Julianne Hill is a Chicago-based writer and producer. Her short essay film “So, Mary?” screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival and the Chicago REEL Shorts Film Festival, where it earned an Audience Choice Award. Her essays and reportage for
To Persia
Yasi Ghanbari is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago. Ghanbari received her MFA in Film, Video, and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Ghanbari is interested in examining modes of legitimation
It Is a Pulsing Heart
And then she grasps with an unpleasant jolt of consciousness like licking the posts of a nine-volt battery, which she did once on a whim when she was ten, that she has never pushed herself to do anything, not a
Trinities
Amira Hanafi lives in Chicago. She has exhibited work in Chicago galleries, published visual poetry in Diagram and Sleepingfish, organized multi-vocal readings of her texts, performed with the Clairaudient sound collective, and dispersed handmade books and multiples including Palm Reading,
A Love Story in Peelings
A. Prologue: Signs of Life Tinny static from a tape deck.Desk lamp on in total darkness on floor.Unfold the silken cloth.Under the lamp light examine a limb.Observe.Observe.Observe.Replace the limb with your face.Drop static. B. She’s So Good One: Face to
Lamentations
When I walk down the street, when I abandon the relative comfort of my city apartment, when I step outside, not knowing where it is that I am going, and when I at last decide to head to the corner
Labyrinth
Hyeon Jung Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. Hyeon received her BFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and studied at University of London at Goldsmiths College. She is a recipient of SAIC Fellowship Award and
Martha and Megaliths
We eat that fish, and the fish is delicious. Then she discusses the fish with the chef, its preparation, its presentation. We are at a Michelin one star restaurant in Quimper, Brittany. It was the sea bass or dace, flesh
How Bilbao
As at London’s Tate modern where you descend a wide ramp to enter and then look up at the art galleries, you enter the Bilbao Guggenheim down a wide arced staircase with shallow risers and look up into the atrium.
Rabbit Wind
The compressor is too noisy so they shut it off before you read. These twelve foot high pink and white inflatable bunnies slowly flatten. When inflated they are some terrifying bunnies. Once deflated they are easy to stomp on. They