Rinsing the Bones
How do I begin? In the guise of the disembodied third-person voice, my words seemingly transmitted from an authority out of nowhere. Or do I choose the first person? A form that acknowledges my subjectivity, recognizing the limits of my unreliable narration while endowing what I have witnessed – my experience. On Saturday, October 21, 2023, I arrived late at the 18th Street Arts Center for Jenny Yurshansky's workshop for her exhibition "Rinsing the Bones." (…)
The Performing Body Between Disidentification and Necropolitics
A grotesque football player dressed in black, the performer (Guilherme Peters) stands at the center of a circle on the floor, drawn out of Vaseline. The helm of his full-head, black leather mask connects with a rope and pulley system to a solid cement ball in the middle of the circle. In turn, a microphone is taped on the outside of the mask against the performer's mouth. The stage is further set by strips of oxidized iron sheets, the outline of a football goal net, mounted on the wall. The performance happens in a space defined by multiple signifiers (…)
A Diamond is Forever
As time passes, and as spaces, objects, ideas, imaginations, and memories make transcontinental journeys at light speed, one is bound to think if some memories, some sections of pasts and futures, some objects, some time-lags, some undiscovered seeds, some branches with half-ripened fruits, some dust, desires, and restlessness - escape through the wormholes of these speeding tunnels.
On the Edge of Time
In the 1976 utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time, author Marge Piercy’s protagonist is presented with two alternative futures: in essence, an ecological utopia, and an apocalyptic dystopia. It’s with this concept that the Prospect Art Broadcast series, On the Edge of Time, finds its starting point.
Midas, the Naïve Environmentalist
Here is a story of a foolish man who was not paying attention and died. A man who could not eat his food because everything he touched turned to gold, so he starved to death…
Engine Running, Machinery Clanking: Committee of Six by Fred Schmidt-Arenales
“There are two settings in Committee of Six.” The voiceover narration is calm, steady, and measured. Seconds in, it is unmistakable that either stage directions or an Audio Description track is being read; the screen remains black as the voice vacillates between describing the setting and the characters yet to arrive wherein. Thus begins a whirlwind of shifts between script and reality (…)
Beyond the Limits of Representation: A Deconstructed Narrative of the War in Syria
Suppose there is something we can be sure of regarding contemporary media. In that case, it is their lack of objectivity, or rather a quasi-structural impossibility of being objective, for reasons ranging from the ideological background of the editors and the stakeholders financing media outlets to the primary fact that there is no unbiased, objective truth about events to be conveyed.
Sound Experience, Feeling Sound: Alan Nakagawa and the Point Of Turn Project
Point of Turn emerged from an invitation by Prospect Art to the sound artist Alan Nakagawa. The project is conceived to invite individuals to share their stories of themselves or someone they know leaving organized religion, shaping the results into a sound composition.