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Aki Sasamoto
Poetry Light Stool evokes the spirit of Fluxus, the intermedia movement that encouraged artmaking to be simple, fun, and address everyday life. Aki Sasamoto does just that with this ironic work that revolves around found objects, namely a four-legged wooden stool to which she attached four wheels. Coiling above is a goose-neck cable that rises up and culminates in a globe lamp.
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Bunny Rogers
In Rogers’ Columbine works, the artist explores the 1999 high school shooting that took place in Littleton, Colorado, claiming 34 victims. Rogers’ Columbine projects have focused on understanding the shooters through delving into online forums for other teenagers (many of them girls) who identify and sympathize with them. Her two-channel video work, Poetry reading in Columbine Cafeteria with Gazlene Membrane & Poetry reading in Columbine Library with Joan of Arc , focuses on two characters: Gazlene Membrane and Joan of Arc.
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Francisca Benítez
You have given the world your songs by Francisca Benítez is a poem in American Sign Language (ASL). It employs ten handshapes arranged in a numbering sequence from 1 to 10. This visual rhyme sequence is standard in Deaf poetry, as is the Tenth in Latin American popular oral/written poetry traditions.
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Gozo Yoshimasu
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Gozo Yoshimasu’s visual-poetry series Dear Monster (Kaibutsu-kun) explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. He embarked on the project out of a deep sense of sympathy and commitment, in pursuit of “poetry possible after March 2011”, without exactly knowing where he was heading. He started scribing lines and letters on exceptionally large manuscript paper that he handcrafted every day.
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Gozo Yoshimasu
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Gozo Yoshimasu’s visual-poetry series Dear Monster (Kaibutsu-kun) explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. He embarked on the project out of a deep sense of sympathy and commitment, in pursuit of “poetry possible after March 2011”, without exactly knowing where he was heading. He started scribing lines and letters on exceptionally large manuscript paper that he handcrafted every day.
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Abigail Reyes
The video work Si Señor by Abigail Reyes is about the typical representation of women in Latin American office culture. Collaging together a chorus of subservient snapshots of women responding to an off-screen man with “si señor”, the accumulative effect of these spliced together scenes weighs heavy as the film plays on both humour and collective discomfort. In order to complete the work the artist watched hours upon hours of telenovelas, the impact of which on the collective consciousness is explored through her film.
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Nalini Malani
Malani draws upon her personal experience of the violent legacy of colonialism and de-colonization in India in this personal narrative that was shown as a colossal six channel video installation at dOCUMENTA (13), but is here adapted to single channel. The video is largely silent until violent crashes and female voices overwhelm the viewer, portraying the inner voice of a woman who is brutally gang raped. Malani addresses the fatal place of women in Indian society and the geo-politics of national identity.
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Gozo Yoshimasu
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Gozo Yoshimasu’s double-sided work on paper Fire Embroidery explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. He embarked on the project out of a deep sense of sympathy and commitment, in pursuit of “poetry possible after March 2011”, without exactly knowing where he was heading. He started scribing lines and letters on exceptionally large manuscript paper that he handcrafted every day.
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Rindon Johnson
Advanced Technology (Advanced Technology)
The VR play Meat Growers: A Love Story by Rindon Johnson centers on two meat growers who work together in a meat processing factory in the year 2100. The setting is a post-Green New Deal Napa Valley where there are no more paved roads, trees abound, and all the strip malls have been turned into food forests and meat growing plants. The protagonists seem to move through their day automatically, yearning for each other, as the viewer acts as a friend and confidant, silently bearing witness to their desire.
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Cecilia Vicuña
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Palabrarma (obreros palabreando) by Cecilia Vicuña is a series of works in which the artist blends poetry, political commentary and graphic design. The title itself is a portmanteau that unites the words palabra (word) and arma (weapon) that speaks literally of the power of words through their poetic potential. A poet herself, Vicuña developed a long series of palabrarmas on diverse media that were often used as slogans in political demonstrations.
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Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Anointed by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Dan Lin is a poem recital/video that addresses the American nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands that occurred between 1946 to 1958 in Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. The artist’s words of resilience and healing are uttered as she travels across the northeastern atolls of her vast island nation. The climax of the short film takes place when the artist, holding white coral stones (a Marshallese funeral ritual) stands on top of the massive concrete dome erected on Runit Island in Enewetak Atoll to contain 73,000 square meters of radioactive waste—only a small fraction of the debris generated by the nuclear tests, the rest of which was never cleaned up.
