TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/1-9/7)
1. Institutional Garbage September 1, 2016, 7-9PM Participating Artists Include: Alberto Aguilar, Brit Barton, Mara Baker, Kevin Blake, Zippora Elders, Rami George, David Hall, Josh Rios and Anthony Romero, Michal Samana, Naqeeb Stevens, Tina Tahir, Anna Martine...Episode 559 Sam Hertz
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_559_Sam_Hertz.mp3 download Sound and Performance Artist Sam Hertz checks in on the Anthropocene and the Aerocene with Caroline Picard! They carve away at our conceptions around Knowledge Production, Shamanism and...Plant Humans of the Future: An Interview with Saya Woolfalk
Saya Woolfalk is a New York-based artist who, for the last decade, has been building an elaborate and multi-dimensional narrative about alternate cultures. Woolfalk’s physical installations document the artifacts of these cultures—specifically the No Placeans (plant...Reading with My Whole Body: An Interview with Essi Kausalainen
I’ve realized that when looking at a plant body I’m always looking at the whole ecosystem, the surroundings, the weather, the climate—all of that is inseparable from the plant body. The same goes with us. The “I” making the work is actually the world around me: it is the plants I live with, the plants I eat and drink that build my body and its bacterial terrain, the people around me, the books I read, the society and its values…I am just a compost trying to create fertile ground out of this all.