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Throughout my conversations surrounding this series, the need for infrastructure has emerged as a dominant theme in considerations of art’s role in the innovation hub. In my last post, I discussed the crucial experiments and perspectives artists bring to Boston. Clearly, artists have the potential to become cornerstones of ongoing innovation in Boston, but what about the skills, tools, and resources necessary for the realization of this potential? What layers of infrastructure are needed to support creative processes and ongoing artistic innovation throughout the city? Several artist-centric nonprofits are already grappling with…
There was a flash blizzard in Nebraska in 1888 called the Great Blizzard. People froze in place ten feet from their homes, or saddling their horses. Some lucky individuals found a clothesline or fence to follow through the whiteout to a shelter. The specifics of my creative practice are like that clothesline: actions or practices to return to when nothing else is making sense or working. Some projects that have come out of this process are described below. EMPTY FULL This sculpture is an empty cylinder made from rubberized plastic in the…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • • • Events • • • Thursday November 21 Henry Horenstein, Jess, South Boston, MA, 2008. Pigment Print. MFA, Alfond Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston Lecture: Henry Horenstein 12:30pm • • • • • • • • • • Saturday November 23 Villa Victoria, 405 Shawmut Ave, Boston Todo Bajo Control. “…curators Ian Deleón and Anabel Vázquez produce(d) a site specific installation featuring the work of…
On opening day of the 2013 TransCultural Exchange Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, a green laser beam shot across the dark expanse between Boston University’s School of Law and the newer Student Village skyscraper. Florian Dombois, the German artist behind uboc No. 1 & stuVi2, is also one of the founders of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR). The laser remained lit for the four days of the Conference, drawing a simple and elegant line across one of Boston’s busiest thoroughfares. Stephanie Cardon Though I wasn’t at your talk at…
Ben Sloat My first question is about artistic research. I teach here in Boston in a couple of graduate programs and I’m always interested in sharing the rubrics of research with the students: what the methodologies of research are, what are the goals, how are things modified, and I am wondering in terms of this project, what your research entailed? Matthew Ritchie You started with the big question right? BS Well we have only a few minutes so we might as well go for the gold right? MR I think there are…
For over two years Mario Garcia Torres obsessively researched the circumstances surrounding an obscure assignment given to a small group of students at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in 1969. In a process he has likened to detective work, the young Mexico-born artist fastidiously mined archives, tracked down participating students, conducted interviews, and even journeyed to Halifax to document a class reunion.1 Telexed to Halifax by New York-based conceptual artist Robert Barry, the assignment consisted of a simple proposal. It neither launched the career of a new art star,…
At the corner of 6th and Market Streets, standing so close to the Liberty Bell Center that you can hardly pay a visit to Philadelphia’s famous metonym without bumping into it, is a newly revitalized city landmark. It now takes the form of a small open-air museum, marking the place where a house occupied by Presidents Washington and Adams once stood; its design hints at the outlines of the former mansion, though does not seek to fully replicate it. The museum seems only half-built, standing one story high, with pillars suggesting a…
Andrea Lynn Santos’ work evokes the spareness of this time of year, as leaves fall to the ground, windows are shut tight, and the sky is emptied of birds. As in the collograph print, My Bed, My Burden, it speaks to the desire to burrow under the covers and not emerge until spring Asylum, now on view at GRIN, might be too hard-edged a word for these rustic works on display. Santos’ work is softer, layered, delicate, in a minor key. Asylum marks the first solo show for Santos, a 2011 Mass…