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Emeka Okereke
Bariga Nights is a photographic series set in the Bariga neighborhood in Lagos (Nigeria). This district has the reputation as home to some of the most disenfranchised of an estimated 21 million inhabitants of Lagos. After several years of being on the road across Africa, Europe and North America, Okereke decided to stay in Lagos in 2016.
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Chris Johanson
Chris Johanson’s Untitled (Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat) (2010) pictures a canoe drifting toward an off-kilter horizon line, which demarcates the cobalt sea from the cerulean sky. An orange-haired figure, oar positioned in mid-stroke, looks ahead—whether toward an edge or an infinite expanse, it is impossible to tell. Echoing a trope that recurs in Greek epic poetry, transcendental painting, and current-day reality television, the character is alone with nature.
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Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s work brings together spoken and written language, photography, vintage television and computer animation to pay homage to African-American popular culture. Figuration (B) is a mediatic dumpster dive through the not-yet-historical past, its fantasia of purloined images flowing to an interruptive, channel-surfing logic. A stream of TV clips, commercials, news segments, video memes, and movie scenes—at times run backwards, doubled, or layered over other clips—incorporate archival and pop cultural sources layered with a soundtrack constructed of found and made sources to make something akin to a video mixtape.
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Jota Mombaça
Ghost 1: Drowning is not a poem but is not not a poem either by Jota Mombaça is part of a series of sculptures exploring water’s restless, elemental properties and what the artist describes as “the radicality of sinking”. For this project, Mombaça produced three sculptural linen works in collaboration with the waters of the San Francisco Bay (in Berkeley), the San Pablo Bay (in Richmond), and the Pacific Ocean (in Bolinas), wherein the artist submerged linen in these local waters for three to seven weeks, then dried, and installed the materials on metal armatures. Mombaça’s subsequent video waterwill (2023) is composed of various footage from the sinking, floating, and unsinking of these sculptures and those from previous connected performances.
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Marcelo Cidade
This series of photographs reflects Marcelo Cidade’s incessant walks or drifting through the city and his chance encounters with a certain street poetry like the Surrealists or Situationists before him. He captures incongruities or everyday simplicity and highlights their suggestive power. The composition and framing of these interventions specially emphasizes the object of interest and the humor of the context.
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Didem Pekün
The black-and-white projection, Araf by Didem Pekün, begins, as a lithe man stands high up in the middle of the grand, rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In very slow motion, he soars through the air like a bird in a graceful dive. We never see him land.
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Julius Koller
This work is one of Koller’s many variations which he began to use from 1970 to describe the ‘cultural situations’ he created. His “Anti-Happenings” turned mundane events into ‘cultural’ and ‘subjective’ situations. He sought to create new cultural situations that weren’t new art, but rather new ways of living: a new creativity for a new humanistic culture.
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Himali Singh Soin
Developed especially for the KADIST-KHOJ collaborative exhibition, Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger , Radar Level is set in the world’s last geological minutes, in two ancient landscapes. One in the northern hemisphere in Mongolia at the site of the first dinosaur egg excavation and the other beneath the southern constellation of Nambia, on its old waters. Embedded within the work are a series of dualities and codes.
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A.K. Burns
In a 2002 Pentagon press conference, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addressed a question about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction with an unforgettable evasion: there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, the latter being the most precarious. In a trilogy of nearly identical sculptures by A. K. Burns, the artist conjures the same string of word compounds on a metal gate nearly 15 years after Rumsfeld’s infamous statement. Resembling ubiquitous black fences across New York City, Unknown Unknown presents the paradox of this statement as a physical division and linguistic deviation, acting jointly as both a threshold and obstacle.
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Anju Dodiya
The Shedding by Anju Dodiya is part of a series of mattress paintings the artist creates using fabric stretched on padded and shaped boards. The imagery relates to other paintings in this body work that expresses the visceral and vulnerable side of creativity. The posture of the protagonist—a part-human, part-carapaced animal—is opening herself outwardly.
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Juliana Huxtable
Herculine’s Prophecy by Juliana Huxtable features a kneeling demon-figure on what appears to be a screen-print, placed on a wooden table, which has then been photographed and digitally altered to appear like a book cover, with a title and subtitle across the top, and a poem written across the bottom. This composition is stuck to a metal plate by a series of button magnets, with interjecting phrases on them. The juxtaposition between the mysogynistic, almost puritan poetry that stripes across the bottom and the powerful crouching pose that the femme demon assumes inverts the hegemonic text , instead creating a space of alterity.
