The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design
The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design is a publication on contemporary craft politics edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch. Bloomsbury Press, 2020. Order from Bloomsbury Press Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the
The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design
The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design is a publication on contemporary craft politics edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch. Bloomsbury Press, 2020. Order from Bloomsbury Press Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the
The HIV Howler Issue 5: TIME-MONEY
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper focusing on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working
The HIV Howler Issue 5: TIME-MONEY
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper focusing on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working
COMEDOWN / Sunrise Ceremony
COMEDOWN – Sunrise Ceremony The Sunrise Ceremony and Sonic Event was presented by the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven. The performance begins at 6:03 am to break with chrononormative displays of public culture. This period of the day directly preceding the
COMEDOWN / Sunrise Ceremony
COMEDOWN – Sunrise Ceremony The Sunrise Ceremony and Sonic Event was presented by the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven. The performance begins at 6:03 am to break with chrononormative displays of public culture. This period of the day directly preceding the
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper focusing on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper focusing on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working
Craft and the Polymorphous Perverse
“Craft and the Polymorphous Perverse” This essay was commissioned for the catalogue of “Making Otherwise,” a touring exhibition of contemporary craft works by six artists, Richard Boulet, Marc Courtemanche, Ursula Johnson, Sarah Maloney, Paul Mathieu and Janet Morton. The exhibition’s
Craft and the Polymorphous Perverse
“Craft and the Polymorphous Perverse” This essay was commissioned for the catalogue of “Making Otherwise,” a touring exhibition of contemporary craft works by six artists, Richard Boulet, Marc Courtemanche, Ursula Johnson, Sarah Maloney, Paul Mathieu and Janet Morton. The exhibition’s
Handbook: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education
HANDBOOK is a collaborative intervention in art and design pedagogy. It offers faculty a radical rethink on how to work with queer and transgender students on their path to becoming artists and designers – from the first day of school
Handbook: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education
HANDBOOK is a collaborative intervention in art and design pedagogy. It offers faculty a radical rethink on how to work with queer and transgender students on their path to becoming artists and designers – from the first day of school
Two Fold: twice as great or as numerous
Two fold is a wall-mounted accordion book that consists of 84 cut-paper panels. A collaboration between Black and Thea Yabut, Two fold begins with their ongoing “mirror drawing” studio game, and their practice of using scissors and knives as a drawing tool. Working
Two Fold: twice as great or as numerous
Two fold is a wall-mounted accordion book that consists of 84 cut-paper panels. A collaboration between Black and Thea Yabut, Two fold begins with their ongoing “mirror drawing” studio game, and their practice of using scissors and knives as a drawing tool. Working
Mirror Drawing
Singularity is always already plural; individuals are at once unique in their differences and relational to others. Anthea Black and Thea Yabut create drawings, book works, prints, photographs, and composite films simultaneously together and individually, each mimicking the other’s movements
Mirror Drawing
Singularity is always already plural; individuals are at once unique in their differences and relational to others. Anthea Black and Thea Yabut create drawings, book works, prints, photographs, and composite films simultaneously together and individually, each mimicking the other’s movements
Coupé à la mains
Coupé à la mains Blindfold a poet. Put her poems and a pair of scissors in her hands. Destroy, she said. Coupé à la mains uses a surrealist process of chance,”blind cutting,” to cut and reconfigure imagery and fragments of poems by Virginia Konchan: The Hand
Coupé à la mains
Coupé à la mains Blindfold a poet. Put her poems and a pair of scissors in her hands. Destroy, she said. Coupé à la mains uses a surrealist process of chance,”blind cutting,” to cut and reconfigure imagery and fragments of poems by Virginia Konchan: The Hand
LIVE FROM PATTERN HUT
LIVE FROM PATTERN HUT An accordion bookwork that contains reproductions of six film stills from Black and Yabut’s work Maman and Me. On the reverse, a critical text by Jen Kennedy entitled “Fugitive Patterns,” is paired with images from the performative
LIVE FROM PATTERN HUT
LIVE FROM PATTERN HUT An accordion bookwork that contains reproductions of six film stills from Black and Yabut’s work Maman and Me. On the reverse, a critical text by Jen Kennedy entitled “Fugitive Patterns,” is paired with images from the performative
Maman and me
Maman and me combines imagery of hair, brushing, braiding, spiders, knives, scissors, and cut paper derived from my interest in the work of Louise Bourgeois and my collaboration with Thea Yabut. The work utilizes both “blind cutting” and cameraless animation:
Maman and me
Maman and me combines imagery of hair, brushing, braiding, spiders, knives, scissors, and cut paper derived from my interest in the work of Louise Bourgeois and my collaboration with Thea Yabut. The work utilizes both “blind cutting” and cameraless animation:
NO PLACE: Queer Geographies on Screen
NO PLACE: Queer Geographies on Screen is a touring exhibition program that features the work of Canadian and international queer and trans-identified artists who examine ways in which queer notions of place, mapping, and geography are realized on screen. The works
NO PLACE: Queer Geographies on Screen
NO PLACE: Queer Geographies on Screen is a touring exhibition program that features the work of Canadian and international queer and trans-identified artists who examine ways in which queer notions of place, mapping, and geography are realized on screen. The works
PLEASURE CRAFT
