Body as site carrying blood memory forward. Interrupted by colonial acts. Relationships revive Weaving together the strength of ancestors. Through generative collaboration, Kali Spitzer (Jewish and Kaska Dena) and Bubzee (European settler) hold space for one another braiding their ancestral connections to heal colonial wounds. Created on the unceded lands of Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh, Tsleil-Waututh, Sinixt and Mi’kmaq […]
Collaborations
Photographers on Photographers: Sal Taylor Kydd and Dawn Surratt in conversation
The Touchstones project began as a visual conversation between artists Sal Taylor Kydd and Dawn Surratt. This project has morphed into a deeper understanding of connection, adaptability and creativity as the world has been challenged with a life threatening pandemic. Through a series of photographic diptychs and poems, the work has evolved as a call […]
Photographers on Photographers: Derrick Woods-Morrow and Concerned Black Image Makers
Over the last month I’ve spent time on multiple devices, using multiple strategies to catch up with the now scattered members of Concerned Black Image makers (CBIM). And as a national pandemic overwhelms the USA this interview connects the dots of Black voices who are creating new images for seeing ourselves doing blackity-black things, despite the […]
On Collaboration: Street Scene by Hans Gindelsberger and Jon Horvath
It seems particularly appropriate to present this collaborative project in a period of quarantine with uncertain timelines. We are all rethinking routines — scrambling to maintain the familiar and readjusting priorities assisted by digital tech-nology. Street Scene, the ongoing project by Hans Gindelsberger and Jon Horvath, has its origins in shared generational memory, allowing iconic […]
Spain Week: Anna Cabrera and Angel Albarrán: The Mouth of Krishna
…and He opens his mouth and Yashoda gasps. She sees in Krishna’s mouth the whole complete entire timeless universe. All the stars and planets of space and the distance between them; all the lands and seas of the earth and the life in them; she sees all the days of yesterday and all the days […]
Sara Bennett: LOOKING INSIDE: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences
Sara Bennett is doing the important work of humanizing those behind prison walls. She has a legacy of considering subjects who have no voice, who have suffered at the hands of others, and those who have had their life change in a flash of bad choices. Her projects chronicle women during and after incarceration and […]