Welcome to (Month 11: Volume 2), the new exclusive collection for paid subscribers! Thank you again for supporting this project, I really appreciate it!
(Month 11: Volume 2) contains tons of contemporary art, music, fashion, videos, and more stuff that resists categorization!
Don’t forget this newsletter will exceed most email limits, so you’ll need to click through to “view entire message” at the bottom of this email or click over to the website to enjoy the whole thing.
And remember, every entry comes with a link so you can explore more and more.
Now then, without further ado…
Alys Tomlinson is a British photographer
Genevieve Cohn “grew up in rural Vermont and received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University.”
Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Michael Sawyer: "On Fugitive Aesthetics"
“In her paintings and prints of contorted female figures, Jillian Evelyn explores the everyday anxieties and societal expectations that define the female experience.”
In one chrono-stria, there is the creamware deluge, the advent of the NORTHFIELD occultURE FACILITY, and the shaky opposition to the NoUF by dregs of TWS-4096 warewolf soldiers. But in a divergent temporal zone, in some broken interstice, there wasn’t a Silicon Valley-prompted ooze epidemic; the NoUF never materialized to mince mammals into code slurry while technicians sic their tendriled headgear on subjects’ scalps.
— st1mulus z3r0
1 3 0
[a novel of gnawing bicosmic angst]
Will Bernardara Jr.
“New York-based photographer” Caroline Tompkins
The recent emergence of what has come to be called the video essay or the videographic essay or the audiovisual essay represents a new cinematic avant-garde. It offers implicit and explicit critiques of both commercial media and the logocentric literature of academic cinema and media scholarship.
What are the historical roots of the video essay as critique?
— “Is the Video Essay a New Avant-Garde?” by Scott MacDonald, via The Edge
Tony Matelli “is an American sculptor perhaps best known for his work Sleepwalker. Born in Chicago, Matelli received his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 1993 and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1995. He lives and works in New York City.”
Photographer Hayley Eichenbaum “has created a series of images documenting the roadside architecture of America's Route 66 that takes its cues from the often uncanny appearance of film stills.”
Runway Film - TU GH'EH NAH // Water is Life
The IFWTO 2020 opening night runway film program features fashion, craft and textiles for protest and sovereignty. Featuring streetwear, bright colours, messages of protection and wellness and urban culture.This program, titled “TU GH’EH NAH (Water is Life)” includes Section 35, Skawennati, Indi City, Miss Chief Rocka, Ayimach ᐊᔨᒪ and Mobilize Waskawewin.
“Artist, curator, and dealer Margaret Lee is prolific among interconnected endeavors; she creates her own work, collaborates with other artists, and runs a New York City gallery space.”
The OGs of Indigenous Fashion Panel Conversation
As part of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ (MoCNA) ongoing programming for Art of Indigenous Fashion, we are presenting “The OGs of Indigenous Fashion,” a conversation about the progressive fashion scene surrounding the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe from the 1980s to the present. This event will be hosted by SITE Santa Fe.
Moderated by MoCNA guest curator and IAIA Assistant Professor of Art History Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation), a panel featuring Project Runway finalist Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) ’89, photorealistic beadwork phenom Marcus Amerman (Choctaw) ’84, and self-taught couturier Orlando Dugi (Diné) will discuss the early days of their careers. From traveling fashion shows to trendy nights at Heat: A Freak Boutique (one of the first Indigenous fashion boutiques on the Santa Fe Plaza) to visions for a fashionable future, these style icons have entertaining and thought-provoking stories of sartorial revolution, innovation, and experimentation to share.
Heidi Hahn “(b. 1982, lives and works in Brooklyn) brings a thoughtful and refreshing perspective to the medium of painting.”
Jane Wilson and Louise Wilson RA Elect are “British artists who work together as a sibling duo. Jane and Louise Wilson's art work is based in video, film and photography.”
Ryan Wilde (b. 1980) “is a New York City based visual artist whose practice extends from her career in millinery.”
Jorie Graham On Description
“Working at the intersection of art installation and performance, Claude Wampler engages and experiments with liveness and the art object, concealment and revelation, the performance of the spectator, and the productivity of failure.”
Annette Messager “is a French visual artist.”
Poetry and the Metaphysical "I": A Lecture by Dorothea Lasky | Woodberry Poetry Room
Henrike Naumann “is a German installation artist.”
“I'm either a Psychopath in a Sheep Clothing, an Intern Priest At The St. Marks Temple, a Temporary Assistant to the Visual Artist, or You”
By Mina Nishimura
Frederick John Eversley “is an American sculptor who lives in Venice Beach, California and Soho, New York. He creates sculptures from cast resin and other materials, "a medium that makes possible many different effects, ranging from opacity to complete transparency.”
Poetry Craft Capsule: Roger Reeves
Arcmanoro Niles “is an American visual artist working in painting. Niles is known for his life-sized portraits in gem-toned hues that focus on African-American contemporary narratives, often depicting individuals in states of psychological negotiation.”
A river: a ribbonlike body of water moving downward by force, and rustling. One kind of lightning comes up out of the charged earth like a river. A river’s headwater or source can be another river, meltwater, or an underground spring, which is the kind of river I prefer. There are, in extreme conditions, aerial rivers, liquid analogies between pathways of water flow in the atmosphere, and on earth. A river begins and arrives.
— “A River” by Lisa Robertson, via Mousse Magazine
Loie Hollowell “is an American painter. She was born and raised in Northern California. She currently lives and works in New York City. ”
Inside the Margiela After Party Fashion Show - Margiela Spring 2005
Rasheed Araeen “is a Karachi born, London-based conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, writer, and curator.”
Jacob Todd Broussard “(b. 1992) is an artist based in Buffalo, NY. He earned his MFA in Painting from Yale University School of Art in 2019 and his BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2014.”
We begin this story with the Alexander, a pre-prohibition cocktail made from gin, creme de cacao, and cream. The Alexander belongs to a class of three-ingredient cocktails whose chief characteristic is that its parts are blended in equal amounts. Unlike say an Old-Fashioned (in which the bitters play the role of seasoning), or a Manhattan (in which the vermouth is handmaiden to the whiskey), cocktails in this class are composed of three ingredients that are balanced in equal proportions, producing a triptych, which, like the Holy Trinity, is both equal to and grander than the sum of its parts.
— “Black Diamond: A Retrospective” by Seph Murtagh, via Socrates on the Beach
Barbara Chase-Riboud “(born June 26, 1939) is an American visual artist and sculptor, bestselling novelist, and award-winning poet.”
Contemporary artist Gregory Rick says, “I see my work as History Painting promoting the obscure, the forgotten, and the commonly known. My life has been full of tribulations; I look at them as initiations. For every hardship I have endured, my art has grown with me.”