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Marcelo Cidade
This series of photographs reflects Marcelo Cidade’s incessant walks or drifting through the city and his chance encounters with a certain street poetry like the Surrealists or Situationists before him. He captures incongruities or everyday simplicity and highlights their suggestive power. The composition and framing of these interventions specially emphasizes the object of interest and the humor of the context.
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Lenora de Barros
Lenora de Barros’s poetics are known for setting in motion an intimate relationship between image and the written word. This was precisely one of the questions raised while producing the photographs that compose Poema , one of de Barros’s first and most iconic visual poems. The work consists of a sequence of six black and white photographs where language acts in a performative movement with the typewriter, forging a connection between word and image.
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Sam Samiee
Mojtaba was painted in 2015 as a part of the Bedroom Posters series. Bedroom Posters feature the same beautiful boys who could well be out of a set of fashion editorials. Mojtaba, Manuel, Titus, and a boy found on Tumblr are on the verge of becoming men, yet are narcissistic adolescents prone to fall into the trap of ideological extremes.
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I-Hsuen Chen
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Part of the series Still Life Analysis II: The Island , the two photographs The Objects under the Civic Boulevard and A Yellow Blanket on a Wooden Pallet feature household objects of vagrants living beneath the Taipei’s Civic Boulevard expressway. Such objects include trash, unidentified discarded objects, and plants. For the artist, the underside of Civic Boulevard resembles a subtropical island with its artificial stones and potted plants decor.
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Rudolf Polanszky
Polanszky’s sculpture is made from raw, found materials that have the patina of age. He brings together disparate material discarded by society to form aggregates. Although it is not his intention to make works of meaning the viewer endows them with poetic meanings and constructs.
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Jiri Kovanda
Kovanda’s street interventions are always documented according to the same format as the actions: a piece of A4 paper, a typewritten text giving a precise location and date, and a photograph. Contrarily to the actions, he took the photographs himself. One of the rules he stuck to in his artistic practice was to always use material at his disposal, a real economy of means.
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Minouk Lim
New Town Ghost (2005) is one of Lim’s trio of large-scale video installations. (The other two are S. O. S—Adoptive Dissensus [2009] and The Weight of Hands [2010].) The series grew out of her interest in capturing lost memories and the collective unconscious in rapidly globalizing cities such as Seoul.
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Carlos Motta
Searching for We’wha is composed of five photographic triptychs combining photographs from the American West (New Mexico and Arizona) with excerpts from American Indian poetry in an attempt to reconstruct imaginary aspects of the life of We’Wha, a famous member of the Zuni tribe, who was born male but who lived a feminine gender expression. With this work, Carlos Motta aims to question gender fluidity, indeterminacy, neutrality and non-conformity, using We’wha as an image of the ways in which Two-Spirit American Indians express gender in non-Western non-traditional ways. They are often accepted and revered by their tribes, and in We’wha’s case she even became an official representative of their social interests.
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
Marion Scemama is a French photographer and filmmaker...
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, a partnership between the South Korean artist Young Hae Chang and the American poet Mark Voge, is widely known as a pioneering net art project...
Gozo Yoshimasu
Gozo Yoshimasu is a prolific Japanese poet, photographer, artist and filmmaker active since the 1960s...
Sancintya Mohini Simpson
Sancintya Mohini Simpson is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work addresses the impact of colonization on the historical and lived experiences of her family and broader diasporic communities...
Haegue Yang
- location: Berlin, Germany & Seoul, South Korea
- year born: 1971
- gender: female
- nationality: Korean
- home town: Seoul, South Korea
Fabrice Hyber
In each of his self-portraits, Fabrice Hyber (he removed the last “t” in Hybert in 2004) is elusive...
Katinka Bock
The city, the landscape and the exhibition space are Katinka Bock’s favored playgrounds...
Mithu Sen
Mithu Sen’s writing is central to her practice, as a poet from West Bengal, a region of great Indian literary history, poetic and visual tropes giving ground to her challenge of semiotics...
Andrei Monastyrski
Artist, poet, writer and theoretician...
John Lucas and Claudia Rankine
John Lucas and Claudia Rankine are interdisciplinary thinkers and makers committed to exploring the nuances of race and power in our daily lives...
Minouk Lim
- location: Seoul, South Korea
- year born: 1968
- gender: female
- nationality: Korean
Anju Dodiya
Anju Dodiya paintings feature autobiographical and human relationships, with ‘women’ usually at the center...
