Kevin Killian and JoAnn Low, 2018. Photo: alex cruse. It took me years to find JoAnn Low, but it was worth the wait. Writing the life of Jack Spicer, I heard over and over from those who knew him and loved him — and some who disliked him — references to a “Joanne.” Because Spicer [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve be doing audio interviews with mothers who are artists, asking them for their definition of love, and how that definition is exemplified in their relationships with their family, as well as how they show that love through their work and in the community. This is the fourth and final [...]
Abbas Kiarostami, Sleepers, 2001 I used to study books on lucid dreaming. Repeat I am aware that I am dreaming before dozing off; breathe; inspect your limbs for distortion as a tell you’re slumbering. Mastering the delicate balance between intellect and emotion, an elusive tug of war, was a rigorous feat of cognition. To my [...]
Roscoe Mitchell performing at the Moers Festival in Moers, Germany, 2009. Photo: Michael Hoefner. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. It would be hard to overstate the importance of Roscoe Mitchell’s influence on my generation of musicians — those of us who were just a little too young to have experienced John Coltrane in [...]
My mother, the year she was left in Chiapas. Earlier this year, in the spring, I accompanied my mother to Tijuana. She had announced to my sister and I that what she wanted for Mother’s Day was to go to the border and distribute care packages to members of the caravan. My sister was unable [...]
Constance Lewallen and Mac McGinnes in Mac’s San Francisco apartment. Photo: Gordon Faylor. I met Mac McGinnes soon after I (and he) moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s. At the time he was working at the Phillipe Bonnafont Gallery. We immediately realized we had a lot in common and thus began our friendship. [...]
(2018 / 5 min. 20 sec.) This piece could never adequately capture the complexities of the separate-but-related projects of China’s intensified surveillance systems and its embryonic social credit system, but that was never really the goal. Guanxi, 350-950 investigates the phenomenological experience of the surveilled subject — particularly when surveillance and social credit become yoked [...]
Graphic: Omar Mohammad. Our Rethink: Web workshop included a wealth of artists and creative thinkers, and yielded too many threads for this series to address all of them. In the interest of pointing in new directions — which was at the heart of the initiative — below are sketches of some other concepts and questions [...]