Notes On Blue: Interview with Moyra Davey

Notes On Blue: Interview with Moyra Davey

In the beginning of June, Moyra Davey premiered her most recent video Notes On Blue for the Walker Art Center’s 2015 Walker Moving Image Commissions. (The video is available for public viewing for a limited time at:...
Funeral Mountain: Claire Sherman at Kavi Gupta

Funeral Mountain: Claire Sherman at Kavi Gupta

  By Kevin Blake  “Ahoy down there” I yelled,  acting out a drama I had seen before and would see forever–over and over. Again and again. I thought I was calling down to her from the top of a gigantic sand dune. From the peak of the tallest mountain. From the...
Top 5 Weekend Picks (6/5-6/7)

Top 5 Weekend Picks (6/5-6/7)

1. Rapid Pulse at multiple locations throughout Chicago A multi-site performance art festival. Performances occur at various locations. Rapid Pulse runs from Thursday 6/4 – Sunday 6/7 and Thursday 6/11 – Sunday 6/14. 2. Touchers at Aspect/Ratio Work by...
Paris on the Prairie: Part II

Paris on the Prairie: Part II

Ed. note: This is the second in a four part series hosted in collaboration with The Ladies Almanack, a feature-­length experimental narrative film written & directed by Daviel Shy, based on the novel of the same title by Djuna Barnes. The second post of the...
Turning the Titanic: Artists as Agents of Change

Turning the Titanic: Artists as Agents of Change

Well, last month’s column was a little dark. What can I say? I was in a bit of a mood. I do stand, mostly, by what I wrote then: I’m pretty sure we’re all fucked. It was pointed out to me, though, that it may only be awareness that is on the...