#artwriting — Public Fediverse posts

“Unsurprisingly, this brash ignorance of an entire (sub-)domain of art triggered a cauldron of boiling responses from various critics…” – Laurence Counihan in his recent Circa text, ‘Introduction to «an_archaeology_of_the_future»‘

http://cmag.cc/20691

#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #Mastodaoine #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA

Really wild to have the piece Cecilia Danell and I have collaborated on, ‘DISTURBANCE – Heracleum Mantegazzianum’, published by Minor Literature[s]! The essay is an ode to the little-liked giant hogweed and to the writings of gardener philosopher Gilles Clément. Massive thanks to the editors.
#artwriting #botany

https://minorliteratures.com/2025/04/24/disturbance-heracleum-mantegazzianum-art-by-cecilia-danell-words-by-michaele-cutaya/

Philately meets brutality, unfortunately, in the work of FX Harsono, discussed by Prioni

#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA

Content warning: some images are upsetting
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Prioni juxtaposes the photographic approaches of René Castro and Manit Sriwanichpoom; photo-based, one looks to the (then) future, the other mocks the (then) present

#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA

Content warning: some images are upsetting
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The thesis of Amirahvelda Priyono’s new photo essay for Circa, commissioned by Brian Curtin, is straightforward: conflict is similar the world over; not denying the specifics of a given struggle, art-related visual imagery is a powerful communicator across cultures.
Content warning: some of the images are upsetting.

http://cmag.cc/20843

#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #Mastodaoine #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting

‘The blank page was the most complete the work could be…’ Landers drew from a Circa column in 1999 by Michael Cunningham; while demonstrating the power of less, he also points to one very shocking image…
https://circaartmagazine.net/issues/issue87/?pg=7
#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA

"The blank page was the most complete the work could be…" Landers drew from a Circa column in 1999 by Michael Cunningham; while demonstrating the power of less, he also points to one very shocking image…
https://circaartmagazine.net/issues/issue87/?pg=7
#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #Mastodaoine #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA

NB: Content warning re ALT text

In Julie Landers‘ ‘Information Underload’, a new text / art project for Circa commissioned by Laurence Counihan, the artist reverse-engineers the ‘bloat’ of her nostalgia as she observes Cork mutate
https://cmag.cc/20800
#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA #Cork

One of the Circa texts Nurul Kaiyisah targets, re “the lacuna of women in art histories,” is that of Anne Carlisle on Vivien Burnside back in 1984 (https://circaartmagazine.net/issues/issue17/?pg=32&dbl=y); quite robust by Anne Carlisle!
#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #Circa

Exploring women and art in the two regions, Kaiyisah draws from Circa’s huge archive – e.g., Jack Packenham on Alice Maher (https://circaartmagazine.net/issues/issue39?pg=38), Fionna Barber on Sonia Boyce (https://circaartmagazine.net/issues/issue34?pg=40), and more – but also juxtaposes global issues of then and now

#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA #mastodaoine

Fascinating new ‘letter’ by Singapore-based Nurul Kaiyisah, in which she juxtaposes a former Ireland and a current South-east Asia. Part of the ‘Travelling South, in Theory’ series commission by Brian Curtin. https://circaartmagazine.net?p=20639
#VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA

Feb 24 issue of The Fourdrinier: Ladders, boardwalks and turning circles: writer Marjorie H Morgan reviews Jo Lathwood: Making Up at The Lowry

#TheLowry #JoLathwood #TheFourdrinier #PaperGallery #AceNational #ArtWriting

https://www.thefourdrinier.com/review-feb-2024-jo-lathwood

Feb 24 issue of The Fourdrinier: Ladders, boardwalks and turning circles: writer Marjorie H Morgan reviews Jo Lathwood: Making Up at The Lowry

#TheLowry #JoLathwood #TheFourdrinier #PaperGallery #AceNational #ArtWriting

https://www.thefourdrinier.com/review-feb-2024-jo-lathwood

Part Two of the Lubaina Himid interview:

https://www.thefourdrinier.com/lubaina-himid-a-fine-toothed-comb-interview-part-two

#artwriting #LubainaHimid #AFineToothedComb #Manchester #HOME #Writer

I wrote about Sarah Sze and having a bout of Stendhal Syndrome — the semi-mythical disorder, the swooning dizziness or collapse that comes from seeing too much art.

