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José Guadalupe Garza

Image of artist at home during Zoom video conference

José Guadalupe Garza was born along the US/Mexico border. He is an artist, educator, and veteran working in new and traditional media. His studio practice utilizes cinema and popular culture as theoretical frameworks to explore the changing demographic and cultural landscape of the U.S. with significance to the Latinx experience. Garza borrows from films, music, literary works, and the science fiction genre to create reimagined narratives. His projects take on various forms such as ad hoc libraries, curated screenings and exhibitions, improvisations and reenactments, experimental lectures and presentations, workshops, drawing, photography, sculpture, and video.

Garza has exhibited nationally and internationally including the 2017 Biennale de Spazio Pubblico in Rome (2017), From the Archives, Video Art in America at Everson Museum (2019), Border Control at University of Michigan Stamps Gallery (2019), and the Counterpublic Triennial (2019). He earned a BFA in Drawing from the University of Florida and an MFA in Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he serves as the Museum Educator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, is a founding member of Monaco, an artist run cooperative in St. Louis, MO, and serves on the boards of Bread and Roses Missouri, Latinx Arts Network, Paul Artspace, and the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University.

Some of the books mentioned in the interview –

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh and Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Lavin and artwork by Lia Halloran and The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson, also mentioned was “The Slow Cancelation of the Future“, a title of a body of work and in reference to the first chapter of Mark Fisher’s book, Ghosts of My Life and Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi.

Shelter in Place (El Norte), 15 framed Polaroid photographs, 18×24 inches, 2020WhiteNoise/BlindContour series (Skull, Books, Headphones, Fruit), archival ink on graph journal paper, 12×8.5″, 2020

Carlos Monleon Gendall

Carlos works with a variety of processes and materials, both living and nonliving, that result in sculptural and participatory artworks.These span across different levels of bodily sensation and awareness; from the microbiological to the performative and social bodies. His main line of line of work traces evolutionary processes that stem from digestion and cognition and result in the distribution of biological processes across multi-species entanglements and cybernetic metabolisms.

Carlos has developed collaborative projects at spaces such as Autoitalia, Seventeen Gallery and Diaspore Project Space, London, Cráter Invertido, Mexico, Hangar, Lisbon as well as institutions such as CA2M, and Matadero, Madrid, HIAP Helsinki, and has shown his individual practice at LUMA Arles, Z33, Istanbul Design Biennial or the Tallin Biennial amongst others.

The books mentioned in the interview were Sensitive Chaos by Theodor Schwenk, Nose Dive a field guide to the world’s smells by Harold McGee and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake.

Colloquy of Vessels-2018-2020 Hand Blown Glass, steel tubing, cotton thread, avocado stone.SAUNA – 2017

Catherine Pierce

Catherine Pierce (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)

Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days, published by Saturnalia Books in October 2020.

Her other books are The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words.

Pierce’s work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. An NEA Fellow and two-time Pushcart Prize winner, she is professor of English at Mississippi State University, where she co-directs the creative writing program.

Books mentioned in the interview – Danger Days, The Tornado id the World, The Girls of Peculiar and Famous Last Words.

Lenard Smith

Lenard Smith is a first generation Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Smith’s Advanced Photographic Studies MFA from Bard College grounds his work in traditional practices and methodologies — his interest in tableaux pictures are derived from historical guide books that offer solutions to life or death scenarios. Smith’s experimentation with sculpture comes from an urge to collect and make meaning of the natural world we inhabit and what humankind has made of the world.

In 2020 Smith was included in virtual exhibitions with Los Angeles Municipal gallery and received grants from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and an Artist Relief Grant to continue his studio practice from home.

Smith has held artist residencies at Salmon Creek Farm (Mendocino CA), Unpublished Studio (Los Angeles CA), and Light Work Artist Residency Program (New York), published books with Pau Wau Publications, &Press, and has had his book featured in the Radical Reading Room (2019) project at Studio Museum Harlem.

