Exploring space, sound, and radical silence in installation art
Category: Conversations
Facing Social Practice: Mary Beth Heffernan in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson
The PPE Portrait Project builds trust between patients and health-care workers during COVID-19
Just Being
Art historians Risham Majeed and Blake Bradford offer a proxy visit to three still-new sites dedicated to African American history
In Tehran: A Conversation with Iranian Gallerists
This roundtable conversation among Iranian gallerists, available in English and in Persian, explores the politics and particularities of gallery ownership in Tehran
Exhibition Situations: Allyson Purpura in Conversation with Elizabeth Rodini
Elizabeth Rodini discusses World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts across the Indian Ocean with one of the exhibition’s curators, Allyson Purpura. The conversation focuses on object kinship and adjacency, a strategy that enables a resistance to “the stasis and fixity of exhibitions”
Caitlin Masley-Charlet in Conversation with Elisabeth Smolarz
Caitlin Masley-Charlet sits down with artist Elisabeth Smolarz to discuss Smolarz’s recent residencies and projects, and the importance of failure, artistic community, and cross-pollination between practitioners
Exchange: Geeta Kapur, Saloni Mathur, and Rachel Weiss
Geeta Kapur puts forth a thirteen-part text, “Proposition Avant-Garde: A View from the South,” with critical responses by Saloni Mathur and Rachel Weiss
Exhibition Situations: Risham Majeed in Conversation with Elizabeth Rodini
By Risham Majeed and Elizabeth Rodini
Risham Majeed and Elizabeth Rodini discuss Majeed’s exhibition Made to Move: African Nomadic Design, the museological and curatorial challenges posed by the exhibition’s material, and the possibility of a decolonized museum space
Scripting A Smeary Spot
By A.K. Burns and Melissa Ragain
In this annotated commentary, artist A.K. Burns and art historian and critic Melissa Ragain explore the script, performances, and citations in Burn’s video installation A Smeary Spot (2015), which is the first episode in her five-part Negative Space film cycle
Community and Creativity at Residencies Near and Far: Chad Stayrook in Conversation with Caitlin Masley-Charlet
By Caitlin Masley-Charlet
Caitlin Masley-Charlet speaks with artist Chad Stayrook about his experiences at artist residencies around the world, the effects that residencies have had his artistic practice, and the development of Present Company, the artist-run space in Brooklyn that he cofounded
In Conversation with Marie Watt: A New Coyote Tale
By Marie Watt
Marie Watt first encountered Joseph Beuys’s work as a college student studying abroad. While working on an MFA at Yale, she wrote a reflection on the artist’s I Like America and America Likes Me from the perspective of Coyote, for a course taught by the art historian Romy Golan
Damon Davis’s Negrophilia: Encounters with Black Death
By Olubukola A. Gbadegesin
Olubukola A. Gbadegesin speaks with multidisciplinary artist Damon Davis about his mixed-media collage series, Negrophilia, and the importance of self-representation. “We’ve got to represent ourselves,” Davis says, “Because if we let others tell the story, important parts are going to be erased