Bad at Art Forum #1: Unpaid Intern

Bad at Art Forum #1: Unpaid Intern

Welcome to the Bad at Art Forum! A monthly post from your (non)local artist-cum-mad-scientist, Keeley Haftner. Every third Monday of the month until the world ends, or Bad at Sports expires on its best-before date (aka 20th anniversary) on September 4th, 2025...
Review: Institutional Garbage

Review: Institutional Garbage

It’s December. The time of year when all the ‘Best Ofs’ and just-in-time-for-Christmas reviews spill out from the internet, beckoning you to consider your engagement with the year just passed. In January of this year, I was invited to “write something” about...
Mirror Around the Corner

Mirror Around the Corner

An artist’s take on the Venice Biennale, as experienced during Venice’s highest floods in 50 years Keeley Haftner, November 22, 2019   I found myself a viewer of the Venice Biennale during this year’s epic flood. How does art premised around current political and...
THINKS: Marcela Torres

THINKS: Marcela Torres

The following THINKS to Think submission is a piece by the fabulous Marcela Torres. Enjoy! Marcela Torres, “Favored To Win”, 2017. With Chase Calloway and Jesse Meredith. Image courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Emerson Granillo.     Pleasure into Pain...
Thinks: Tim Ingold

Thinks: Tim Ingold

Fiber Metaphors Weavers Don’t Hate: An Interview with Tim Ingold   Keeley Haftner: So to begin I’d like to go way back. You’ve been the Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen since 1999, but when you first embarked on your education you began...