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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
Person with dark skin and slightly open mouth, photo cropped between their top lip and their throat.
1Allison Bolah, No Accident, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist.
Literature Visual Art
7-8-2022

Noting the Throat/La garganta, anotada

Alcibíades Elián
Person with dark skin performs duck walk on runway, with crowd and purple lighting behind them.
1Vogue Night, Walker Art Center, 2018. Photo: Bobby Rogers.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts
4-25-2022

You Can’t Have One Without Giving Side Eye to the Other: On the Entanglement of Gender and Genre

George Hoagland
Two people and shopping cart stand at the end of a long aisle of big box store with tall orange shelving.
1(Not our Costco, not 100% certain if another, or other similar big box store.) Credit: Stephen Downes, Costco. Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic CC BY-NC 2.0.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art

Costco, Jayco, Yamaha, words are cheap

Moheb Soliman
The interior of Dreamsong’s gallery, which has white walls and a flat gray floor. This image, taken from the corner of the room, shows prints hanging on two adjacent walls, and a white table in the center of the room. On top of the white table is a short black box, opened, with prints stacked inside.
1Installation view of A Feather Plucked from its Bird, 2022. Photo courtesy Dreamsong.
Literature Visual Art
2-22-2022

Ache with Many

Drew Maude-Griffin
Collage with fragment of green netting, wilted petals, green metallic candy wrapper, and strip reading: Inviting... enduring...
1Nailah Taman, Not Collaging #1, 2022.
Literature
2-16-2022

What I’m Doing When I’m Not Writing

Aegor Ray
A photo portrait of Trista laying on her side on a chaise lounge, lit with red lighting.
1Trista Marie, untitled, November 2020. Photo: Nanne Sorvold.
Literature Visual Art
12-22-2021

Interdependence

Trista Marie McGovern
Colorized portrait of Ayesha Adu
Literature Moving Image
11-1-2021

Bidding Adieu to Ayesha Adu

Atlas O Phoenix
Three selfies of Black/Biracial transmasculine nonbinary person: looking left, looking at the camera, and looking right.
1Atlas O Phoenix, Discovery, Self Portrait, 2021.
Literature Moving Image

The Inspiration and the Eulogy of Love

Atlas O Phoenix
Green tent pitched on small island in muddy riverbed, with brown leafless trees.
1One of the tents pitched in the Mississippi River bottoms during Stop Line 3 actions, spring 2021. Photo: Shanai Matteson.
Literature Visual Art
10-26-2021

River Bed

Shanai Matteson
Dyed textile with blue sky, green prairie, red sun, and red strip on horizon in mottled pattern.
1Gwen Westerman, Wildfires Up North; 2015. Photo courtesy the artist.
Literature Visual Art
10-15-2021

Creating a Space for Dreams

Gwen Westerman
Line drawing of beaker reading "HARM" funneling into test tube labeled "HELP."
1Grant Kirkpatrick, Harmful Chemistry, 2021.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
10-11-2021

The Ticking Crocodile: Performative Accountability in Cultural Institutions

David Valentine
Drawing of figure with white dress and long black hair holding onto a small train. Seven round signs float in yellow and gray background.
1Peng Wu, In Between Sleep and Wake, 2021.
Literature
10-6-2021

Meditation on Sleep

Yuko Taniguchi

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