Abigail Reyes
Abigail Reyes’s work is deeply ingrained in the feminist discourse of Latin America...
Evariste Richer
Evariste Richer constantly invents new standards for measurement which are mostly objects to prompt the spectator’s potential investigations: avalanche probes, a meter drawn from memory, a meter with no measurements… Meteorology, science, magic, mineralogy, photography, optics are his preferred terrains...
Himali Singh Soin
Himali Singh Soin is an artist and writer whose work is inspired by poetry and planetariness...
Diamond Stingily
Diamond Stingily works in a wide variety of media, from spoken word, video and audio to sculpture and installation...
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is a poet, teacher and performance artist born in the Marshall Islands...
Mandy El-Sayegh
Beginning with rigorous research and resulting in a wide range of media, from layered paintings, to installation, diagram, sculpture, sound and video, El-Sayegh’s work is about systems of bodily, linguistic and political order among others, and their disintegration...
Rindon Johnson
Rindon Johnson’s work in sculpture, video, poetry, and virtual reality deals with technologies that enable captivity and the harnessing and transformation of nature from a gender- and race-critical perspective...
A.K. Burns
A.K...
Enrique Ramirez
- year born: 1979
- gender: male
- nationality: Chilean
- home town: Santiago, Chile
Jane Jin Kaisen and Guston Sondin-Kung
Working with narrative experimental film, multi-channel video installation, performative video art, photography, and text, Jane Jin Kaisen engages themes of memory, trauma, migration and translation at the intersection of personal and collective histories...
Taysir Batniji
The work of Taysir Batniji, a Palestinian artist born in Gaza shortly before the 1967 war and the Israeli occupation, is tainted with manifestations of impermanence and itinerancy, belonging and uprooting, personal memories and historical events...
Jason Dodge
Jason Dodge extracts objects from everyday life – of which he adds minimal alterations by the way that he isolates and presents them...
Fredi Casco
Working with a variety of media such as drawing, painting and photography Fredi Casco frequently incorporates original documents and archives as a medium and support of his work in order to bring to light specific episodes of Paraguayan political history, particularly events that took place during the time of Alfredo Stroessner’s long dictatorship (1954 to 1989)...
Shimabuku
Born in 1969 in Kobe, Shimabuku is an artist who collects unusual encounters...
Lenora de Barros
Lenora de Barros studied linguistics and started her artistic career in the 1970s...
Jesse Chun
Through video, drawing, sculpture, sound, installation, and publications, Jesse Chun’s multidisciplinary practice critically engages with the politics of language...
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about 13 months ago (12/18/2023)
Aesthetica Magazine - Poetry of the Everyday Poetry of the Everyday Chinese artist Li Feng works in his studios in Shanghai and Los Angeles, where he is inspired by the everyday: people, language and the poetic ironies of life...
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about 13 months ago (12/12/2023)
Light Jacket Reading Series Brings Poetry to Golden Gate Park | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer The Do List This Unpretentious Poetry Series Roams the Pockets of Golden Gate Park Sarah Hotchkiss Dec 12 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Facebook Share-FB Twitter Share-Twitter Email Share-Email Copy Link Copy Link Sophia Dahlin reads a poem during the eighth event of the Light Jacket Reading Series in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, Dec...
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about 13 months ago (12/12/2023)
Ed Ruscha's Poetry of the American Experience | Art & Object Skip to main content Subscribe to our free e-letter! Webform Your Email Address Role Art Collector/Enthusiast Artist Art World Professional Academic Country USA Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Ascension Island Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canary Islands Cape Verde Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Ceuta & Melilla Chad Chile China Christmas Island Clipperton Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Kinshasa Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czechia Côte d’Ivoire Denmark Diego Garcia Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard & McDonald Islands Honduras Hong Kong SAR China Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao SAR China Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands North Korea North Macedonia Norway Oman Outlying Oceania Pakistan Palau Palestinian Territories Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Réunion Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka St...
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about 13 months ago (12/11/2023)
SF Composer Andy Guthrie Finds Poetry in the Everyday | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer The Do List With a Field Recorder and French Horn, Andy Guthrie Finds Poetry in Everyday Surroundings Daniel Bromfield Dec 11 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Facebook Share-FB Twitter Share-Twitter Email Share-Email Copy Link Copy Link Andy Guthrie performs in Paris in March 2023...
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about 13 months ago (12/04/2023)
Artblog | Poetry and memory, Patricia Moss-Vreeland at the Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Poetry and memory, Patricia Moss-Vreeland at the Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College By Martina Merlo December 4, 2023 Our contributor Martina Merlo sees an exhibition about memory at the Phillips Museum at Franklin and Marshall College....
