Gupi Ranganathan A site and time specific mural drawing project conceived and created for the Simmons University Trustman Gallery Anteroom Space, Boston MA, 25 March – 5 August 2019. trans-form: a study for liminal meanderings, 2019, Video of site and…
Author: avantika
Unreliable Landscapes
David Cowlard An asynchronous timing is in play. The Downtown Shopping Centre opened on 30 April 1975. It was the only mall in the Auckland Central Business District and boasted 80 stores over three floors. It closed forty-one years later…
Unbuilding
Ryan Riss This is what happens when one unbuilds a drawing. Unbuilding elicits an act or a movement. It is more action than the thing. It is more about living life than the life lived. Unbuilding is about being as…
Cardboard Constructions
Richard Maloy Cardboard Structure, City Gallery Wellington, 2010, Cardboard, masking tape, paint. Image courtesy of the artist and City Gallery Wellington. This series, documentation of Richard Maloy’s cardboard constructions works brings together for the first time this ongoing body of…
Single Use
Heidi Schwegler All images and video by and courtesy of Heidi Schwegler. Designed – Manufactured – Consumed – Tossed Though ubiquitous, you’ve probably never thought about how polystyrene is made (a material frequently mistaken for Styrofoam). In the ‘pre-puff stage’,…
Pangea: A Multimedia Epoch
Hannah Newman The following poems are sourced from direct, indirect, and altered quotes from the cited sources. Hannah Newman, Lumps That Leak / Soft Bodies, 2021, epoxy clay, flocking, smartphones, charging cables, single-channel videos, vinyl, and paint. Image courtesy Mario…
The Woman, Examined
Kara McMullen 1. The first woman stood at the window watching a crow lift its wings and clean them, feather by black feather. The tree in front of the house was past yellow, dropping its leaves. The house had been…
D.E. May and the Gift of Unknowable Intimacy
Abigail Susik All images from the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon unless noted. I One of the reasons for abstract art’s ascendancy over the last century is surely its simultaneous accommodation of the…
QUEERFACTURE
Queerfacture is coined here as a term, open to critique, that aims to provoke thoughts and ideas about different kinds of artmaking. How can facture, technique, spatialization, composition or practice transform LGBTIQ2+ individuals’ experiences of brutal and subtle forms of…
Colonisation, Heteronormativity and Ironic Subversions: Tejal Shah and Yuki Kihara
Anisha Verghese Colonially imposed taxonomies of gender, and sexual orientation have led to the replacement and elision of alternative ways of understanding sexuality. In the late-nineteenth century, the emerging Indian middle class—formed through the intersection of colonialism, missionary colonial Christianity,…