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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
Watercolor of red anatomical heart dripping blood, surrounded by pink flowers with red root system.
1Gluklya, Who has a bigger wound?, 2021.
Literature Visual Art
9-27-2021

Letters to the Doctor

Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya)
Person with dark skin and head wrapped in blue towel sits in bed full of books, holding up a book whose cover reads "GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE."
1Amoke Kubat. Photo: Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski.
Literature Moving Image Visual Art
9-20-2021

Nesting in the Struggles of Unrest

Amoke Kubat
Fresh green and brown hazelnuts in white container.
1Photo: Tashia Hart. Courtesy the artist.
Literature
8-23-2021

Rez Dog Power!

Tashia Hart
A man and young girl standing on a bridge over a river in a forest with many trees
1The author and her father. Photo by Ezra Olson.
Literature Performing Arts
8-13-2021

The Smell of Paradox and the Disequilibrium of Loss

Kaya Lovestrand
Orange flower covered with water droplets, on a wet brown rock.
1Photo: Song-yun Kim.
Literature Moving Image Visual Art
6-29-2021

__storation of limbs

Darren Tesar
Silver boom box in front of background with vertical orange stripes.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
5-21-2021

Freestyle, Hook & Repeat: Hip Hop Innovation as a Blueprint for the Survival of Those Whom the World Would Much Rather See Dead

Tish Jones
Many zines in neon colors spread out on a surface, with a prominent drawing of a face.
1Zines at the Tretter Collection, September 2018. Image courtesy of the Tretter Collection.
Design Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
5-19-2021

Let the Record Show: Lessons for Artists in Movements

Aegor Ray
Clouds of smoke in front of a row of protesters' umbrellas, and a sign reading BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Literature Visual Art
4-19-2021

Daunte Wright: A Billion Clusters of Rebellion and Starlight

Tikkun Bambara
An intersection with a memorial for George Floyd at the center that has a large sculpture of a fist in the air. Signs and flowers are arranged in a circle around the memorial, and people can seen standing on the outside looking in
1"Memorial for George Floyd - 38th and Chicago Avenue - South Minneapolis" by Tony Webster is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Literature Visual Art
1-15-2021

Poly-fugitivity: Utopian Relations in Dystopian Structures

Tikkun Bambara
Intricate arcing paint strokes of black, tan, and grey/white swirl around the majority of the canvas, more concentrated near the bottom. The gaps between the strokes are filled with different patters, and form into faces in the lower half of the painting.
1Ta-coumba T. Aiken, The Promise from the series NO WORDS (2020). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature Performing Arts
1-11-2021

Fire Water Word Wind Song

Signe V. Harriday
A square, blond wooden box holds brown clay, compost, and shredded paper. The lid of the box is printed with the words, “We Shall Never Stop Planting”.
1Seitu Jones, We Shall Never Stop Planting (2017). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature Visual Art
1-6-2021

A Room with an Ocean View: A Meditation on Art as an Empath’s Path

David Grant
1Julie Mehretu, Babel Unleashed (2001). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature
12-23-2020

Smells of the Present Moment

Sagirah Shahid

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