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about 14 months ago (11/09/2023)
BOMB Magazine | From 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Necessary (Required) Cookies that the site cannot function properly without...
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about 16 months ago (09/13/2023)
Tomaso Binga — Corps — poésie — La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Tomaso Binga — Corps — poésie — La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Tomaso Binga — Corps — poésie Exhibition Collage, drawing, installation, photography Closing Tomaso Binga, Alfabetiere murale (Mural alphabet), 1976 (detail of the work) Photo collage on cardboard, 21 elements, 35,5 × 25,5 cm each Courtesy Archives Menna-Binga, galerie Tiziana Di Caro, Naples et galerie Frittelli arte contemporanea, Florence © Amedeo Benestante Tomaso Binga Corps — poésie Ends in 5 days: September 16 → December 16, 2023 “Corps — poésie” is the first solo exhibition in France by Tomaso Binga (b...
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about 17 months ago (08/11/2023)
'Lasting power' of Hip Hop: Philosophy of 'empowerment and changing society' - France 24 Skip to main content 'Lasting power' of Hip Hop: Philosophy of 'empowerment and changing society' Issued on: 11/08/2023 - 18:10 Modified: 11/08/2023 - 18:28 05:48 © 2023 Video by: Monte FRANCIS Follow It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage...
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about 27 months ago (10/03/2022)
Wong Phui Nam (1935-2022), Prophet of Malayan Poetry | ArtsEquator Skip to content Daryl Lim pays moving tribute to literary marvel Wong Phui Nam and his legacy in the world of poetry on both sides of the Causeway...
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about 30 months ago (07/27/2022)
The Power of a Poem | ArtsEquator Skip to content Zakir Hossain, a celebrated poet and migrant worker in Singapore, wrote a poem, which sparked a response from the state...
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about 33 months ago (04/14/2022)
5 Singapore Female Poets Whose Works You Should Read Skip to content In Singapore, female writers are being increasingly recognised as a dominant force in the local literature scene...
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about 35 months ago (03/03/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 3, 2022 By Chu May Paing (1,532 words, 6-minute read) Witness (noun) 1 : attestation of a fact or event : testimony 2 : one that gives evidence specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal 3 : one asked to be present at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place 4 : one who has personal knowledge of something 5 : something serving as evidence or proof – Merriam-Webster Dictionary When I think about the word “witness” in English, I feel a sense of passivity: one being interpellated into seeing or being in the presence of an event unfolding in proximity of their own body (or mind)...
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about 35 months ago (03/01/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Skip to content A new collection of poems and essays bears witness to the bravery of ordinary citizens since the brutal military coupe of Feb 2021 in Myanmar...
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about 38 months ago (11/23/2021)
Mystery Zone, or A Lotta Endings : Open Space November 23, 2021 Mystery Zone, or A Lotta Endings by Poetry Collaborations with Creative Growth They lived happily ever after And then the sun came up And then the sun go down The couple is riding off into the sunset The End They threw a pie at the shark, the end “We’ll have to do this again sometime” “See ya later, turkey!” “I have a train to catch” My hero! Good night and God bless We’re closed! Take and catch an airplane Keep in touch, never come back!...
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about 38 months ago (11/17/2021)
What’s an Amateur, Anyway? : Open Space November 17, 2021 What’s an Amateur, Anyway? by Poetry Collaborations with Creative Growth Eds note: The prose in this post was written by Creative Growth Poet-in-Residence Lorraine Lupo Heather Edgar, Untitled, 18″x24″ acrylic on paper I like to proselytize to any non-poet who will listen....
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about 63 months ago (11/12/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Poetry, wrestlers and colonialism strikes again in the Philippines | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar DPAC November 13, 2019 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 Artist letters, clockwise from top left: Letters from Mari Keski Korsu, Marietta Radomska, Lee Weng Choy and Filippa Ramos...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 This is our box and our seed in its current resting place inside Mine 3 Platåberget Svalbard, Arctic Circle...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 The interior of the crocodile photographed at the then-Raffles Museum of Biodiversity in 2013...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 Letter from Harriet Rabe Von Froelich...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 Inside the mine with the Migrant Ecologies Project box, with project conceptualiser Dr...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 The one grain we were able to find in the wheat from inside the crocodile was inside this husk, now buried inside the mountain in Svalbard...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 The artist’s book is the main artistic contribution of the Project...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 The artists outside Mine 3 of Platåberget Mountain, in a moment of silence with their boxes in the goodbye ceremony to the exhibition...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 A biscuit tin formerly containing Mermaid Brand Cream Crackers with wheat designs on the outside was chosen as the box to house the wheat as well as test tubes of salt, needles and Singapore’s very own NEWater – all for the wheat’s ritual protection...
