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Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid
Series: Violence Within // Violence WithoutGuest Editor
Christina Schmid

“Instead of viewing violence simply as a set of discrete events,” writes Arthur Kleinman, “the perspective I am advancing seeks to unearth those entrenched processes of ordering the social world and making (or realizing) culture that themselves are forms of violence: violence that is multiple, mundane, and perhaps all the more fundamental since it is hidden or secret violence out of which images of people are shaped, experiences of groups are coerced, and agency itself is engendered.”

 

The question at the heart of the series of texts to follow considers the systemic, cultural, administrative, institutional, and relational processes so ubiquitous and cloaked in narratives of common sense that they make and mask violence as ineliminable.

 

The artists and writers in this series investigate the violence that goes unnoticed, too often tacitly accepted as just one more part of life that sucks, and speculate on what new rituals and gestures of reconciliation and self-care could look like. Can art help reconfigure the underlying structures Kleinman identifies? Can we opt out? And what are the risks inherent in such choices?

 

Christina Schmid is a writer who thinks with art and experiments with prose. She is interested in the materiality of text, haptic criticism, and the ways art generates ideas. Her essays and reviews have been published online and in print, in anthologies, journals, zines, artist books, exhibition catalogs, and digital platforms. She works at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art in Minneapolis as an Assistant Professor of Critical Practice and was just awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for Creative Prose.

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1Installation view, Kader Attia, La Mer Morte (The Dead Sea), 2015; and Yto Barrada, selections from A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project, 1998–2003, in "When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration," Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2020.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
3-11-2020

Violence Within // Violence Without

Christina Schmid
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1Image courtesy of the author.
Performing Arts
3-30-2020

A Flogging A Day

Mistress Mara
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1Lamia Abukhadra, charcoal and graphite studies on paper (2020).
Design Literature Moving Image Visual Art
4-10-2020

The Silent Chorus of Limestone: Non-human Witnesses to Intimacy, Creation, and Destruction in Settler Colonialism

Lamia Abukhadra
A Physical Study Of The Education Of Art-Pedram Badari-2015
1Pedram Baldari, A Physical Study of The Education of Art #2, film still (2015).
Design Performing Arts Visual Art
4-28-2020

“I Am Desperate”: Some Notes on Institutional Violence

Pedram Baldari
Felt Here Print on Fabric
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Literature Visual Art
5-22-2020

Red Dirt Girls

Shanai Matteson
Keagy-SanJoaquin
1San Joaquin, R. Yun (2020).
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts
7-1-2020

Eating earth, cleansing bones: Notes on a family exhumed

R. Yun
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1Amoke Kubat’s Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Chair assembly and build workshop, in partnership with the Women’s Woodshop and the Water Bar, June 2019.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-24-2020

REST: A Transatlantic Reflection

Ain Bailey, Sayge Carroll, Zenzele Isoke, Amoke Kubat, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, and Rehana Zaman
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