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The Porch is the Tree is the Watering Hole

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The Porch is the Tree is the Watering Hole, on view at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Viewed through art, architecture, photography and poetry, the exhibition is a dynamic exploration of space and community within this historical Black neighborhood. The exhibition features artists and designers Germane Barnes, Darius V. Daughtry, David I Muir, Adler Guerrier, Olalekan Jeyifous, Adrienne Chadwick, Marlene Brunot and George Gadson, and is presented by Broward County Cultural Division.

Steinbrunn

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© Carly Steinbrunn 2015 courtesyof MACK.

The Voyage of Discovery Photographs by Carly Steinbrunn, MACK, London, England, 2015. 96 pp., 8¼ x 10¼”.

Humanity is present through the traces it has left behind, traces that could be those of a remote or vanished civilisation.

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[The book] is sequenced with pictures I considered ‘archetypal’ to carry a collective iconic memory – such as the historical artefacts, photographed in a simple and direct way. Then I introduced mysterious places, plants or architectural structures to show a more subjective point of view. One of the main questions I had in mind while making this body of work was how might a subjective experience also speak of a collective one? This is partly why I photographed places in Brazil, as an homage to Claude Lévi- Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques.

Carly Steinbrunn interview with Paper Journal

Image is part of a portfolio of collotype prints on 29 x 36cm Japanese Washi paper by MACK and the Benrido atelier, Kyoto.

A lecture on Corners

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Anne Carson. Presented on May 10, 2018, by GC Public Programs and the Critical Theory Certificate Program.

32:20 “Our house is our corner of the world,” Bachelard says.

32:29 With its dialectic of inside and outside, the house is a container holding an answer to some question that is posed …

Related : visualizing theory conference. Interview in the Paris Review, 2004. Stillness Complicated by Corners – CI.

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Movement Voter Project has identified 42 local groups working in key battleground states to fight voter suppression, mobilize voters, and build infrastructure that will lead to lasting change. All net proceeds from this fundraiser will be distributed by Movement Voter Project to these grassroots organizations working on the ground.

States of Change was organized to support this meaningful and much-needed work.

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Danny Lyon, Merci Gonaives, Haiti, 1986. Artist website, Instagram.

Ed Ruscha, Desert, 1984. Artist website, Instagram.