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The Empaths

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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.

Hilary Irons May 15, 2020 Reviews, Vol. 5, No. 2: Spring 2020

Postcards from Home: on Art Practice, Immigration, & Domestic Work

Carolina González Valencia, from How to Clean a House: a Family Album (2018, Orbis Editions)
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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.

Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo November 26, 2018 Interviews, Vol. 4, No. 1: Fall 2018

“These Works Will Haunt You”: a conversation on the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial

Angela Dufresne (United States, born 1969), Dean Moss, 2017, oil on canvas, 59 1/2 x 78 inches. Courtesy of the artist. © Angela Dufresne. Photo by Luc Demers.
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Mimicking the collaborative nature of the Biennial’s curation, five cultural producers in Maine gather in conversation to model the critical potential in slow looking, multiple reads, and shared dialogue.

Myron Beasley, Meghan Brady, Edwige Charlot, Justin Levesque, Veronica A. Perez May 14, 2018 Interviews, Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2018

Looking at Ourselves Through the Eyes of Others: Second Sight + privilege at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Shaun Leonardo, Champ (Sonny Liston 2), 2015, charcoal. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. © Shaun Leonardo.
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Vivian Ewing reviews Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, an exhibition that addresses what it’s like to possess qualities that so much of the world is not built to serve: blindness and blackness.

Vivian Ewing May 2, 2018 Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2018

Questioning Oracle: Yoshua Okón at Colby College Museum of Art

Yoshua Okón, video still from Oracle, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.
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Yoshua Okón’s multi-channel video blurs the lines between documentary, reality, and fiction, asking participants and viewers to engage in sociological experiments that reveal discomforting questions.

Julie Poitras Santos April 27, 2018 Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2018

Being Present in the Space of Video

Ernst Caramelle, Video Ping-Pong, 1974 Two-channel, video installation, two monitors, two media players, metal shelves, Ping Pong table, paddles, and balls, sound, 30:00 min. - Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and Generali Foundation, Vienna - Photo: Peter Harris Studio Exhibition installation view of Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (February 8–April 15, 2018)
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Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 at MIT’s List Center defines video sculpture, asking viewers to grapple with the spatial and social realities of video.

Joshua Reiman April 17, 2018 Reviews, Vol. 3, No. 2: Spring 2018

Presence + Polarization: Natalie Bookchin’s Portraits of America

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Eden Osucha speaks with filmmaker Natalie Bookchin about the phenomenon of video self-portraiture in the internet age, and what it means for resistance and identity.

Eden Osucha May 4, 2017 Interviews, Vol. 2, No. 3: Spring 2017

Mourning as a Public Act

Rosemary Laing, a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #12 & #5, C-type photograph, 30 ½ in. x 59 9/16 in., edition 2 of 8, 2009.
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The intangibility of memory, the diversity of grief, and the anguish of remembrance are laid bare for the public in “Anguish: The Misgivings of Remembrance” at the ICA at MECA. by Veronica A. Perez

Veronica Perez January 12, 2017 Reviews, Vol. 2, No. 2: Winter 2017

On Our Radar: Aimee Goguen

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Aimee Goguen is a video artist and experimental animator working and living in Los Angeles. Meg Hahn asks her five quick questions about her work.

Meg Hahn August 18, 2016 Portfolios, Vol. 1, No. 9: August 2016

Ann Hirsch, IRL

Still from Frank the Entertainer... in a Basement Affair on VH1.
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Ann Hirsch will probably defy most expectations of a feminist artist thinking about gender, social media, and the implications of shame and display.

Jenna Crowder August 11, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 9: August 2016

Institutional Invisibility: Jessica Hankey’s Women’s Club

Jessica Hankey, Women’s Club (act II), 12 min, HD video still, 2015.
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Jessica Hankey’s photographic and video work on non-profits, community centers, clubs, and museums, investigates institutions and the relationships that constitute them. Using documentary and narrative filmmaking strategies, she investigates the unstable relationship between location, image, and perception. by Erin Colleen Johnson

Erin Johnson April 1, 2016 Interviews, Vol. 1, No. 7: April/May 2016
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