Laura Novoa’s text on HOW TO: Oh, Look at me

HOW TO: Oh, look at me is a film that captures the multi-layered, interdisciplinary performance conceived by GeoVanna Gonzalez as an activation of her sculptural installation of the same name on view at Locust Projects through May 22. Through the performance, which features an original musical score by Batry Powr and involves two dancers, Cheina Ramos and Alondra Balbuena, and poets, Zaina Alsous and Arsimmer McCoy, the installation is transformed from a static form to a space that encourages contemplation, meditation and connection. 

Locust Project’s blog

The film, as a receptacle of different languages — spoken, gestural, musical — that come together in their singular agency to create a communal whole, functions as an added layer of meaning, a translation of a translation. Through the performance, Gonzalez examines how forms of communication and miscommunication, both in person and mediated, reflect our self-awareness and condition our perception of those around us.

Between Islands and Peninsulas

Terremoto‘s blog–Amanda Linares presents Between Islands and Peninsulas at Bakehouse Art Complex.

Artist book Todo Sigue Igual (detail); photo by Pedro Wazzan, 2021

[…] the viewer is taken on their own journey, mirroring the one Linares represents in Between Islands and Peninsulas, an immigrant’s story that transports you over time, space, and destinations.

Linares’ varied use of materials allows her to create works that are simultaneously delicate yet durable. She seeks to capture the contradictions of the human condition through materiality. In the artist books Todo Sigue IgualAgua Salada, and Alternative Realities, she uses seemingly disparate mediums to convey the coexistence of the contradictory emotions and ideas. The artist books, constructed geographies of text and images, evoke the feelings of nostalgia, displacement, and disorientation Linares experienced during her own diaspora.

Laura Novoa

TIS03

TIS03 is twelve books by twelve artists, sold both as a box set and as individual titles.

Sasha Arutyunova / Shelter

Tim Carpenter / A month of Sundays

J Carrier / The Folly

Nelson Chan / Quicksand

Rose Marie Cromwell / Eclipse

Tenzing Dakpa / Dungkhar

Adler Guerrier / Sheltering in, so we can begin again

16cm x 24cm
softcover
48 pages
ISBN 978-1-943146-23-9

Will Matsuda / The Potter Becomes The Pot

Yael Malka / The Views

Andrea Modica / 2020

Aaron Turner / Black Alchemy: if this one thing is true

Carl Wooley / Beforetimes