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about 67 months ago (07/08/2019)
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 The 4.7m concertina artists book: A Guide to the Interior of a Salt Water Crocodile by Zachary Chan and Lucy Davis with photographs by Kee Ya Ting, June 2019...
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about 79 months ago (07/24/2018)
Weekly Picks: Singapore (23 - 29 July 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Singapore July 24, 2018 Singapore & the World — Behind the Game: Exploring History Through Assassin’s Creed, National Museum of Singapore 28 Jul 2018 Singapore and the World is a programme that focusses on the historical and contemporary connections that links Singapore to the world...
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about 80 months ago (06/20/2018)
50 authors in running for Singapore Literature Prize (via The Straits Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 20, 2018 SINGAPORE – First-time nominations dominated the shortlist of the Singapore Literature Prize, which will involve the public for the first time in the biennial award’s history...
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about 80 months ago (06/19/2018)
Art that Moves: Marc Nair | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: National Arts Council June 19, 2018 Art that Moves is an occasional series where we ask artists and other creative workers to reflect on artworks, performances or events that were personally important to them...
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1960-1969
Fran Herndon
1962Working independently, Herndon experimented at the forefront of a now-canonical method—appropriation—by painting additions into found images from magazines such as Life and Sports Illustrated in a way that imbues the resulting works with mythical significance...
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1970-1979
Luis Pazos
1971La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion...
Anthony McCall
1973The film Line Describing a Cone was made in 1973 and it was projected for the first time at Fylkingen (Stockholm) on 30 August of the same year...
Cecilia Vicuña
Drawing & Print
1977(Drawing & Print) Palabrarma (obreros palabreando) by Cecilia Vicuña is a series of works in which the artist blends poetry, political commentary and graphic design...
Julius Koller
1978This work is one of Koller’s many variations which he began to use from 1970 to describe the ‘cultural situations’ he created...
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1980-1989
Jiri Kovanda
1980Kovanda’s street interventions are always documented according to the same format as the actions: a piece of A4 paper, a typewritten text giving a precise location and date, and a photograph...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 1980s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
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1990-1999
Andrei Monastyrski
Drawing & Print
1992(Drawing & Print) Aktionsplan is a map of the field by Kyevy Gorky...
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2000-2009
Zarina Bhimji
2001Born in Uganda of Indian descent, Bhimji has lived in London after her family sought refuge from the regime of Idi Amin who compulsorily expelled all Asians from Uganda...
Martin Boyce
2003In the installation Our Love is like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Martin Boyce uses common elements from public gardens – trees, benches, trashbins– in a game which describes at once a social space and an abstract dream space...
Fabrice Hyber
Drawing & Print
2003(Drawing & Print) Drawing, which is the essential embodiment of Fabrice Hyber’s artistic thinking, is at the origin of all his works...
Rudolf Polanszky
2005Polanszky’s sculpture is made from raw, found materials that have the patina of age...
Marcelo Cidade
2006This series of photographs reflects Marcelo Cidade’s incessant walks or drifting through the city and his chance encounters with a certain street poetry like the Surrealists or Situationists before him...
Marcelo Cidade
2006This series of photographs reflects Marcelo Cidade’s incessant walks or drifting through the city and his chance encounters with a certain street poetry like the Surrealists or Situationists before him...
Taysir Batniji
2006Fathers #18 and Fathers #27 is part of a series of photographs and videos made in recent years in Gaza...
Shimabuku
2006For the two-channel work Asking the Repentistas – Peneira & Sonhador – to remix my octopus works Shimabuku asked two Brazilian street singers to compose a ballad about his previous works with octopi (in which he created traditional Japanese ceramic vessels to catch octopi, with a fisherman who took him on his boat to test them out as we can see on one of the channel)...
Andrei Monastyrski
2006The series “The Golden lines” was started in 1996 and consists of photographs with “spiritual-transport” lines...
Katinka Bock
2007«I will put two heavy stones in my jacket pockets that way my body will sink deep like a deflated truck tire, no one will notice», this excerpt from “Quay West” by Koltès could echo the story depicted by Katinka Bock: the shipwreck of a small boat full of stones...
