Artists feel stuck: under-recognized for all the activities they are actually doing and over-commodified as the great force behind “hipsterism.” Resistance seems futile.
New World Embassy: Rojava
The Work of the Institution in an Age of Professionalization
Slow Criticism: Art in the Age of Post-Judgement
Movement Building for Beginners
Belaboring the Fringe: in lieu of an Artist Statement
Sustainability is not Solidarity: Superscript & the Economies of Art Writing
Muse as Critic, Returning the Gaze from the Pedestal
No one cares about art criticism: Advocating for an embodiment of the avant garde as an alternative to capitalism
Essays
Articles
Architectural Historian Michael Allen addresses the intersections of community art and “placemaking” and the complications these cause when played out on our cities.
Liz Magic Laser’s Diverseworks commission “Tell Me What You Want to Hear” began by enlisting professional empathy conjurers to cull, perform, and refine their methods of influencing public opinion.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about where art is made. In contrast to exploring reasons creatives might remain in Art Centers, like New York and Los Angeles, I would instead like to take a closer look at what makes people stay ‘on the outside.’
Here we present the final essay in our series reports from the “Outer Regions: Roundtables and Public Panel Discussion.” On the final day, participants began to diagram the results of their discussions presented here with related audio and text.
Here is third in our series reports from the “Outer Regions: Roundtables and Public Panel Discussion.” This audio essay focuses on the third roundtable, “Altered Institutions,” which included Nikki Hamblin, founder of PROJEXx Studio and Gallery in Johnson City, TN.
The second in our series reports from the “Outer Regions” symposium, a diagram introduced by Adelheid Mers (created in response to Vilém Flusser’s essay “Exile and Creativity”) that proved an invaluable tool for discussion.
“Outer Regions: Roundtables and Public Panel Discussion,” a two-day event held at East Tennessee State University with funding support from the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts, was organized by Vanessa Mayoraz and Andrew Scott Ross to explore the ramifications of artistic practice outside of major metropolitan art centers.