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The Impermanence of the Present Moment: Part II
A three-part artistic investigation into the occupation and dissolution of Tamil holy sites in Sri Lanka.
Artistic Practice
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The Impermanence of the Present Moment: Part I
A three-part artistic investigation into the occupation and dissolution of Tamil holy sites in Sri Lanka.
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Is the Yiddishland Pavilion a model for transnational collaboration in the globalized art scene?
The term “Yiddish art” could imply essentialist and contentious geopolitical and identitarian meanings of Yiddishness. Instead, Suzana Milevska asks if the Yiddishland Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale is one way to embrace the diversity that a diaspora brings to art, culture, and identity.
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“And It’s True We Are Immune…”
Reflections on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
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Breathing: Opening Night in Chengdu
Soon after the ban on public gatherings was lifted in China, Zhao Rongjie traveled to the capital of Sichuan Province to display two years of silkworm cocoon installations, mushroom spore prints, and embroidered silk tapestries.
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A Sigil’s Landscape
For its first destination the Nomadic Pigment Lab travels to La Barbacoa, Dominican Republic to collaborate with artist and botanical enthusiast Eliazar Ortiz, working with natural pigments to create a unique language of sigils.
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War Trash: Rebuilding Laos With US Bombs
Growing up in a country littered by the detritus of war, rural Laotians in the most heavily-bombed regions set off into the jungles to harvest unexploded ordnance that could either transform their family’s economic future or seal a terrible fate.
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Field Diary: Among the Mushroom Hunters
In the mountains of southwest China, conceptual artist and director Zhao Rongjie meets a husband and wife team of mushroom hunters who welcome her into their home and introduce her to a simpler, antiquated world of physical labour, spiritual inheritance, and symbiosis with nature.
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When the Dead Open the Eyes of the Living
In Zagreb, Croatia, the Women to Women collective commemorates lives lost along the Balkan migrant trail through slow craft stitching as a gesture of care and protest.
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Breathing 2021: Field Notes Week 2
Conceptual artist Zhao Rongjie chronicles daily life on Jizu Mountain, as she helps her local hosts Da Ge and Da Sao harvest walnuts and mushrooms to sell at the weekly market.
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Breathing 2021: Field Notes
In the mountains of Yunnan Province, near China’s southwestern frontiers, conceptual artist Zhao Rongjie has spent months collecting and documenting rare endemic fungus species with local mushroom hunters.
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The Painting
Thirty-two years after Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, it was discovered in the bedroom of a deceased woman in rural New Mexico. Only the painting knows how it got there.