Fig. 56 Position of Bearers, 2010 From the series ‘In Case of Emergency’ Archival Pigment Print 30 x 40 inches Edition of 3 + 2 A.P.Runaway Slave, 2020 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 + 2 A.P.

Firat Erdim

Whether with chisel, cast shadow, plumb bob, or the tow-line of a kite, Erdim’s practice investigates the intersection of projection, place, and materiality to question axioms of architectural imagination. His work has been exhibited recently at the Constance Gallery at Graceland University (IA, USA), Yellow Door Gallery (IA, USA), the Spartanburg Art Museum (SC, USA), the Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz (Rome, Italy), Windor (Madrid, Spain), and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark). He was the co-founder of Flash Atölye, an experimental project space for art and architecture in İzmir, Turkey. This work has been supported by the Daniel J. Huberty Fellowship and the Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities at Iowa State University, and by residencies at I-Park (CT, USA), Vermont Studio Center (USA), Babayan Culture House (Turkey), the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (KY, USA), and Heima (Iceland). Awards include the 2014 Founders Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, and a 2016 Santo Foundation Award for Individual Artists. He has a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the Cooper Union, and a Master of Architecture Degree from the University of Virginia. Erdim is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University.

The book mentioned in the interview: Carlo Rovelli, Anaximander (2007) and Rovelli’s The Order of Time (2019).

Kite Choir Sounding: December 25, 2020. Waterworks Park, Des Moines. from Firat Erdim on Vimeo.

Sophie Grant

Sophie Grant is an artist using painting, drawing, collage, and processes of transference and erasure to create energetic abstractions. In her work, foregrounds and backgrounds fluctuate with compositions that challenge depth perception. Pours of paint and crusty stains coagulate, evoking erosion and relief. Hand built ceramics punctuate fields of flatness, adding dimension to the rigid support of a wall. Her recent drawings are graphite rubbings that explore temporary physical and psychological sites through the echoes of histories embedded in object surfaces. These works grapple with ideas of boundaries and containers, and question what delineates the periphery of objects. Sophie’s practice culls and compresses disjointed gestures, allowing shapes, digits, and surface variations to become units of measurement and unknowable markers. The result is a materially varied set of transcribed bodily perceptions, grounded in the subject of landscape.Sophie Grant was born in Santa Cruz, California and lives and works in New York City. She received her BA in Painting from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008, completed her MFA at Hunter College in 2015, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015. She has been a former participant in Shandaken’s Paint School, The Hercules Art Studio Program, and The Keyholder Program at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York, NY, as well as a former resident at The Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, FL, The Pajama Factory in Williamsport, PA, and Painting’s Edge in Idyllwild, CA. Her work has been exhibited at Flag Art Foundation, Spring Break, Underdonk and Y2k Gallery among others. Publications include The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Artist’s Institute Hunted Book Series, and New American Paintings.Hope Mountain, Graphite and pigment stick on canvas, 52”x 39”, 2020Burned-over District, Graphite on canvas, 60” x 45”, 2020

Josepha Gutelius

An award-winning poet and playwright, Josepha Gutelius made a radical switch to visual art in 2015 — inspired by an impulse to continue writing on the canvas, to convert narratives into visions. She usually works in series, each painting an interdependent expression of a particular theme. Themes such as “Shape of Water,” “School Days,” “Theater Pieces,”  “Roman Elegies,” and most recently, “Inhabiting New Earth.” Her series “Silence of Nowhere” received a generous grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.  Two of her paintings are currently on view at the Albany Institute of History and Art, selected by Susan Cross, senior curator at Mass MoCA.

She lives in Saugerties, New York with her husband, whom she met at Salvador’s house in Cadaques, Spain, in 1971.

Images of her recent work can be seen on Instagram #josephagutelius.

This is the book discussed in the interview: The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

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Mark Gerard Brogan

Mark Gerard Brogan was born in London where he studied art as an under- and post-graduate at Goldsmiths college. For over 15 years he has been living in Belgrade working as an artist and translator. As a resident in Belgrade – a foreigner in the “relaxed”, “bipolar” position of belonging – in his watercolour paintings and collages he reads society’s problems from the cracks, fractures and overlapping of socio-politico-historical phenomena.