Sung Hwan Kim
2007An early work in Sung Hwang Kim’s career, the video Summer Days in Keijo—written in 1937 is a fictional documentary, the film is based on a non-fiction travelogue, In Korean Wilds and Villages , written by Swedish zoologist Sten Bergman, who lived in Korea from 1935 to 1937...
Jason Dodge
2007In Algeria, Djidjiga Meffre has woven a fabric with a string, a length equal to the distance from the earth to troposphere...
Katinka Bock
2008Like with other works of the artist, with First Piano Katinka Bock tried to go against the rules of use of clay, that is, by forcing the material to the extreme, and transferring the resulting elements into a cubic shaped volume...
Evariste Richer
2008Cumulocumulonimbus capillatus incus functions on the mode of a mise en abîme: it is a cube composed with 8000 dice...
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2010-2019
Chris Johanson
2010Chris Johanson’s Untitled (Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat) (2010) pictures a canoe drifting toward an off-kilter horizon line, which demarcates the cobalt sea from the cerulean sky...
Jane Jin Kaisen and Guston Sondin-Kung
2010The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger begins with the sound of women’s voices describing histories of violence, of things repressed and silenced...
Haegue Yang
2010In addition to Yang’s signature drying rack and light bulbs, Office Voodoo includes various office supplies like CDs, paper clips, headphones, a computer mouse, a stamp, a hole puncher, a mobile phone charger...
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2010To the syncopations of a jazzy soundtrack, Korean words in white against a black background flashes between an English dialogue in black text against white ground...
Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu
2011Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu initiated the series 1000 Pieces (of White) in 2009, as a way to produce objects and images as a portrait of their shared life as partners and collaborators...
Aki Sasamoto
2012Poetry Light Stool evokes the spirit of Fluxus, the intermedia movement that encouraged artmaking to be simple, fun, and address everyday life...
Nalini Malani
2012Malani draws upon her personal experience of the violent legacy of colonialism and de-colonization in India in this personal narrative that was shown as a colossal six channel video installation at dOCUMENTA (13), but is here adapted to single channel...
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
2013Another curious element is that it seemed that I was seeing images from the dreams I had that afternoon...
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2013Pacific Limn weaves together three narratives that comment on hyper-capitalism pan-Pacific cities that San Francisco exemplifies...
Bunny Rogers
2014In Rogers’ Columbine works, the artist explores the 1999 high school shooting that took place in Littleton, Colorado, claiming 34 victims...
Gozo Yoshimasu
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Gozo Yoshimasu’s visual-poetry series Dear Monster (Kaibutsu-kun) explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami...
Gozo Yoshimasu
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Gozo Yoshimasu’s visual-poetry series Dear Monster (Kaibutsu-kun) explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami...
Carlos Motta
2014Searching for We’wha is composed of five photographic triptychs combining photographs from the American West (New Mexico and Arizona) with excerpts from American Indian poetry in an attempt to reconstruct imaginary aspects of the life of We’Wha, a famous member of the Zuni tribe, who was born male but who lived a feminine gender expression...
Khadim Ali & Sher Ali
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Transaction/Evacuation is a collaborative painting by Khadim Ali and Sher Ali, and is part of a larger collaborative body of works by the artists, which share the same title...
biarritzzz
2015biarritzzz is interested in how the development of the internet, and experimentation in the virtual world happens simultaneously with the experimentation in the material world of the human species; and how these developments reflect the precariousness of life within neoliberalism...
Abigail Reyes
2016The video work Si Señor by Abigail Reyes is about the typical representation of women in Latin American office culture...
Himali Singh Soin
2016Developed especially for the KADIST-KHOJ collaborative exhibition, Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger , Radar Level is set in the world’s last geological minutes, in two ancient landscapes...
A.K. Burns
2016In a 2002 Pentagon press conference, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addressed a question about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction with an unforgettable evasion: there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, the latter being the most precarious...
I-Hsuen Chen
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Part of the series Still Life Analysis II: The Island , the two photographs The Objects under the Civic Boulevard and A Yellow Blanket on a Wooden Pallet feature household objects of vagrants living beneath the Taipei’s Civic Boulevard expressway...
Haegue Yang
2016A steel clothing rack adorned with turbine vents, Moroccan vintage jewelry, pinecones and knitting yarn, these heterogeneous elements are used here to create an exotic yet undefined identity within the work...
Matthew Langan-Peck
2016Plane is an inflatable sculpture in the shape of an aeroplane made from numerous pieces of plastic bags assembled by an iron...
