good morning. portrait of an artist got up n did stuff… going through another break-up. mentally tired. lost on the @whitneymuseum drama… not doing activism today… but not doing radical rest either. May you overcome your hierarchies today. DAY 1 of @ayana.m.evans IG Takover So let’s recap…1. They are executing protestors in Kenosha, WI. And Wisconsin cops did nothing …
The Playground Project, or, Imagined Tours “I’ve asked people for guided tours for twenty years. Most often, they’ve walked or driven me around their neighborhoods, and I’ve photographed their places. But this time of social distancing and constrained mobility has got me returning to a different part of that practice, a project in which I’ve …
01- A Search for Ghosts in the Meat Machine (detail)Examining ways humans seek to understand themselves both through science and personal narrative. A set of nine sculptures exploring the existential notion of being quantifiable in today’s data-obsessed landscape. 02- A Taxonomy of Possible ConsciousnessExploring mind-body dualism, transhumanism, and AI, this work investigates the relationship between …
A page from the artist’s working diary for the project “My Heart is a Void, the Void is a Mirror – Odessa Episode”. The land art project is currently suspended as a consequence of the pandemic. Odessa, 26.10.19 I already spoke about the end of the world. Eight years ago. It is a feeling that permeates me. To …
Sandra Erbacher & Eddie VillanuevaCovid 19 Diary Series Mix media drawings on various papersMarch 2020 – on going 1- Sandra Erbacher – Availability of Childcare in Correlation with Mental Health during Covid192- Sandra Erbacher – Charting Anxiety3- Sandra Erbacher – Charting Depression4- Sandra Erbacher – Level of Fatigue5- Eddie Villanueva – Sleep Consistency During Quarantine6- …
“I came across a note, the ripped edge of a yellow legal pad, tucked into the page of a novel. It read, “14,58,3” in one corner, and “observation – observatio – Latin – a way of orienting oneself to something else larger,” in the other. 14, the moon in the morning, or the streetlight, or …
“Recently the New York Public Library granted me access to the Rose Main Reading Room outside of normal library hours. It was in this room nearly 100 years ago that fact-checking was invented by a small team of women—who have all since been edited out of history. I imagine as the first fact-checkers developed their …
“These are photos from Acquired Taste, a project I did at Essex Market with Cuchifritos just before the pandemic. The cooking workshop was a vehicle to get strangers together and maybe have a chance to connect through making a meal. Based on a large degree of randomness, the goal was to make people spend time …
“In lockdown, I have been spending a great deal of my time examining and reading materials on the semantics of space and time, perspective and physical location in respect to the body, english spatial terms and most recently Nick Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis. In “A Simulated Reality of Sorts,” 2020, I map out the confines of …
“My quarantine was about reading, solitude, going through mental struggles, and having a relationship with my close ones. This series of still-lifes was my daily routine and an attempt to not lose a sense of time. They were made using asian household groceries and small sculptures inside my refrigerator.” Mo Kong is a multidisciplinary artist …
