Posts Tagged: writing

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

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

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

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
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”

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