This week’s reading: Karen Barad’s “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter” Excerpt: “The point is not merely that there are important material factors in addition to discursive ones; rather, the issue is the conjoined material-discursive…
Artist’s workflows – making, mediating and managing – are tightly embraided and cannot be observed in isolation from each other. This is complicated by the fact that each strand of the braid is embedded in a separate discourse. That impacts…
Here are the recent finds from the 1960’s. Properly framed now, in the studio. And a few current studio moments: Thanks to Rachel Harper for creating this show: https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/chicagoartdepartment/albums/72157662361269943/ Update: “Thought catchers – an artist talk” is now a published…
Lou Mallozzi Lou and I met in my office at SAIC, a late afternoon in December of 2015, on a day when we both taught. We have known each other for many years, I’ve attended presentations he gave about his…
Part I July 18, 2014, I talked with Deborah Boardman, who had come to the Chicago Cultural Center so I could ask her about how she works, as I’ve been asking other artists since summer 2008. We sat at a…
Up so far: My talk on August 23rd, 2014 and the 3 sound responses to diagrams, by Andrea Sodomka, Maria Gstaettner and Judith Leemann: https://vimeo.com/channels/821565
August 23rd, 2014, 10:30 – 12:00, Michigan Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center All works in the exhibition “Enter the Matrix” are printed on vitreous enamel – Whiteboards. For Adelheid Mers’ annotated talk, the artist uses all surfaces to write and draw.…
The South East Chicago Commission (SECC) is a community-based organization, focused on enhancing the quality of life in five neighborhoods through a number of programs and initiatives. The SECC is funded by the University of Chicago, the City of Chicago,…
Performative Diagrammatics 