Pat Badani Entrée Spanning three decades of engagement with food in artistic research-creation, I’ve steadily explored networked ecosystems and entangled becomings expressed through narratives of care. Interweaving different connections, forms of knowledge and sensitivities, the artworks complicate the role of…
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Enacting cognitive change through Australian art
Jondi Keane and Katie Lee The embodied practice of cognitive reading From a creative practice point of view, it would be fair to characterize the cognitive turn[1] as one that has universalized and naturalized how thought and experience are understood.…
The chronicle of <the archive fever dream team>
(Text generated by AI in collaboration with Eugene Hansen, Jenny Gillam and Bruce E. Phillips) [preamble] That Subliminal AI: Whose words course through you? The Doctor 2 AI: The authors or drivers of this piece are collectors. A narrator in…
Social Practices and the Shifting Discourse: On Collaborative Strategies and ‘Curating the Social’
Martin Patrick If art and politics meet at all, it’s in the obligation to work concretely in the present toward an ideal that may never be fully attainable. Barry Schwabsky[1] The distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors…
My Personal Photographer’s Manifesto
Abdi Osman Preamble The necessity for a Personal Photographer’s manifesto of practice and ideas is crucial in our historical moment. Images matter more and more and Black and African people have often been at the wrong end of images that…
Creative Demolition at the American Museum of Natural History
Zoe Beloff Zoe Beloff, The Theodore Roosevelt Statue, 2020, iphone photographs. Images courtesy of the artist. Setting the Stage Arriving at the main entrance of the American Museum of Natural History one is confronted by a great bronze statue.…
Tempestas Digital
Marilyn Allen Tempestas Digital (The Tempest, Act I, scene ii, / BBC, 25 August, 2020), 3’00” film, 2020. The socially habituated practices associated with digital technologies have engendered, perhaps inadvertently, a socio-technical network between human and digital subjects. Our perception…
AN ESSAY ON THE MONKEY BOOK
Theo Macdonald and Isabella Dampney Written and designed by or BELLA AND THEO IDEATE, an exhibition at RM Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand) in June 2017. OBJECTIVE 1: A MONKEY BOOK IS NOT AN ARTIST BOOK, NOVEL, ZINE, MONOGRAPH, OR PUBLICATION.…
Thoughts on the dichotomy between socially-oriented performance as a lifelike art form and its relation to the institutionalized art world
Lena Pozdnyakova Western art actually has two avant-garde histories: one of artlike art and the other of lifelike art. They’ve been lumped together as parts of a succession of movements fervently committed to innovation, but they represent fundamentally contrasting philosophies…
The Wave Rolling In
Pavel Arsenev on VOLNA art collective If those arrangements were to disappear as they appeared, if some event of which we can at the moment do no more than sense the possibility – without knowing either what its form will…