Breathing 2026: Microorganisms
Artist Zhao Rongjie's filmed documentation of her "Microorganisms" project, where she cultivates, cares for, and creates art from bacterial cellulose.
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ArtsEverywhere is a platform for artistic experimentation and exploration of the fault lines of modern society.
Reactivating Exiled Capacities
Artistic Invitations for Relational Repair
Artistic Practice
A collection of artistic works that show the broad range of contemporary practices in the world today.
Breathing
A ground-breaking blend of conceptual art, documentary film, and ethnographic research from the mountains of southwest China by conceptual artist Zhao Rongjie.
Complicating Care
This series holds a collection of articles by artists and writers who share the ways in which their practices, communities, and experiences engage with the complex and contradictory notion of care.
Art-Life Rituals for Radical Tenderness
A series by artists whose work travels between physical, social, and metabolic bodies, to create intimate art-life ritual responses to the text Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness.
Latest Articles
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I(s) Land
An invitation… to float, to levitate, to become (devenir) a moving island to dissolve into an archipelago, detaching from the fixity of the self to dance to the rhythm of
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V.E.R.I. C.U.I.D.A.D.O.
I wonder how to cultivate the capacity for new and different ways of relating to myself, others, other beings, the land, and the planet, even as the culture around me
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rituals for the anthropocene: the human-dominated planet
i am hugo or huga (no pronouns / they / them), identifying myself as queer, trans- & beyond-the-binary. i was born (in 1989) and raised in (the land colonially known
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Curating as Healing
A letter to myself, and the systems I am part of (an invitation to rest)
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infinitely entangled with…
Ruminations on learning to be lovers of holes, students of metabolisms, and symbiotic multitudes in times of extinction
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Lullabies for Anthropocene
A sonic ritual for composting human exceptionalism
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Breathing Syncopes
The ground was always holy. And there was nothing we needed to build…. and it wasn’t easy. We were so entangled. Got liberation and accumulation confused.– brontë velez, “The Well” on
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Rise Up & Vote: The Triumph of Democracy
A refugee produced and directed documentary that provides rare insight into the structures of electoral politics and self-governance in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda where the first female candidate was elected to the Refugee World Council.
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Lxs Dos: Ingenious and Indigenous
A Mexican-American lawyer and human rights activist examines symbolism and meaning in two works of public art that reflect the struggles of life and maleffects of migration policies on the borderlands.
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In Conversation: SWOON
A discussion with Caledonia Curry (SWOON) about her relationship to street art, muralism, the borderlands and the diversity of inspiration in her work.
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Gráfica Libre: Exhibition Review
Showcasing street artists from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and Latin America whose work emphasizes artistic responses to social and political crises.
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Power and Place in the Work of Border Artists
A borderlands historian reflects on the work of border artists to understand how their art activates memory in a place where the educational system, media, popular culture, and the political system work vigorously to suppresses memories and history.
