Issued ID

03/19/2019

Issued ID: Minority as Brand lives on in the ongoing work of the artists, including performing artist Chris Evans. Read on...

Yarns was a 10-hour, interactive durational performance at Black & White Projects, as part of the Issued ID: Minority as Brand exhibition curated by Rhiannon MacFayden in April 2016. Visitors w…

09/05/2016

“I really wanted to take the subjects of love, s*x, and dating seriously and felt keenly aware of the trap that I had seen many young female writers pushed into, when they were encouraged to focus on ‘personal’ subjects. Particularly potentially titillating subjects... It’s this weird double bind, isn’t it: On the one hand, it’s as if editors and readers don’t trust young women to know about anything other than their own lives. And then on the other hand we are often asked — structural s*xism asks us — to speak for all women, any time we write. The latter is of course an impossible demand, and so many female writers are criticized when they (inevitably) fall short.” (Moira Weigel)

Who says love and s*x aren’t serious subjects for serious writers? A phalanx of young, female authors are challenging that assumption.

05/14/2016

Chris Evans

Yarns (2016

Yarns illustrates how we are all both yarns that family, society, science, art, history, systems of economics, race and gender wrap us in and the knitter of our yarns. Evans invites the audience to be still, to sit and think about our yarns, to sit and listen to yarns of systems that warp around us all, and to sit and knit our yarns.

Related Tactics
(Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, & Nathan Watson)

Endurance performance: paint, cloth, yarn, wood, body, time/ performed Saturday, April 2, noon-10pm

05/14/2016

Who needs a corporate sweatshop shirt, when you can have one with social meaning?

Related Tactics Collective
Vertical Movement (2016)

Vertical Movement reflects the tragic shooting of Akai Gurley by rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang. As a collective of color, specifically with African American and Asian American members, Related Tactics is invested in unpacking the framing of our communities as structurally in conflict with one another.

Web sourced images on t-shirts, hangers, and rack
$1500

05/14/2016

Think you can handle the truth, then sign here! ;)

Channing Morgan

Contractual Obligations (2015)
Morgan’s experience as a person, who identifies as black while occupying a racially ambiguous body, triggers a subconscious desire in others to understand the unknown. Morgan utilizes collages, text, and installation to explore the failure, patheticism, and humor of our society’s racial structure.
chalk, chalkboard
36 x 48 inches/ $900

05/13/2016

Pickles with a side of social awareness? Sign us up!

Craig Calderwood
Nicki with Gherkins (2016)

This work explores eroticism perceived by the spectator. Calderwood examines how anything can be perceived as erotic, even if that isn’t the intent of Calderwood’s, but might be perceived as erotic by the rendering of a Trans Women next to a piece of pickles.

Puff-paint, pen, and Swarovski crystal on upholstery fabric,
38 x 57 inches/ $3500

05/06/2016

On "Woke"... another illuminating article from The New York Times Magazine's First Words section

“The latest revolution of “woke” doesn’t roll its eyes at white people who care about racial injustice, but it does narrow them at those who seem overeager to identify with the emblems and vernacular of the struggle... A white person who gains a kind of license to use power on behalf of black people can easily wield that power on behalf of themselves.”

“Being woke means being “aware of the real issues” and willing to speak of them “in ways that are uncomfortable for other white folks.”

Even as some people try to get recognition for their social awareness, others are calling them out for trying to score points.

05/05/2016

A fascinating article on how Identity-Driven Art emerged as an art movement, by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine

How identity politics became for this era what Impressionism and Cubism were for theirs.

05/02/2016

Introducing Chris Evans, the artist behind the performance piece "Yarns"

We are both the yarns that family, society, science, art, history, systems of economics, race and gender wrap us in and the knitter of our yarns. You are invited to be still, to sit and think about your yarns, to sit and listen to yarns of systems that wrap around us all, to sit and knit your yarns, to be still and imagine knitting your yarns

04/29/2016

Here is Weston Teruya / 1/3 of Related Tactics, giving valuable insight on their piece "Vertical Movement."

Vertical Movement reflects on the tragic shooting of Akai Gurley by rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang, Liang’s subsequent trial, and the accompanying protests which revealed splits within the Asian American community as to the definitions and scope of racial justice. As a collective of color, specifically with African American and Asian American members, Related Tactics is invested in unpacking the framing of our communities as structurally in conflict with one another.

04/28/2016

A relevant panel hosted at Open Engagement this weekend...
White Privilege in Social Practice: White and POC Artists Share

April 30, 2016, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
James Moore Theater — Level 1

Using the fishbowl discussion format artists Maggie Lawson and Phoenix Soleil will co-facilitate white identified artists and persons of color in discussing the implications of white privilege in making art. The goal is to have people who have done work on race privilege and oppression (personal and/or professional) to model some of the possibilities of collaboration, vulnerability, and accountability for conference attendees.

This event will be immediately followed by a facilitated discussion to continue exploring the ideas brought up by the panel. Participants are invited to join the facilitator and take part in these 50 minute Digester conversations at the end of this panel.

http://openengagement.info/session/white-privilege-in-social-practice-white-and-poc-artists-share/

Using the fishbowl discussion format artists Maggie Lawson and Phoenix Soleil will co-facilitate white identified artists and persons of color in discussing the implications of white privilege in making art. The goal is to have people who have done work on race privilege and oppression (personal and…

04/23/2016

Welcome Tim Rosenborough, one of the artists in our exhibition! Here he is explaining his current masterpiece "I'm Not Black, But You Are"

Come over tomorrow to join our panel discussion at 2pm on 2830 20th street!