This is a view [sic] of an ironbark forest on my mother’s country, Bidjara, at Mount Moffatt in Western Queensland, Australia. On this day, fifty members of my family gathered to pay our respects to our ancestors and to conduct “welcome to country” ceremonies for two babies. Through my mother’s father, Edward Lawton, my family […]
For today’s K’acha Willaykuna survivance story, we turn to the Wokini Initiative at South Dakota State University. According to a letter to High Country News (which you can read below), in response to their far-reaching article Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land is the Foundation of the Land-Grant University System, South Dakota University, a land-grant university, […]
Barely vertical. Hunched over. Looking at the floor. Breathing. Take few small steps, arrive at the sofa. Small steps to turn the body around. Still looking at the floor. Slowly bends the knees reaching both arms to help. Sits. Still hunched over. Still looking at the floor. Breathing.
Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, 10:13:51 Hellenic Parliament, Athens, 10:13:51
At idle moments during this endless lockdown, have you ever imagined what the artworks in all those museums storage units around the world are getting up to right now? Of course, that troublemaker John Waters has. Writing on the Walker Art Center website back in 2011, he mused: Are prints, sculptures, paintings and photographs relieved […]
“International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. Yet progress has slowed in many places across the world, so global action is needed to accelerate gender parity. Leaders across the world are pledging to take action as champions of gender parity – not only for International Women’s Day, but for […]
Do you miss browsing books in the Wex Store? Well, now you can transport yourself there via a new Wex Store playlist curated by Store Manager Matt Reber (available on iTunes – click the image below to listen). You can also read about the playlist on the Wex Blog: https://wexarts.org/read-watch-listen/daily-stream-wex-store-playlist I was honored to make […]
I can’t recall too many moving image works installed in gallery B, but even if I could, I don’t believe any could compete with the intensity of Mickalene Thomas’ 12 monitor video installation Me as Muse (2016) included the 2018 exhibition Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me. For the earlier (2017-2018) exhibition Trigger: […]
In the film le feu follet (The fire within, 1963), the main character, Alain Leroy, played by Maurice Ronet, regularly contemplates the date July 23 written across his mirror. This date imprints itself as an image. It also recalls the film Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7, 1962) by Agnès Varda, […]
Wastelands/peripheral fields/gaps in the urban/are places here boundaries show themselves as something in motion-fluid-uncertain. Areas leftto their own devices in all their variety correspond to today’s necessities/the noticing of caesurae/connections and their repercussions/to be seen as a symbol of voluntary renunciation/of nonintervention. Space/created as a consequence of precise carelessness toward/what we generally call nature – […]