January 2012
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I'm going to be working on a presentation for a...
I still have to write the presentation itself out, but it’ll be for the Student Activism class. I’m planning on talking about art in social movements. I also want to discuss how some artists and their art practices protest structures of power. I’m beyond excited!
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Lygia Pape's Livro do Tempo: 'An Alphabet of... →
A look at Lygia Pape’s Livro do Tempo (The Book of Time). She was one of the founders, along with Lygia Clark and Helio Oticica, of the Neo-Concretist movement in Brazil.
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Postcolonial politics threatens integrity of... →
Even artists have to have boundaries. When their creative interests and endeavors begin to threaten not only the environment, but that space’s relationship to a people’s culture and history, we need to examine what politics are being and are not being addressed. The State barging into an indigenous people’s space to uproot and appropriate their culture is reflective of the...
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Imminent Domain: The Spaces of Occupation (via... →
Artforum invited sociologist Saskia Sassen to discuss the relationship of occupation to notions of territory and power, while artist Hans Haacke, whose own work has famously made visible the hidden economies and spatial politics of art, presents a selection of photographs he took at Occupy Wall Street this past fall.
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Why Are We Expected To Line Up For Red Tails But... →
This is a really great piece on black filmmakers in Hollywood. Due to the lack of black filmmakers in Hollywood, George Lucas feels that if his film flops at the box office, along with it will go the hopes and stories of black filmmmakers. While well intended, Lucas’ comment fails to realize the work black filmmakers are doing outside of Hollywood. What he should be doing is questioning why...
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"7 Rooms" by Rafal Malich (via Guernica) →
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Swoon is back in the Mission! (via missionlocal) →
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"Giving a Face to Black Queer Identity" (via... →
A wonderful piece on Zanele Muholi at hyperallergic. In talking about queer photography and queer artists, names that come up tend to be overwhelmingly white and from the U.S. or Europe. Considering the amount of queer photographers out there in the world, all of whom may or may not be working with specifically queer issues, it is great that Muholi’s work, which focuses entirely on black...
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A Colorado woman punches and then rubs her behind... →
This is amazing.
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Jillian Steinhauer on Hammond's Fallen →
Jillian Steinhauer defends her original piece on Jane Hammond’s “Fallen”. Apparently, her piece was critiqued for not having spoken about the more than 100,000 fallen Iraqi’s in the war. I have to agree with Steinhauer’s defense. Hammond’s “Fallen” is about the soldiers, and as much as we may want to talk about those who may have been silenced...
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Colorlines talks about race and hollywood with... →
I will hopefully be seeing this sometime this weekend.
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23 Political Art Stories From 2011 (via Art... →
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“In my creative crises I just wait from month to month until creation comes and...”
– Sigurdur Gudmundsson
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“You can watch people align themselves when trouble is in the air. Some prefer to...”
– Jenny Holzer
