Notes from the farm I have never experienced being part of this kind of a project. I have gained a lot from other participants and their way of thinking. I would like to make a work and add this knowledge to it – create a cloth where each participant’s presence will be in the piece. […]
Artist, What I need is a short description of the art featured on the attached magazine spread and the exhibition it was included in. We hope to use the photo with a short caption on the index page of the May-June alumni magazine. If you would like a copy after publication, please drop me an address […]
[This post is about the 1970 film White People by the Slovenian artist collective OHO. If you have arrived here by mistake looking for a White People of OHIO Manifesto, click on this link here to be redirected] Indeed, we were inspired by one such pavilion, the Sintgalerija (Synth Gallery), built by the Slovenian artist […]
first a reminder I am a ghost a library’s ghost I died when he my librarian packed up his library aka me and put it me into plastic boxes in his basement only to proceed to build another library a living library which is where I now haunt and speak to you from today although […]
This week’s question is how a library’s ghost approaches the phenomenon such an urgent and vital genre as the manifesto? Let’s start by thinking about what a manifesto library could be. Here I have to ask my librarian to think back to his experience at the Manifesto Library, an exhibition by Blake Turner at the […]
B: People talk of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt the economy of Europe. But they don’t ! ! mention the African Plan, which enabled Hitler’s hordes at a time when their economies !! were under siege, their stability threatened. Who saved Europe? It was Africa. There is very little talk about that. There is so […]
Notice the care with which [Edmonia] Lewis sculpted their [Minnehaha, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha (1855), and the arrow maker – Minnehaha’s father] deer-hide moccasins and perhaps paid homage to her two aunts, who made and sold moccasins in her ancestral Anishinaabeg homeland. – America Meredith, ‘In Focus: Edmonia Lewis: The Old Arrow […]
A necropastoral. This term is not in the dictionary. Where did I first hear it? [cf. Joyelle McSweeney’s ‘What Is the Necropastoral?‘] It does not exist and yet it was said and is now being repeated. I was born. In a slave narrative that means nothing. Meaningless. I was born and in the midst of […]