Curated by Anthea Black, this screening explores appearances of craft and hand making in film and video from the 1960s to the present, where craft is a temporal process rather than a fixed object. Featuring works by Charles and Ray
PLEASURE CRAFT
Curated by Anthea Black, this screening explores appearances of craft and hand making in film and video from the 1960s to the present, where craft is a temporal process rather than a fixed object. Featuring works by Charles and Ray
Tea Time Folio: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV
The Tea Time Folio is a series of limited edition prints by Anthea Black, Jessica MacCormack, and Johnny Nawrajac produced for Jessica Whitbread’s book Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV. Produced by Anthea Black and Jessica
Tea Time Folio: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV
The Tea Time Folio is a series of limited edition prints by Anthea Black, Jessica MacCormack, and Johnny Nawrajac produced for Jessica Whitbread’s book Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV. Produced by Anthea Black and Jessica
DO LESS WITH LESS / DO MORE WITH MORE
Ladies’ Invitational Deadbeat Society’s limited edition DO LESS WITH LESS / DO MORE WITH MORE cross stitch pattern poster. The slogan on the original posters was drawn from Artivistic’s Promiscuous Infrastructures project at Centre des arts actuels Skol in Montréal, Québec
DO LESS WITH LESS / DO MORE WITH MORE
Ladies’ Invitational Deadbeat Society’s limited edition DO LESS WITH LESS / DO MORE WITH MORE cross stitch pattern poster. The slogan on the original posters was drawn from Artivistic’s Promiscuous Infrastructures project at Centre des arts actuels Skol in Montréal, Québec
Performing Austerity: Artists, Work, and Economic Speculation
The relationship between arts economies and austerity is a tumultuous one. We need only recall Stephen Harper’s sneering 2008 categorization of artists as rich complainers as evidence of the persistent myths that are used to devalue artistic work as “non-essential”
Performing Austerity: Artists, Work, and Economic Speculation
The relationship between arts economies and austerity is a tumultuous one. We need only recall Stephen Harper’s sneering 2008 categorization of artists as rich complainers as evidence of the persistent myths that are used to devalue artistic work as “non-essential”
TAG TEAM at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
TAG TEAM: Gay Premises Artists and Art Workers respond to Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives, 1973-1983 Curated by Erin Silver Artists: Anthea Black, Sharlene Bamboat and Dina Georgis, Eugenio Salas, and Robert Waters Closing event August 28,
TAG TEAM at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
TAG TEAM: Gay Premises Artists and Art Workers respond to Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives, 1973-1983 Curated by Erin Silver Artists: Anthea Black, Sharlene Bamboat and Dina Georgis, Eugenio Salas, and Robert Waters Closing event August 28,
The Ten Cognitive Distortions
The Ten Cognitive Distortions is a photocopied poster edition derived from a handout given to me by my therapist Maria. The original appears to have been photocopied (and possibly even faxed) several times before I received it. I recognize that most
The Ten Cognitive Distortions
The Ten Cognitive Distortions is a photocopied poster edition derived from a handout given to me by my therapist Maria. The original appears to have been photocopied (and possibly even faxed) several times before I received it. I recognize that most
Craft Hard Die Free in Extra/ordinary and The Craft Reader
“In Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism, Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch provide a brief international survey of activities which seek to deploy craft for the purposes of protest. Knitting, and other textile arts traditionally associated with
Craft Hard Die Free in Extra/ordinary and The Craft Reader
“In Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism, Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch provide a brief international survey of activities which seek to deploy craft for the purposes of protest. Knitting, and other textile arts traditionally associated with
GLITTER BIKE RIDE
Our dream for a world where transmutation of the ephemeral and impermanent self is possible. Beyond space and time. Returning to the sites of tragedy, an homage to those we’ve lost. Ghosts who haunt the living with a message of
GLITTER BIKE RIDE
Our dream for a world where transmutation of the ephemeral and impermanent self is possible. Beyond space and time. Returning to the sites of tragedy, an homage to those we’ve lost. Ghosts who haunt the living with a message of
LADIES INVITATIONAL DEADBEAT SOCIETY
The Ladies’ Invitational Deadbeat Society (LIDS) was founded in 2006 as a closely-knit affiliation of then-unemployed cultural workers, not working, but still bustin’ ass within Alberta artist-run culture. Their activities made visible and politicized women’s roles in the arts economy
LADIES INVITATIONAL DEADBEAT SOCIETY
The Ladies’ Invitational Deadbeat Society (LIDS) was founded in 2006 as a closely-knit affiliation of then-unemployed cultural workers, not working, but still bustin’ ass within Alberta artist-run culture. Their activities made visible and politicized women’s roles in the arts economy
SUPER STRING
SUPER STRING taps into the collective craft unconscious – the sound of thousands of knitting needles clicking in unison – and the prolific ways in which artists and activists make textiles to connect with each other, recycle, share skills, reclaim
SUPER STRING
SUPER STRING taps into the collective craft unconscious – the sound of thousands of knitting needles clicking in unison – and the prolific ways in which artists and activists make textiles to connect with each other, recycle, share skills, reclaim
looking for love in all the wrong places
looking for love in all the wrong places is an artist-curatorial project that commissions and disseminates limited edition silkscreen posters and multiples by queer artists for public spaces. When it began in 2006, the project was a call for collaboration and
looking for love in all the wrong places
looking for love in all the wrong places is an artist-curatorial project that commissions and disseminates limited edition silkscreen posters and multiples by queer artists for public spaces. When it began in 2006, the project was a call for collaboration and
Anthea Black 