Documentary After Truth
Documentary After Truth, our Fall 2024 theme, looks to artists who use the formal attributes and aesthetic markers of documentary, historical documentation, and other non-fiction forms to present fictional narratives. This theme questions what trust we can place in the formal and aesthetic markers conventionally associated with nonfiction, and what positive, generative, or redemptive potentials such forms carry today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
— Re’al Christian, Dark Study: on Emily Jacir, Forensic Architecture, and fugitive documentary
— Heather Bird Harris, Zora J. Murff: Documenting the Shadow Empire
— Samaira Wilson, Amber Esseiva: Call and Response
— Tomi Sey Laja, Jen Everett: Kinship, Interiority & the Black Femme Gaze
— Tara Anna Dalbow, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess—The Finest Disregard
— EC Flamming, The Perpetual Almost
— Anthony Hawley, Auscultation (n.)
— COMING SOON: Conversation with Hannah Palmer and Chip Moody
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Dark Study: on Emily Jacir, Forensic Architecture, and fugitive documentary
Fugitivity, as it relates to Black study, has been a mode of contesting misrecognition through a lens of narrative darkness....
Zora J. Murff: Documenting the Shadow Empire
Zora J Murff is an artist and educator whose work critically examines systemic oppression and the cultural, historical, and personal...
Amber Esseiva: Call and Response
Amber Esseiva is curator of the group exhibition Dear Mazie, at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University....
Jen Everett: Kinship, Interiority & the Black Femme Gaze
Outside Jen Everett’s studio, balmy air collects against warm St. Louis bricks, but my summer sweat is instantly soothed as...
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess—The Finest Disregard
Even her utilitarian tableware—tortilla plates and coffee mugs—appear sculptural, not functional. Whereas many ceramicists, including her husband, take great pains to rid their work of evidence of their physicality, eradicating touch, pressure, emotion, and kinetic energy, Magdalena’s sculptures quiver with her presence. Fingerprints, pinch marks, patchwork, the spontaneity and surety of her brushstrokes altogether engender a perceptible alive-ness.
The Perpetual Almost
A couple of months have passed since Atlanta Art Week and the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair. Parties attended, networking achieved,...
Auscultation
Artifact Auscultation: A Speculative Examination for Mati Diop’s Dahomey Auscultation, n., the action of listening to sounds from the heart,...