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Category Archive: Essays

Walking Portland: A Reflection on “ecologies of the local”

A view of a bend in the Presumpscot River just after dawn. Sunlight is just beginning to light up the trees that frame the rocky riverbanks, and there is a layer of white mist that sits on top of the dark water, which reflects the stones along the bank, the trees, and some sky above.
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Julie Poitras Santos’ PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS: ecologies of the local offered artist-led walks for the public to get closer to the ecologies of which they are a part. Elyse Grams reflects on six of the walks she attended and what she learned about the land, its history, and herself.

Elyse Grams November 20, 2020 Essays, Vol. 5, No. 4: Fall 2020

Presence, Performance, and Pregnancy

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Jacquelyn Gleisner, The Chart’s 2019 Critic in Residence, considers a history of performance art and its request for “noble attention” throughout her pregnancy.

Jacquelyn Gleisner October 21, 2020 Essays, Vol. 5, No. 4: Fall 2020

FutureSex/LoveSounds: an analysis of gender and artificial intelligence in film (ft. Justin Timberlake)

Justin Timberlake in "Filthy"
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Justin Timberlake’s new music video signals a kind of gender emergency: what have we learned in 90 years of science fiction?

Nyanen Deng February 13, 2018 Essays, Vol. 3, No. 1: Fall 2017/Winter 2018

Airing Out Ambivalence: on cultural care and the allure of judgment

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Ellen Tani reminds us that one’s intellectual world participates in hegemonic systems, even as we forge the tools to reckon with its entanglement.

Ellen Tani October 12, 2017 Essays, Vol. 3, No. 1: Fall 2017/Winter 2018

Diving into 2016! But first, our top posts from 2015

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A look back at our first handful of issues with our top three posts of 2015.

The Chart January 3, 2016 Essays, Interviews, Studio Visits

The New Intellectual Zeitgeist: Speculative Realism & Maine

Image courtesy of the author.
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The philosophical movement that has garnered the greatest attention and engaged most thoroughly with the present culture is speculative realism. Skye Priestley explores the components of speculative realist thought and ties them to the logos of current cultural production in Maine.

Skye Priestley December 4, 2015 Essays, Theory, Vol. 1, No. 4: December 2015/January 2016

The dream-like spirituality of Elizabeth Fox’s paintings

Elizabeth Fox, "Out the Woods", oil on panel, 11-1/2” x 24-1/8”. Image courtesy of Dowling Walsh.
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Narciso Philostratus’ review of Elizabeth Fox’s latest paintings reveals unabashed religiosity, technical sophistication, and a fresh sense of humor. by Jeffrey Ackerman

Jeffrey Ackerman November 5, 2015 Essays, Reviews, Vol. 1, No. 3: November 2015

LINES of FLIGHT: Jimmy Riordan’s translations

"In 2014, in the sorting and melting of lead type, each ingot became the physical representative, in scale and in weight, of the number of times a letter was used in the text; another form of translation, this one conveying a sort of inverse Oulippan challenge to the 'reader' of this new variant." — Julie Poitras Santos on Jimmy Riordan's work
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Julie Poitras Santos’ essay takes the act/ion of translation as its territory and looks at Jimmy Riordan’s translation of Francis Jammes “Le Roman de Lièvre” into English, as well as into various representations and reflections of the work in visual form.

Julie Poitras Santos September 29, 2015 Essays, Vol. 1, No. 2: October 2015

All Art is Outsider Art, Part 2: a quick guide to the making of an art epicenter

A step-by-step guide to constructing the new art epicenter. Above, a model of the Guggenheim New York by Little Building Co.
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Mariah Bergeron continues her serial on the New York art epicenter with a guide to using political, economic — and yes — artistic tools for taking over the (art) world.

Mariah Bergeron September 29, 2015 Essays, Theory, Vol. 1, No. 2: October 2015

What is our Common Field? notes from Hand in Glove 2015

Lunch on Day 2 of Hand in Glove: an artist meal introduced by Mona Smith, of Healing Place Collaborative, and artist Seitu Jones. Photo by the author.
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One attendee’s perspective from the Hand in Glove 2015 conference in Minneapolis: what is our common field and how do we define our practices inclusively? by Jenna Crowder

Jenna Crowder September 29, 2015 Essays, Reviews, Vol. 1, No. 2: October 2015

All Art is Outsider Art: deconstruction of the art epicenter

NY in ME: a map of New York having sex with Portland. Image by the author.
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An intro to a serial involving Maine art and: New York art world centrism, geopolitical economy, regional identity, gentrification, and the (d)evolution of the scene. by Mariah Bergeron

Mariah Bergeron August 24, 2015 Essays, Vol. 1, No. 1: September 2015

Creative Parenting: Supporting Artistic Motherhood

Lenka Clayton, "63 Objects Taken from my Son's Mouth", (2011–2012), materials as described by Clayton: "acorn, bolt, bubblegum, buttons, carbon paper, chalk, Christmas decoration, cigarette butt, coins (GBP, USD, EURO), cotton reel, holly leaf, little wooden man, sharp metal pieces, metro ticket, nuts, plastic “O”, polystyrene, rat poison (missing), seeds, slide, small rocks, specimen vial, sponge animal, sticks, teabag, wire caps, wooden block". Image courtesy lenkaclayton.com.
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As the subject of children and parenting becomes more prevalent in global contemporary discourse and in academia, is Maine’s creative economy prepared to encourage and support women artists with families? by Alana Dao

Alana Dao August 21, 2015 Essays, Vol. 1, No. 1: September 2015
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