When reading Norman Klein’s essays and books, we become flâneurs, meandering through his personal landscape, viewing the past through critical representations of the present. His work reads like a cartographic template … More The Vatican to Vegas by Norman M. Klein
In viralnet-v4.net’s 2020 Now|Swerve podcast, Carlin and I hosted a series of conversations with artists, writers, and academics that explored what we called “the swerve of 2020” in relation to the present—the “long now” and the “post-future” … More viralnet-v4.net’s “re-installment” of Now|Swerve
Sentient Space is a breathing, living space. The installation shows how space is alive and how sentience creates a bridge between things, especially with human beings. Spatial and human energy are multi-way communications … More Sentient Space – Taehee Kim
I wonder what we will be able to see of Echelon listening posts, black sites, and not-yet-known outposts of the increasingly diffused military apparatus after it moves on… … More An Interview with Chris Bassett on NIKE: Los Angeles Defense Area
The spark that ignited the idea for “self<not>self” was lit by Hirokazu Kosaka’s visiting artist lecture at CalArts in 2022. During that lecture, Hirokazu presented a collection of calligraphy brushes whose bristles were made from his son’s hair. The lecture prompted an “ah ha” moment for me, a sudden realization … More self<not>self
The other mothers are jealous when you first tell them you are moving. They too want a house on Mars. Tired of their 60s tract houses noted for soft contemporary interiors, 8ft high ceilings, Revival, “Traditional” or Colonial exteriors, for wall-to-wall cracks and fissures—you see, these homes were surreptitiously built on clay—they too want to sell but have no buyer… … More Growth House 2
“joe” is an experiment of refusal to decode meaning.
“joe” has one row of the audience (up to 60) set-up facing a long mirror with a curtain where they see themselves when the curtain opens; four ballet barres are carried around, sometimes upside down or pointing toward the ceiling; and a video monitor showing a heart shape… … More joe
Inspired by the Shan Hai Jing, this sound piece is divided into two chapters: Mountains and Seas. Nine mythical creatures are encoded within the spectrogram, awaiting discovery. It extends Dongpu’s fascination with the notion of the unseen … More Shan Hai Jing Spectrogram
There are a couple of concepts I had been thinking about while I was creating this piece. The Japanese practice of wabi-sabi embraces the beauty of imperfections. You can also see this in the art of kintsugi … More Wabi-sabi: Cultural Bodies, Collective Social Ecologies and the Ripple Effect
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