Gozo Yoshimasu
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) Gozo Yoshimasu’s double-sided work on paper Fire Embroidery explores his response to the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami...
Jibade-Khalil Huffman
2017Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s work brings together spoken and written language, photography, vintage television and computer animation to pay homage to African-American popular culture...
Juliana Huxtable
2017Herculine’s Prophecy by Juliana Huxtable features a kneeling demon-figure on what appears to be a screen-print, placed on a wooden table, which has then been photographed and digitally altered to appear like a book cover, with a title and subtitle across the top, and a poem written across the bottom...
Fredi Casco
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) Pascua Dolorosa (Painful Easter) by Fredi Casco is a series of drawings made on old worksheets documenting land surfaces in Caapucú, a forest exploitation area where one of the most violent episodes of the repression of Stroessner’s dictatorship took place in 1976, and during which peasants accused of belonging to insurgent movements were kidnapped, tortured and many of them killed...
Diamond Stingily
2017Dad is Byron is an audio work produced in collaboration between Diamond Stingily and her father, the house musician Byron Stingily...
Francisca Benítez
2018You have given the world your songs by Francisca Benítez is a poem in American Sign Language (ASL)...
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
2018Anointed by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Dan Lin is a poem recital/video that addresses the American nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands that occurred between 1946 to 1958 in Bikini and Enewetak Atolls...
Emeka Okereke
2018Bariga Nights is a photographic series set in the Bariga neighborhood in Lagos (Nigeria)...
Didem Pekün
2018The black-and-white projection, Araf by Didem Pekün, begins, as a lithe man stands high up in the middle of the grand, rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
John Lucas and Claudia Rankine
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Historically, blondeness has been a signifier for desirability and beauty, speaking to “purity” — the purity of whiteness — like no other bodily attribute except, perhaps, blue eyes...
Jota Mombaça
2018The performance title A Gente Combinamos De Não Morrer (BANDEIRA #1) / Us Agreed Not To Die (FLAG #1) is taken from a short story by Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo, whose work addresses violence, resilience, and necropolitics with an Afro-diasporic lens...
Rindon Johnson
Advanced Technology
2019(Advanced Technology) The VR play Meat Growers: A Love Story by Rindon Johnson centers on two meat growers who work together in a meat processing factory in the year 2100...
Karla Dickens
2019Karla Dickens’s collage Beneath the skim board addresses issues of discrimination and racism towards Indigenous communities in Australia through a constellation of historical and current events...
Enrique Ramirez
2019Enrique Ramirez’s La Memoria Verde is a work of poetry, politics, and memory created in response to the curatorial statement for the 13th Havana Biennial in 2019, The Construction of the Possible ...
Mandy El-Sayegh
2019Mandy El Sayegh grew up in a medicalized environment, surrounded by anatomy, biology and psychology publications; these books inspire the figures that appear throughout her work...
Sancintya Mohini Simpson
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) And words were whispered by Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a series of ten works on paper based on the lived experiences of Indian women taken to the Natal region of South Africa from the 1860s to the early 1900s to work in tea and sugarcane plantations during apartheid, which included servitude in its broadest and most sinister definition...
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
2019The Lion’s Hunt by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy is a large format painting that recalls Delacroix’s paintings and tapestries from the 19th century, where the painterly surface became a garden invaded by wild beasts...
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2020-2029
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2020The absurd condition of human survival under environmental degradation and geonational balkanization is taken as a starting point for WA’AD by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES...
Lenora de Barros
2021Lenora de Barros’s poetics are known for setting in motion an intimate relationship between image and the written word...
Jesse Chun
2021O (for various skies) by Jesse Chun is a two-channel video sculpture that decentralizes American colonial narratives about the moon through “unlanguaging”—a methodology that the artist has conceptualized for unfixing language...
Sancintya Mohini Simpson
2021Dhuwã (term used by indentured people of Natal for ‘smoke’), is a single-channel film by Sancintya Mohini Simpson that traces back to the lived experiences of indentured labourers taken from India to Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) to work on sugar plantations during the late 1800s and early 1900s...
Jota Mombaça
2022Ghost 1: Drowning is not a poem but is not not a poem either by Jota Mombaça is part of a series of sculptures exploring water’s restless, elemental properties and what the artist describes as “the radicality of sinking”...
Anju Dodiya
2022The Shedding by Anju Dodiya is part of a series of mattress paintings the artist creates using fabric stretched on padded and shaped boards...
