An alumna of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tania Bruguera is a prolific artist who has spent more than three decades making… Read More »Between the Utopic and the Real: The Arts-based Research, Theory, and Practice of Tania Bruguera
I want to carry the weight of these things. I want to be a vessel. I want my Stony Island Arts Bank to be a… Read More »Vessels and Temples: The Practice(s)-based Research of Theaster Gates
Introduction For more than 20 years, artists Mendi + Ketih Obadike have engaged in a collaborative “new media” practice, ranging from hypertext, digital, and sound… Read More »American Cipher: A Case Study in Collaborative Practice
Introduction The word archive is both a noun and a verb. Its denotations: noun a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a… Read More »Tenses of Being: Art Reclaiming and Animating the Archive
In my Canvas post for module 3, I focused on the articles related to community; in this blog post, I will focus on sound. Schafer’s… Read More »Soundscape: QUIET!ude
When I start a new art project, I often create concept/ mind maps of my research. For this module, I decided to map the artists,… Read More »Mapping Attention and Time
Ad Reinhardt created many trenchant graphical commentaries on the art world and art practice for the magazine PM. Interestingly enough, one of his long-lost drawings… Read More »How to Look at Parafiction
It has alway been challenging for me to produce on deadline. The works I am sharing for the online exhibition are very much experiments-in-progress. Visit… Read More »Online Exhibition: Vestiges
Vestige:1. Trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists2. Smallest amount (used to emphasize the absence of something)3. Part or organ of an… Read More »Works-in-progress: Vestiges
Being in conversation with another artist is a special gift, a brief glimpse into the inner world of a kindred spirit. Akwi Nji and I conversed… Read More »Artist Interview: Akwi Nji