ECHOES Episode 5

Gean Moreno + Stephanie Bailey in Conversation

ECHOES is a monthly series where we spotlight our community of contributors—writers and artists who’ve been central to Art Papers creative and rigorous coverage over the years. New episodes release the last Saturday of each month and are available on Youtube and Spotify.

This month, we have a dialogue between Gean Moreno and Stephanie Bailey discussing resilience and resistance, and other overlapping ideas surrounding our Spring 2024 theme: Reworlding.  If you haven’t already, check out Stephanie’s feature, How To Make an Old World New? Notes on the Whales in the Room and Gean’s Imagination Dead Imagine linked below!

Stephanie Bailey’s text
Gean Moreno + Stephanie Wakefield’s text

Stephanie Bailey is an Art Papers contributing editor, global editor-at-large for Ocula Magazine, an editor for Art Basel Stories, and conversations curator and content advisor for Art Basel Hong Kong. Formerly the senior editor of Ibraaz, where she worked from 2012–2017, and director of the first BTEC-accredited foundation diploma in art and design in Greece from 2009-2012,  Bailey has contributed to Artforum, Art Monthly, Art Review, dɪ’van: A Journal of Accounts, Spike, and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among others, and also edits for M+, the museum of visual culture in Hong Kong. She is currently working on a PhD at Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, exploring the historical and contemporary intersections between art and the pursuit of human rights.

 

Gean Moreno is Director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at ICA Miami, and part of the institution’s curatorial team where he has organized exhibitions dedicated to the work of Hélio Oiticica, Terry Adkins, Shuvanai Ashoona, Ettore Sottsass, and others. He is the founder and current director of [NAME] Publications, a press dedicated to art theory; the “Migrant Archives” initiative, and also serves on the editorial and advisory committees of several publications and foundations including the 2017 Whitney Biennial advisory committee.

Moreno‘s texts have appeared in numerous catalogues and anthologies, and he has written for various publications including e-flux journal, Art in America, Kaleidoscope, and MONU—Magazine for Urbanism.

 

Stephanie Wakefield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University and holds a PhD in Geography from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Wakefield’s work as an urban geographer critically analyzes the technical, political, and philosophical transformations of urban life in the Anthropocene.

Dr. Wakefield is co-editor of Resilience in the Anthropocene: Governance and Politics at the End of the World (Routledge) and author of Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space (Open Humanities Press), as well as numerous articles in academic journals including Urban Studies, Urban Geography, Political Geography, Geography Compass, ands Geoforum. Her book, Miami in the Anthropocene: Urban Resilience and Rising Seas, is forthcoming this Winter with University of Minnesota Press.