Daniel Oliva’s Home Economics
Daniel Oliva’s Home Economics an essay by Andrea Kirsh Daniel Oliva employs an accessible visual language that reflects the breadth of his subject – nothing less than the state of the nation. He makes a plea to understand the injustices of the past as a foundation upon which to build a just future. His newest body of … Continue reading
Notes on the NAVA Diagram
Notes on the NAVA Diagram By Asha Sheshadri September 2018 We Might Consider these rhetorical questions, from one friend to another: do you feel a unique and distinct panic when language suddenly seems to fail you when times are most urgent (if so) with this panic, do you feel the weight of the capsized vessel (the … Continue reading
NAVA
10.5 – 10.21, 2018 nava (F)-(M) /noun/verb/adjective/geography/universals 1. language is one method of human communication, faith(s), self, identity and healing properties. Nava is a namesake that intersects, region, nation, cultural landscapes, vexillology, and lineage. 2. transformations and signage is the cornerstone that(‘s) bring(s) [ing] object(s) to the foreground celebrating multiplicity and connecting community. … Continue reading
MAKE THEORY WALK
Dr. Elizabeth Bishop is a writer, researcher, educator and youth advocate. She lives in New York City where she is a Director at Global Kids and faculty of Youth Studies at CUNY SPS. @drbishopdigital http://www.dropknowledgeproject.org Tamsen Wojtanowski is an artist and educator. She lives in Philadelphia where she is a founding member of the artist-run … Continue reading
THE TALLEST STATUE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
THE TALLEST STATUE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE an essay for Boca de Lobo a solo exhibition by Ricardo Zapata 1. Let’s start at the airport you flew into, I said. It only takes a couple seconds to leave the airport and reach downtown San Juan. From there we take PR-22 west. We are heading to … Continue reading
Exhibition Essay for Ava Hassinger’s SISYPHUS
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Signal Boost
Signal Boost Juan C. Giraldo Zora J. Murff & Lorenzo Triburgo Curated by Jordan Rockford & Rafael Soldi In partnership with Strange Fire Collective In the last decade, social media platforms have quickly become engines for amplification, allowing organizing and sharing of messages on a global scale. This new tool, signal-boosting, has proven to … Continue reading
The Mind Made Material: An essay on Marianne Dages’s Into the Valley by Anne Cross
The Mind Made Material An essay on Marianne Dages’s Into the Valley by Anne Cross The subject of Marianne Dages’s latest work is words and the spaces between them. With an artistic practice that manifests itself variously as image, text, sculpture, and sound, Dages engages language as both form and content, pressing upon and pulling apart … Continue reading
Modus Operandi: Statements on APPARATUS
Modus Operandi: Statements on APPARATUS APPARATUS is an exhibition of video and performance, and its related ephemera. An “apparatus” is defined as the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose. Each artist in this exhibition has chosen an apparatus as the basic framework for their process. These tools, devices and instruments … Continue reading
Reflect/Collect: An Essay on the Ones We Know
Reflect/Collect: An Essay On The Ones We Know The One You Know brings together all ten NAPOLEON artists, each of whom have chosen a guest artist whose work resonates with their own. Artists are generally viewed as makers but we also fit the opposing impulse with just as much passion; we are also collectors. For … Continue reading
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