Judith Baumann “There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows…
Category: Supernature
Supernature issue of Drain
Satellite Fields
Satellite Fields is a series of large-scale land art formations created on the plains of North Dakota. Each piece is composed of hundreds of living trees, planted in stark geometric formations, so that they are visible and “visitable” by satellite…
Zombie Argument
Harrison Higgs I equate the idea of human civilization with that of the supernatural, as a move away from and beyond nature. Technology, language, media, our items of luxury and desire– taken together have become our (collective) primary activity. The…
Where The Other Hand Is Clapping
Aaron Wexler There’s something about elements in nature that are always surprisingly abstract to me. I’m interested in shapes in nature as they relate to abstraction in painting. In my work I investigate the curious, rich area of visual potential…
The Clipperton Project
The Clipperton Project is a multi-disciplinary, international arts and science project which aims to take a group of 20 outstanding practitioners, from 8 different countries, on an expedition to the deserted island of Clipperton in March 2012. Clipperton is an inhospitable paradise; 1280km…
Wide Receivers
Mónika Sziládi My work investigates how the construction of the human subject may or may not be independent from acts of–and a culture of–consumption. American commerce offers broad opportunities for individuals to re-describe themselves while simultaneously, through advertising and media…