Spot 1: FIRE ECOLOGY
ATLANTA ART ECOSYSTEMS
FIRE ECOLOGY
Fire Ecology is a three-year, multi-part project that spans public programs, publishing, and archival initiatives. It adopts the metaphor of Fire Ecology—the practice of maintain ecosystem health by using controlled fires to burn old growth, thereby fertilizing the soil, and clearing space for new growth to thrive.
Spot 2: RECENTLY ON ARTPAPERS.ORG
Coleman Collins, The Upper Room
Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
They Will Not Complete It In Their Lifetimes
It’s electric, jumping from each artist’s work, between the various materials and representations, yet they unite in their futurity to prompt questions: What will remain of us, and what transcends understanding?
Spot 3: The sky is falling, the wind is calling
Imagination Dead Imagine
Without a Future, We Can Be Forever
Interview: Amalia Mesa-Bains
Karen Holmberg: Archaeology in an Emergency
In Part One of this two-part conversation, Will Corwin and Karen Holmberg discuss her fascination with volcanoes, her discovery of mysterious “spider vulva” petroglyphs, and consider whether these images can still speak to us.
Because the Sky Will Be Filled With Sulfur—Jeremy Bolen
Spot 4: Nucleus of the Subconscious
Leah Clements—INSOMNIA
Providing access to the exhibition for blind and partially sighted people, this audio description acts as a way in for all audiences. Excitingly, here, through this interpretive sonic contribution, the visual aid becomes an affective feature rather than simply a functional element. It affects pace, the order of encounter, and the awareness of oneself in the environment, embedding us within it. It asks us to pay attention, to be indulgent with our time, and in so doing, to allow details and sensations to emerge.
Afterlife Geographies | The Past & Other Dreams
In so far as the afterlife is accessed through the imagination, the afterlife situates what a future world might entail, and rearranges the pieces of the world, as we knew it, into a vision of the future. Afterlife Geographies considers sacred sites, sites of restoration, sites of reclamation, and sites of liberation.
The 12th Liverpool Biennial: Actual and Curatorial Displacements
Locus Hour
In Thill’s work, spirituality and hope coexist in tension with the banal materials of daily life, presenting an idea of transcendence that must pass through and engage with the grit of existence.
Spot 5: Other Creatures
How To Make an Old World New?
Notes on the Whales in the Room
Entwined with the whaling industry, then, which peaked in the mid-19th century, was the violence of a colonial modernity that rendered the world open for the taking.
Passenger—Migration Patterns on the Living and Those of the Dead
Millions of dead birds follow such new migratory paths, which draw capital from the south and the east into the north and the west. Often, these paths consolidate, convene in the centers of the colonizing empires—London and Paris—for a few years, or decades, before moving on to museums in the new world. These routes are not the birds’ natural flyways. They are new paths toward a capitalist archive that usurps purpose from the world it exploits.
Flipper, Cousteau, and Homo aquaticus
Spot 6: Painter’s Painter
Katharina Grosse: Lush Irreverence
Jonathan Lasker: Visible Thoughts
Nicole Eisenman: Fantastic Worlds
Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of self-portraiture. Even the work that doesn’t look like self-portraiture is self-portraiture. My father is a psychiatrist, and a part of our dialogue together is analyzing the inner lives of various artists, how their unconscious thoughts show up in their work. Those conversations taught me to look at my work in the same way. It’s similar to analyzing a dream. It’s so interesting to me.
Spot 7: Georgia on my Mind
Amanda Grae Platner: It’s Still Not Me, It’s You
In It’s Still Not Me, It’s You at Atlanta’s Echo Contemporary Art, Platner’s self-portraits and installations invite the viewer into her world. She coaxes empathy through a variety of strategies, some that are playful and interactive, others that involve showing pain.
Bump and Grind / Search and Destroy
Let It Flow—Hannah Palmer’s Reimagined Atlanta
The Eyes Were Always on Us
