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Category: Literature

Graphic illustration in yellow, green, blue, pink, and red, reading: Material for Metaphorization.
1Skyler Nowinski, Material for Metaphorization, 2023.

Material for Metaphorization

Naomi Crocker

How can the expansive potential of language illuminate interdisciplinary artistic forms?

Tags: disciplinefilminterdisciplinarylanguagemultidisciplinarytranslation
Long, rough paper with solid dark markings hung horizontally on white wall.
1Jason Moran, Run 6, 2016. Collection Walker Art Center.

don’t say spirit, say ghost

Chaun Webster

A micro-essay on how language can elude capture—sound as a door, opening to phantom geographies

Tags: dreamsghostlanguagemusicvoice
Three people stand in front of fence, eyes closed, noses upturned to smell
1Janet Lobberecht, Miranda Trimmier and Gudrun Lock. Photo: Marc Scamp.
Literature Performing Arts
2-26-2025

Report of the Smelling Committee

Elisabeth Workman
A field of tall plants, or weeds, with red and orange train cars in the distance
1
Literature
12-6-2024

Shoreham Yards: Notes on the Periphery

Elisabeth Workman
Photo from the back of a movie theater with ornate chandeliers, many people in seats and Arabic writing against a landscape on the screen.
1Solidarity Evening for Palestine at the Heights Theater. Courtesy Mizna. Photo: Makeen Osman.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
9-24-2024

Practicing Solidarity, Living Values: A Conversation with Mizna

Aegor Ray
1Sunset in Masafer Yatta overlooking the town of Yatta. In the foreground is a truck, owned by Palestinian residents, that was set on fire by Israeli settlers, 2024. Photo: Josina Manu Maltzman.
Literature
8-6-2024

We Are All Complicit in Craft: A Conversation with Josina Manu Maltzman

Aegor Ray
Person with glasses staring up at camera, writing equations on whiteboard in background
1Billy Mullaney, SEMESTER, 2015. Photo: Jane Rennick
Literature Performing Arts
3-6-2024

“Random” Thoughts

Billy Mullaney
Cast concrete face with closed eyes and seashell mounted on concrete shard
1Alexa Horochowski, La Sirena, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Dreamsong.
Literature Visual Art
2-16-2024

Reliquarium: On Alexa Horochowski’s Under the Sea-Wind

Elisabeth Workman
Graffiti lettering reads: Keep our streets dirty.
1Linnea Dramdahl, Keep our Streets Dirty, 2023. Sticker available at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in 2024.
Literature Moving Image Visual Art
1-25-2024

An Informal Investigation

Jo Nassif, Hades Nyasani
TV on white wall showing film of ambiguous shapes in water
1Rindon Johnson, May the moon meet us apart, may the sun meet us together, 2021. Courtesy the artist.
Literature Moving Image Visual Art
1-16-2024

Glitching the Glass Wall: Formidable Static

Juleana Enright
Aerial photograph of train yard with adjacent neighborhoods
1Shoreham Yards aerial view. Part of Shoreham Repository. Courtesy the artist.
Literature Moving Image Visual Art
12-20-2023

Shoreham Repository: A Feralegium

Elisabeth Workman
Two silhouettes against blue brush strokes, one dark and one light.
1Alison Bergblom Johnson, Two, 2019.
Literature Visual Art
12-12-2023

Long Live the Disabled Artist, Long Live the Disabled Artist(s)

Alison Bergblom Johnson
1Artists in the gallery during a Conversation Lab meeting, published with article by Juleana Enright. Courtesy Public Functionary. Photo: Tricia Heuring.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
11-15-2023

Does Art Need Words? Arts Writers on Arts Writing

Christina Schmid, Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara, Juleana Enright
1Courtesy María José Castillo.
Design Literature Visual Art
11-7-2023

An Idea of a Cow

María José Castillo

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