#Art #Museum #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/sarah-szes-superabundance

Oct issue of the Fourdrinier

: 3 brand new pieces of writing – interview with Lubaina Himid / Passing Cloud a serialised journal / Immersive Watergrove review!

@MarjorieMorgan

#artwriting #LubainaHimid #AFineToothedComb #Manchester #HOME #Writer

https://www.thefourdrinier.com/lubaina-himid-a-fine-toothed-comb-interview-part-one

As I’ve experimented with making “memory objects” from works of art I’ve seen, I’ve come to feel that time and repetition are crucial ingredients. When I try again with the same object, or let more time pass, I see a melding of self and object, a third thing which is neither me nor the work.

#Art #Painting #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/shivering-memory

New post up! On spectacle, attentional gradients, and Marina Abramović. #Art #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/arena-and-spectacle

I found the center of the gallery floor, closed my eyes, and spun slowly—first clockwise, then counterclockwise, then clockwise again until my sense of orientation began to fade. I held my arm out in front of me, and opened my eyes. My hand pointed directly to a vermillion red pot with a crawl glaze. I recognized it immediately from an earlier walk through the gallery. It felt a little bit fated: did I choose it, or did it choose me?

#Art #Ceramics #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/oracle-pot

New post up! Writing this week about the amazing mid-century ceramic work of Doyle Lane, a Black, gay potter who lived and worked in LA.

If you’re in NYC, catch the show while you can.

#Art #Ceramics #Pottery #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/oracle-pot

This week’s installment of “Ways of Seeing” takes inspiration from Martin Buber’s beautiful “I and Thou,” which points towards more intimate and beautiful ways of relating to art. to each other, to the world.
#Art #Seeing #ArtWriting #Trees

https://open.substack.com/pub/uses/p/ways-of-seeing-2?r=8oef&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Falling into a painting can be like a drug.

#Art #Painting #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/double-take

This week I wrote about the artist Sarah Sze and what happens to a work of art as you remember it, and then remember it again two months later. How does the work change? How do you change?

#art #painting #memory #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/double-take

I wrote about what it means for a work of art to be remembered and Cecilia Vicuña’s beautiful Arte Precario (Precarious Art).

#Art #Memory #ArtWriting #Sculpture

https://uses.substack.com/p/memory-objects-precarios

I wrote about Pandora’s box and the silence of the art object.

#Art #Myth #Mythology #ArtWriting #AmWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/pandora-marfa

I wrote about the experience of trying to remake one of Eva Hesse’s sculptures, and whst it was like to find the remains of experiment five years later.

https://uses.substack.com/p/eva-after-eva

#Art #WomenArtists #ArtWriting #AmWriting

I wrote about the experience of trying to remake one of Eva Hesse’s sculptures, and whst it was like to find the remains of experiment five years later.

https://uses.substack.com/p/eva-after-eva

#Art #WomenArtists #ArtWriting #AmWriting

Dear Friends,

I’ve been thinking about travel, and the way in which it offers shifts of perspective.

I recently carried this question into Renee Gladman’s show of drawings at Artists Space.

— Sal

My newsletter, The Uses of Art, is free to read or subscribe.

#Art #ArtWriting #Travel #CreativeNonfiction

https://uses.substack.com/p/body-exposed-in-the-golden-wind

Dear Friends,

A few months ago I went to see the restoration of Eva Hesse’s Expanded Expansion and was surprised by my own response. As some of you know, I spent a couple of years in the apartment where Eva Hesse once lived at 134 Bowery, dreaming up possibilities for what art could be and soaking in aspects of her spirit. More of that story is in my book, if you’re curious.

