“This is a glass globe that I’ve made during my 2019 UrbanGlass fellowship. Inside the glass are homegrown oyster mushrooms that, during the infusion process, became burnt, congealed, disintegrated, and inflated from the molten glass lava. I look at these globes as I imagine the ever-growing, ever-inflating universe. The WMAP satellite (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe), …
Wang Tuo, Obsessions (Video Still), 2019 As we confronted the immense upheaval caused by the pandemic—challenges to our concept of borders, disruption of civic life, failure of leadership, devastation of our truly vulnerable communities, confrontation of our visible and invisible systems—we turned to our community of alumni with a simple request: what might be the …
TJ Shin explores the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation, echoing the history of colonialism. Shin is interested in the history of conquest and the literal digestion of materials – smells, microbes, and food – as a system of relations that emerges from a complicated history of entanglement. …
Alison Kuo, Bone Bath (2017). Performance documentation. Photo credit_Williamson Brasfield Download exhibition publication Extremely absorbent and increasingly hollow is an exhibition that complicates the notion of a discrete body separate from the unruly matter of the physical world and impervious to the penetration of cultural signifiers from the social world. Addressing ideas of consumption and …
