Hilary Irons finds a major theme of empathy and connection in the work of seven graduates from Maine College of Art’s MFA program, highlighting how artists are responding to the precarity and isolation of the world and setting out to change it.
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Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo speaks with Carolina González Valencia about her new publication, How to Clean a House: A Family Album, a 20-page book of postcards that combines instructions on how to clean someone’s house as a domestic worker with milestones from the migration experience of the artist’s family.
Hilary Irons speaks with Anna Hepler and Jon Calame on their forthcoming artist book, “Trespasses,” in an interview that plays with the “danger and slippage” of both written and visual languages.
Donna Haraway shows us we need new ideas and new ways of thinking, new kinds of stories to think with, because the old ones are failing us. by Julie Poitras Santos
Terry Winters and Mark Melnicove collaborate on a suite of prints exploring the relationships between image and word in the physics of space and time. by Megan Grumbling
PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS positions Julie Poitras Santos as artist-as-curator, who has included fifteen artists and practitioners who’ll be leading walks, giving lectures, discussing readings, and presenting video works through August 14.
“You can’t push it away. You can’t go under. You have to be in it.” Anna Wolfe-Pauly and Erin Colleen Johnson talk about Wolfe-Pauly’s project for the series A Long Wait happening on Fort Gorges this summer.
Colophon: Mark Jamra’s Phoreus Cherokee
Mark Jamra’s Phoreus Cherokee — used throughout The Chart — updates and modernizes the Cherokee language in an effort to preserve it in the digital age.
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.
A found review by Narciso Philostratus looks at Kenny Cole’s show at BUOY, outlining a history of mimetic complexity in works we often don’t (or can’t) read in their totalities. by Jeffrey Ackerman
“List Projects: Lina Viste Grønli” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center moves through philosophy, art, linguistics, and poetry, connecting us to the 20th century’s greatest thinkers. by Skye Priestley
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