The amazing VALIE EXPORT …
„That is because I look at life as an endlessly moving sculpture, an extension of the body’s cavity into the galactic labyrinth. It is a genetic sculpture, billions of years old, and is unfinished. The trope of this sculpture is caught in the realm between reality and potentiality.“ Interview with Roswitha Mueller, Milwaukee, April 1992...
Reflections on The Long Walk, 2011 – Pt.2
From Blog4Culture summer days spent wandering beside the waters of babylon Aug 22nd, 2011 by Jordan Howland The second in a series of reflections on The Long Walk, 2011. D.K. Pan and NKO were commissioned by Susan Robb to create artwork for The Long Walk. D.K. and NKO have collaborated on numerous creative endeavors including...
Reflections on The Long Walk – Pt.1
From Blog4Culture reflections on the long walk…a pedestrian adventure Aug 18th, 2011 by Jordan Howland Susan Robb and a group of 50 trail trampers walked more than 45 miles along our fabulous Regional Trails System over the course of four days, July 28th-31st. They trekked from Golden Gardens Park to Snoqualmie Falls – through...
Genius!
Congratulations to d.k. Pan, a deserving recipient of a 2011 Stranger Genius Award! D.k. has masterminded all kinds of brilliant, subversive, funny, charming, pioneering (and I could keep piling on the superlatives) projects from The Bridge Motel to My Mother My Father to Free Sheep Foundation to. I was thrilled to have him create 66...
Todd Shalom gays up the dérive
I met Todd Shalom four or five years ago at Walter De Maria’s Lightning Fields in New Mexico. We wandered around the desert together watching jackrabbits, strange insects, and the light change while talking about love and relationships. Year later we both started walking projects (oddly enough, another artist who was there with us, Aaron...
Gathering People like Thoughts
In May I attended Open Engagement, “an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration, directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students”. At a talk by the women who founded Pland I was introduced to an essay...