For Systems by Christiana Myers, a chapbook of poems.
EP album cover for It all depends on how you want to hurt by Doctor Mother Father (2024, Monopolized Records.)
HOST: a virtual contemporary art project, online
"It has been 464 days since the nationwide lockdown was first enforced, and I have yet to visit a gallery and enjoy art in the way it was once possible, but a new online exhibition offers a convenient version of such an experience. Curated by New Brunswick-based curator, artist, and writer Amy Ash, HOST is a borderless alternative to visiting a traditional art gallery. It was created with the intention of offering a site for receiving and learning about care and reciprocity. Built by artist KC Wilcox, it is the cumulation of reciprocal collaborations, with its design and interactive elements drawn from early video games (such as walking simulators). Existing solely in the digital sphere, HOST speaks to the rapid evolution the arts have undertaken in order to adapt to the changing face of the artworld in the midst of a pandemic. It offers a new interpretation of what kind of experience viewers can have in seeing artworks outside of the institution.
The exhibition includes works by rudi aker, Anna Binta Diallo, Séamus Gallagher, Emily Kennedy, Caroline Monnet, respectfulchild, Lou Sheppard, Rachel M Thornton, Winnie Truong, Maggie Higgins, and Wilcox, all of whom Ash has brought together under the auspicious aim of “exploring the power of hospitality and xenophilia to subvert the rise of far right politics and subsequent hostility, divisiveness and destruction.” With HOST, the curator was looking to carve out a space for enacting care while simultaneously examining how care, reciprocity, and kinship can in fact generate resistance against xenophobia, tightening borders, and the escalating climate crisis." -Maeve Hanna for Akimbo
