Spot 1: Interviews
Chang Yuchen: Language, Use, Value
Traveling from China to the US in early 2020, the strangely fragmented temporality of solitude, and feeling useless.
Julie Mehretu: Emergent Propositions & Entropic Systems
Investigating power structures through abstraction, becoming a student of oneself, and entropic systems.
Spot 2: GRITS
Michael Rakowitz:
A Desert Home Companion
In an effort to suture the communicative divide between Middle Eastern and American cultures, an artist nourishes discourse through the palate, and the tongue.
Gina Adams: Its Honor Is Hereby Pledged
Grits
An artist’s research took her to all 13 Presidential Libraries in the United States; notes from her stopover at the Carter Center weave archival research into intimate historical fiction.
Spot 3: Living & Working
Telling Stories About Ourselves: Zia Anger’s Radical Mythmaking
FOCUS GROUP II: PARATEXT
The awkwardness and luxury of an online video exhibition.
Lilly McElroy: Absurdity Is a Protest
Wrestling with light and absurdity in a world transformed by a global virus.
Spot 4: Art of the New Civil Rights Era
Randy Ford: How To Pave a Street for Queens
A conversation about creating and protecting spaces for queer and trans people of color.
Celestia Morgan
Celestia Morgan, a conceptual photographer and sculptor living in Birmingham, AL, captures systems of inequality and justice.
Tariku Shiferaw
Unabashedly confronting issues related to racial identity, Tariku Shiferaw employs an obstinately formalist language of geometric abstraction in his practice to unpack the precariousness of contemporary Black life and celebrate the cultural production of Black people.
Spot 5: 1988 Special Issue on Contemporary Black Artists
Interview: David Hammons
“I can’t stand art actually. I’ve never, ever liked art, ever.”
Where is the Art World Left?
Where is the artworld “Left” in the age of “trickle-down,” homelessness, the rise of the Aryan Nation and corporate art coma: a dehumanization of art and artist into a common denominator of profit?
Spot 6: Founding Stories
Founding Stories:
Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta
Founding Stories: Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta” was a decade-by-decade series of panel discussions exploring the founding stories of a selection of Atlanta’s DIY, grassroots, and artist-run spaces.
Founding Stories: 1980s
The Mattress Factory Group, Blue Rat Gallery, Arts Exchange, Little Beirut Art Space & Café Bizzoso.