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I took a community-college workshop five years ago with Kirk Stoller, an artist whose work I could look at forever. Kirk used carpentry tailings…
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Momus & Forge Project Announce Participants of “Estuaries”
Forge Project and Momus are pleased to announce the participants in Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency, which will be led by Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoa)…
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Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang
While I had followed their work for some time, I did not meet Catalina Ouyang until last fall, at a symposium at Stanford University…
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Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents
In Hongcheon, a county two hours east of Seoul, sits a wellness center designed to resemble a prison. Run by an organization named Happitory,…
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Submerged Mothers: On Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s Tidal Embrace
A sea dragon and a mountain fairy lay one hundred eggs To each land, its origin story. Vietnam is the child of a sea-dwelling…
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Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer
A raccoon was screaming in agony with a gash in their side in Mollie’s backyard when I called to check in. “Animal control refused…
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It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb
For the ancient Greeks, the division of time was represented by a separation of chronos from kairos. To symbolize durational or cyclical time, Greco-Roman…
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All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s…
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief
If they were lucky, novels about artists published in the past year got to ride the wave of a literary trend termed “Künstlermania.” The…
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“We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery
When Equinox Gallery—one of Canada’s best-established galleries, and a longstanding benchmark of Vancouver’s art scene—announced its 50th anniversary, earlier this year, I did a…
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