Spot 1: Disability + Visibility
Access+Ability
Giving It Away
A conversation on disability and capitalism by way of Constantina Zavitsanos’ artistic practice.
Glossary: Disability + Visibility
An introduction of key terms for disability.
Spot 2: Atlanta
Cast Iron
An artist almost drowns, then reflects on Black Buoyancy, Hemingway, and Mami Wata.
The Infinite Nature of Black
Artist Paul Stephen Benjamin’s work explores the relevance, resonance, and poetics of the color black and ranges across media including photography, painting, video, and sculpture. We discussed his belief in simplicity, the relationship between interpretation and artist intention, and the experience of preparing for his solo debut in New York City.
Art on MARTA
A photo essay by David Naugle documenting the public art of Atlanta’s rapid transit system brings a vast collection of commissions out of the stations’ shadows
with an introduction by John Cocker.
Spot 3: Reviews
The 43rd Annual Atlanta Film Festival
Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome
Skyscraper
Spot 4: Borders, Barriers
Condomillennium
Aaron Gemmill has spent years photographing the proliferation of luxury condominiums, mostly in Brooklyn, NY. His project is a selection of these photos (which Gemmill originally posted to Instagram under the hashtag “#condoreport) and his prints of the Plexiglas windowpanes used to give passersby a glimpse into construction sites.
Porous Cosmopolis: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s many co-extensive projects merge activist praxis, intellectual and skill exchange, horizontalist planning, and creative production to examine and change the way that borders, and the communities around them, are conceived of and function.
Spot 5: Ports of Call
Gray Harbor
What such water goods reveal—only to persons close enough to smell the clinging dregs of seaweed or willing to caress the faux-leather handbag tucked into a cellophane sleeve—are the sentient negotiations of supple conquest.
Captives
I went back to Charleston, SC, for a wedding recently, and of all the port cities I have visited, lived in, or loved, Charleston is the worst.