books
I WILL KEEP MY SOUL by Helen Cammock | A rhizomatic and particularly American story of art and activism, of culture and capital, of being and belonging, this prismatic artist’s book layers photography, historical documents, poetry and other texts, all rooted in the city of New Orleans.
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✼ events:
May 12 & 13 in NYC. Siglio will be participating in the International Center for Photography’s Photobook Fest! A selection of books with photos and without, all on sale. Come by!
[...]reviews
Times Literary Supplement | THE HOTEL by SOPHIE CALLE: “Is there judgement in Calle’s photograph, and if so, who is being judged?” —Lauren Elkin
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features
Air/Light (Interview) | Nicole Rudick and Sam Stephenson dive into the life of Niki de Saint Phalle and the nuances of shaping a biography
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excerpts
ROCK OF EYE — Brent Hayes Edwards talks with Troy Montes-Michie: “I’ve come to think of [El Paso] as my first experience with the language of collage … two very separate cultures colliding on every level”
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excerpts
“It Is What It Is” — Introduction by author Richard Kraft: “I made a drawing of a yellow card and a red card … a talisman through which I sought to exercise a silent — and completely ineffective — retribution”
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✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
It was spring. And then it was not. And now it is again. How far can you throw a ball? What if one could travel along a high arc, across a continent, an ocean? What if you could travel with the ball, see as it might what is above and below? And I wonder what its speed might be? Enough to stay aloft, but slow, not even so fast as a swallow? That was once how a single season felt. Now…
[...]affinities
Remembrance | Bernadette Mayer, 1945–2022, “GIANT of AMERICAN POETRY.” We share our sorrow with her family, friends and readers—all who knew a truth-teller, a risk-taker, a shaman of daily life when they saw one.
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affinities
Remembrance | DOROTHY IANNONE, 1933–2022: A self-taught artist who made exuberantly sexual, joyfully transgressive, and often autobiographical image+text works, radical in their inversion of binaries, and often tender in the incorporation of her lovers and friends.
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the improbable
No. 2 Time Is Elastic — J. MAE BARIZO: “This mode of translation, one that is enacted in the colonizer’s language, is not enough; we need to think about the violation this blur of identity entails, how it can also ruin and obscure.”
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the improbable
No. 1 Time Indefinite — TRACIE MORRIS: “There are intersecting communities of experimental artists … We are perpetually in conversation with each other across, time, space, beingness, perspective and geography”
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excerpts
CECILIA VICUñA — Lucy Lippard writes: “Her art is a naturally fused amalgam of word and act in which she not only translates, but becomes an archaeologist of language, excavating, dissecting, recreating meaning”
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features
Tupelo Quarterly (Forum) | Danielle Dutton, Lucy Ives & Lisa Pearson participate Feminist Poetics of the Archive, curated and moderated by Karla Kelsey
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✼ elsewhere:
“Not an object or a text but a name, a spirit: Jean Brown … The name ‘Jean Brown’ itself was, for me, the conduit of Howe’s “mystic, documentary telepathy.” When her name appeared on a citation, I sensed that this object or book had been carefully selected, cared for, considered, held.”
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