by Caroline Picard | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
On Roomba list serves, you find people talking about just wanting to watch their first Roomba clean, like proud mamas and papas. Even pets want to play with Roombas. They’re very endearing devices. Yet these transpecies relationships are complicated because we’re mirroring how we interact with humans. We work for them and they work for us, and part of that work involves making ourselves care–for–able, and learning to expect certain kinds of care in return.
by Visualist Chicago | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
1. Spectralina Performance August 18, 2016, 6-8PM Work by: Selina Trepp and Dan Bitney DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 2. Start Together August 19, 2016, 6-9PM Work by: Jaclyn Jacunski Chicago Artists Coalition: 217 N. Carpenter St,...
by Caroline Picard | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog
Thinking about taxidermy, the ultimate “animal-made object” has substantially shaped my ideas on agency and passivity in contemporary art involving the non-human; whilst Jane Bennett’s and Graham Harman’s work have substantially expanded my views on objects and agency. I have also been thinking a lot about surfaces in contemporary art. Taxidermy is all surface—a practical and metaphorical totalization of animality whilst plants are all-surface in a more, “helpless” but nonetheless related way.
by Caroline Picard | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog
What does it mean to be modern? And can we possibly find a different kind of modernity by narrating our current issues and past events differently? Might that change the future as well? And of whom? How can we try to extend one’s imagination beyond our established conventions? The historiography of language—of one of the most fundamental commons—and of artistic practice that works with the human tool of imagination— might have some answers to the queries.
by Caroline Picard | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog
I feel like the poet’s role, or poetry’s role, anyway is to disequilibriate, that is to say, to throw everything out of balance with disharmonious attachments. I think poetry is really good at that. Disequilibriation might be the beginning of liberation.
