Spot 1: Strategies of Response
Ricardo Dominguez: Charting Virtual and Real Borders
Electronic activism and performance art, and how artists might respond to the increasingly bordered conditions of our world.
Counterpublic 2019
Spot 2: D. Eric Bookhardt: In Memoriam
Convention Culture: New Orleans ’88
As summer steamed into oblivion it was tempting to say that nothing much was happening or had happened in the period before and after the Republican convention. Yet in its own way that media spectacle has by its sheer banal extravagance provided a kind of contextual frame around things, for matters both pointed and tangential.
Spaces: Antenna, The Front and Good Children Gallery
Jacqueline Humphries
Danger in the Liminal Spaces
Instead of pigments on canvas, the computer manipulates pixels in a monitor where the visible world is reduced to infinitely shifting variations on the screen.
Spot 3: Georgia
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
Sonya Yong James: LOUD MAGIC
Spot 4: Interviews
James Allister Sprang: a breaking from, a breaking with, a breaking out
Asynchronies and breaks act simultaneously as points of racial reckoning and poetics.
Yozmit: Embodiment And Metamorphosis
Los Angeles–based performance artist, costume designer, and singer-songwriter Yozmit emphasizes the body as a site of transformation
Tattfoo Tan: Designing Rituals
Will Corwin sat down with Tattfoo Tan to discuss tactics of creating audience engagement and participation, social practice, and the spiritual side of art.
Spot 5: Origins of Creativity
Yohannes Haile-Selassie: Ancient & Unexpected Neighbors
The conversation touches on the evolutionary uses of creativity, raising problematic questions about why we are creative: is it only to get ahead and create more viable offspring, or is there something more?
Gender and Artistic Practice in the Ice Age
Keeper of antiquities and curator of the blockbuster 2013 exhibition “Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind,” Jill Cook explains the idea of spiritual landscapes, the surreal continuity between ancient and modern artistic practice, and gender equality in the Paleolithic.
We Were Creative Before We Were Human
Freshly back from excavating in the Afar desert of northeast Ethiopia, Yonas Beyene PhD sat down in his Addis Ababa office to discuss the origins of human creativity.