxury living in relation to material culture, consumer desires, and the political inclinations they index

By David Markus on January 17th, 2020 in Texts + Documents

Beyond Survival: Concluding Remarks

Sarah Kanouse brings to a close the Beyond Survival series, which probes the effects of sustained precarity, a diminished funding landscape in the arts, and institutional relations to socio-ecological urgencies

By Sarah Kanouse on August 12th, 2019 in Texts + Documents Beyond Survival

Speculative Futures: Experimental Radical Projects and the Undercommons of Funding

Using Axis Lab—the Chicago-based interdisciplinary arts organization she helped found—as a case study, Patricia Nguyen explores the intricacies of funding and establishing networks of community support

By Patricia Nguyen on May 31st, 2019 in Texts + Documents Beyond Survival

The Cost of Precarity: Contingent Academic Labor in the Gig Economy

Kristen Galvin and Christina M. Spiker discuss the adjunctification of the academy and what has been sacrificed by this new paradigm of the gig economy

By Kristen Galvin and Christina M. Spiker on May 1st, 2019 in Texts + Documents Beyond Survival

Take This Hammer (After Leadbelly): Extended Version

Margo Handwerker and Richard Saxton of the collective M12 Studio offer observations and critiques of the process of applying for and reporting on grants in the United States

By Margo Handwerker and Richard Saxton – M12 Studio on March 13th, 2019 in Texts + Documents Beyond Survival

Beyond Survival in Art and Art History: Fifteen Futures Already Alive

Amy K. Hamlin offers fifteen propositions for “thinking otherwise”—a text that serves as a kind of imaginary syllabus asking what the future of art history might look like

By Amy K. Hamlin on February 13th, 2019 in Texts + Documents Beyond Survival

The Buddhist Resistance of Zhang Huan’s Pagoda

In a new essay, Winston Kyan considers the extensive body of work of artist Zhang Huan within the histories of Chinese Buddhism, the American art market, durational performance work, and “existence as suffering”

By Winston Kyan on October 16th, 2018 in Texts + Documents

In the Free Field: Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III and Anechoic Histories

Walker Downey explores sound—and the various societal, artistic, and militaristic attempts to eliminate it—through the work of Doug Wheeler, in particular his 2017 exhibition PSAD Synthetic Desert III at the Guggenheim Museum

By Walker Downey on August 30th, 2018 in Texts + Documents

Digging into Aldiss’s Earthworks and Smithson’s “Earthworks”

Scholar Suzaan Boettger traces the generative interplay between science-fiction author Brian Aldiss’s novel Earthworks and the Land art practice of Robert Smithson

By Suzaan Boettger on June 7th, 2018 in Texts + Documents

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