He first exhibited in Serbia in 2010 at the Belgrade Cultural Centre showing an experimental film about an artist-run telephone call-centre. In 2017 he exhibited the large-scale photo-wallpaper “Unforgetting Aelita” in the courtyard of the Gallery-Legacy of Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković, and more recently participated in the 13th International Aquarelle Biennial in Zrenjanin, Serbia and his exhibition “Shadowy Stories” was held at Remont Independent Art Space in Belgrade. His works are in amongst others the collections of Deutsche Telekom and the InterSpace Association, Sofia, Bulgaria  – Transitland. Video art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009.

30 Juin 1960 Zaire Indpendent installationBetween Worlds

Sutthirat Supaparinya

Sutthirat Supaparinya lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her works encompass a wide variety of mediums such as installation, objects, still and moving images. Through her works, she questions and interprets public information and reveals or question what’s structure affect her/us as a national/global citizen. Her recent projects focus on history and the impact of human activities on other humans and the landscape. Sutthirat seeks to cultivate freedom of expression through her art practice.

As a visual artist among the art community in Chiang Mai, she has participated in the founding and operation of CAC – Chiangmai Art Conversation since 2013. She was a director of Asian Culture Station (ACS) in the year 2016-2019 when CAC partnered with the Japan Foundation Asia Center Tokyo to establish the project. CAC aims to promote contemporary art in Chiang Mai while ACS activated Asian culture and its network. Sutthirat earned a BFA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chiang Mai University and a postgraduate diploma in Media Arts from Hochschule Fuer Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany. She is a 2005 Imaging Our Mekong media fellowship and a 2010 Asian Cultural Council fellowship at International Studio & Curatorial Program – ISCP in New York City. She was selected to participate in the International Creator Residency Program at the Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama in 2012, Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, NRW, Germany in 2013 and Wellington Asia Residency Exchange, New Zealand in 2015. She was nominated for the Prudential Eye Awards 2016 shortlist in ‘Best Emerging Artist Using Digital/Video’, Singapore. Winners of Institut Français for an artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France in 2018.

Museums and galleries that have featured Sutthirat’s work include Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Japan, Jim Thompson Art Center, Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum, Gallery Ver, Thailand, Queensland Art Gallery and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Australia, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA, Singapore Art Museum and ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong and Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland.

International festivals and biennials; Koganecho Bazzar 2011 in Yokohama, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012 and 2018, Japan, EVA International [Ireland’s Biennial] in Limerick City, Ireland, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, Cairo Biennale 13 in Cairo, Egypt and Biennale Jogja Equator #5, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The highlight of upcoming exhibitions such as After Hope: Videos of Resistance, the video program under #MuseumFromHome and engage with art at a distance policy, the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA [Open from Spring 2021] and The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [27 November 2021 – 25 April 2022]. Recently, she is a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2021, the one-year artist in residence in Berlin, Germany.

When Need Moves the Earth, synchronized 3 – channel video, 2014 ©Sutthirat SupaparinyaTen Places in Tokyo, synchronized 10 – channel video, 2016, ©Sutthirat Supaparinya

These are the books that she is reading which were mentioned in the interview –

Here are the links to books that Sutthirat Supaparinya is reading: Most of them are old books and a rare find.[1] https://www.se-ed.com/product/Pirates-of-Tarutao-The.aspx?no=9789748904696&nomobile=true[2] เสียงแผ่นดิน และอ้อยในปากช้าง[3] https://m.se-ed.com/Product/Detail/2229090006237[4] เส้นทางยุคศรีอาริยะ บันทึกกบฏ

Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez is a Pacific islander poet originally from Guam.

He is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor of five anthologies.

He teaches in the English department at the University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa.


The book mentioned in the interview was Habitat Threshold.




Habitat Threshold (2020)

unincorporated territory [lukao] (2017)