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Vekol Valley
Photos and text by Johnny Milano www.johnnymilano.com South of Interstate 8, outside of Maricopa, Arizona, the National Socialist Movement, the nation’s leading “White Civil Rights” group, operate a relatively unfettered bordered faction under the group name–United States Border Guard. A work in progress of the NSMs Arizona border guard unit.
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Ports and Ships
Photos and text by Andrea Frank Here are photographs of cargo vessels that are either anchored in ports or waiting in position to enter their port of call. They are loaded with unknown goods, tightly integrated into a logistical system of mind boggling complexity that answers to pressures of time and related profit. The ship’s [...]
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Jessica Borusky
The body is a location of mixed cultural messages. Through performance, video, text, and more recently, drawing, I address the polemics of such messages and question the body’s ability to surpass them. I consider ways in which specific language informs how we think about the body as a process of perfection, rather than empowerment. By [...]
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photos and text by Christopher Ford Newsprint is often hung in storefronts as businesses close or transition in and out of a space. The Dorchester studio space I have moved into has been recently remodeled from an uninhabited office space to an artist space. I clipped these newspaper advertisements and adhered them to the window [...]
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A Harvard Conference on Public Space
Photo by Jerold S. Kayden March 7, 5–8pm & March 8, 2013, 8:30–6pm In a digital age, people will reflect upon 2011 as the year in which physical public space reclaimed its lofty status in the public sphere. From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park, physical public space reminded us of its multiple ambitions and capabilities [...]
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EFA Project Space Program, Book Lovers
photo Goldin+Senneby. Looking for Headless, by fictional author K.D. Chapters 1-4, 20. Courtesy of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts The Book Lovers: A Project about Artist Novels January 25 – March 9, 2013 Curated by David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska With artworks by: Tim Etchells (UK), Tom Gidley (UK), Jill Magid (USA), Roee Rosen [...]
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Navigating the Bubble, Wendy Richmond
By Susan Hodara photo courtesy of the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Before me, an enormous young woman with creamy skin and short, dark hair presses her hands to her cheeks. Her head filling the wall, she moves a bit closer, then peers downward. Another head fills the adjacent wall: [...]
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Realism and Rancière: Arts in Occupy
Realism and Rancière: Arts in Occupy by Ruth Erickson Photo by Jeff Mitchell/ The Daily Collegian Much has been written about the relations between the arts and the Occupy Movement (or, perhaps, occupy movements) because from the very beginning art and artists have played galvanizing roles. Nato Thompson, the Chief Curator at Creative Time and [...]
Natural Speaking by J.D. Ho
I can currently neither read nor write without the assistance of machines. I am composing this essay with a speech recognition program called Dragon NaturallySpeaking. In order to use it, I wear headphones and a microphone. I stare at the computer screen as I speak. Speech recognition is now remarkably accurate, but despite Dragon’s claim [...]
We Are All Cultural Producers: Institutionalized Criticism and Agonistic Frame-works
by Lizzie Hurst In the world of cultural production, there is work: art-works and frame-works. My main interest here is the frame-work: the receiving of a work of art—an action we all are capable of doing—as it relates to commercial criticism and what might be termed an overall societal “crisis” of valuation. If value and [...]
