Selina Trepp—visual musician, collage animist, radical recycler—talks time, process, performance, material and more on the occasion of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Our dynamic and inspired conversation zooms through the multiplicities of ways Selina’s playful practice breaks open the forms and formats she’s drawn to (and drawing on). Once again we’re joined by curator Annie Morse and the ambient sounds of meaning being made and publics being formed.
Interventions into museum collections, a still-evolving staple of exhibition schedules, often allow close readings of acquisition narratives while they let artists stretch the domain of the curatorial. Amanda McCavour’s exhibition, “Suspended Landscapes” at the...
asmaa al-issa (b. Baghdad, Iraq) immigrated to Mohkínstsis/Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her family in 2001. Her interdisciplinary practice engages her lived experiences with the land, materials, and people around her. She is continually building knowledge of recipes, traditions, philosophies, theories, and histories of the Middle East while developing her practice as an artist and educator. asmaa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of Calgary (2013) and a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University (2017).
Our wide ranging conversation seeks the roots of her practice and voice, post-colonialist futures, the nature of interdisciplinarity, and what we think when we speak of home.
1. Victoria Martinez: Daughter of Wands September 3, 6-9PM Produce Model:1918 S Canalport Ave 2. Yuge Zhou: Moon Drawings September 3, 3-6PM Chinese American Museum of Chicago: 238 W 23rd St 3. Ellen Berkenblit: Umberville September 1-October 8, 2022...