—Sal

My newsletter, The Uses of Art, is free to read or subscribe. https://uses.substack.com/p/eva-expanding

#art #evahesse #artwriting

Dear Friends,

A few months ago I went to see the restoration of Eva Hesse’s Expanded Expansion and was surprised by my own response. As some of you know, I spent a couple of years in the apartment where Eva Hesse once lived at 134 Bowery, dreaming up possibilities for what art could be and soaking in aspects of her spirit. More of that story is in my book, if you’re curious.

—Sal

My newsletter, The Uses of Art, is free to read or subscribe. https://uses.substack.com/p/eva-expanding

#art #evahesse #artwriting

I'm gonna ponder this: "A blog post is a search query to find your people" from https://austinkleon.com/2023/02/19/a-blog-post-is-a-search-query-to-find-your-people/

My posts are here: https://www.lizruest.com/category/articles/

#ArtTalk #ArtWriting

A new essay on my substack, considering Felix Gonzalez-Torres
and the work of art as a Zen koan. Free to read or subscribe. https://uses.substack.com/p/public-opinion #art #artwriting #zen

A new Substack post talking about Marina Zurkow’s collaboration with James Schmitz at bitforms #Gallery in #NewYork

Dear Friends,

I’ve been thinking for some time now about how change happens, what drives social and political changes, what individuals can do (and what they can’t)...

Thanks to all who have subscribed! I appreciate you coming on this adventure with me.

Subscribe (free) or just read: https://uses.substack.com/p/zurkow

#DigitalArt #GenerativeArt #Art #ArtWriting #Climate

A new Substack post talking about Marina Zurkow’s collaboration with James Schmitz at bitforms #Gallery in #NewYork

Dear Friends,

I’ve been thinking for some time now about how change happens, what drives social and political changes, what individuals can do (and what they can’t)...

Thanks to all who have subscribed! I appreciate you coming on this adventure with me.

Subscribe (free) or just read: https://uses.substack.com/p/zurkow

#DigitalArt #GenerativeArt #Art #ArtWriting #Climate

I started a Substack today. I’m imagining it as a space to write and dream forward from my book, The Uses of Art. I’ll begin with encounters with art and spiral out into all the things I’m preoccupied with: slow time, attention, experience, how we make change, how we live in this world. I’ll make some connections between contemporary art and Zen Buddhism. There will be some experiments and some weirdness. Free to subscribe. https://uses.substack.com/p/writing-into-the-sky

#Substack #Newsletter #ArtWriting #Zen

Curious about The Uses of Art? You can read an excerpt here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Content/Site106/FilesSamples/9798986799018.pdf (Thank you to my friend Vita for demonstrating!). #ArtWriting #ArtCriticism #Art #Attention #Experience #Participation #Reading #Bookstodon

Hi all, I’m migrating instances so here’s a new #introduction. I’m an artist & writer living in New York, and I have a new book, just out, called The Uses of Art. I’m interested in all things #ArtWriting #ArtCriticism #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt and also #Writing #Poetry #ExperimentalWriting #SmallPress #Publishing and #ArtistsBooks . I also love the wild flow of information and thought. I often follow #history #architecture #design #literature #academia and #BlackMastodon accounts!

Want to read an excerpt of my new book, The Uses of Art? PDF here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Content/Site106/FilesSamples/9798986799018.pdf (& thanks, Vita, for modeling!) #ArtWriting #Memoir

https://archive.org/details/jazz-funeral-for-uncle-tom

A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom by Harmony Holiday

Topics #artwriting, #prose, #poetry, #jazzfuneral, #jazzfunerals, #jazz, #Blackhistory, #musicalhistory, #historyofmusic, #ritual, #visualculture, #antiblackness, #culturalanalysis

Championing the tenderest of homicidal tendencies, a penchant for mercy killings and redemptive rites of passage, A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom is exactly what it announces it is, a book as dynamic and eternal event wherein a feminine voice leads her band of improvisers in a procession of joyous interrogation and forgiveness. This ritural is simultaneously a purging of any cowardly impulses in the speaker and in the culture she addresses and speaks as, and a releasing or banishing of unfit archetypes, readying the landscape for fresh forces by torching the weakest links in the prevailing mythos.