The landscape cracks and I sink into a nameless current – What can I salvage? – I imagine you swimming in a clear blue lake – If only I could move past this A lecture on biology and plasticity is
So, Mary?
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
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,
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
Grace Lee Boggs’ Message to Occupy Wall Street – 10/9/11
Grace Lee is a Los Angeles based filmmaker of both documentary and fiction films. She is currently in production on the feature documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, about 96-year-old Detroit philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs.
excerpts from All the Colors of the Dark
For the past few years, I’ve been composing collages based on typographic forms; prior to this, my work had consisted primarily of surreal, dreamlike narratives and were purely figurative compositions. I have always, however, loved creating abstract work as well,
Wonder Stranger
Michelle Ruiz is a native Chicagoan with a degree in Interactive Multimedia & Video from Columbia College. Previously, she has worked in both Chicago and New York in the Post Production and Television industry while working on various independent video
1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim
Citations for this work may be found at bit.ly/1700projectcitation. Performance artist, writer and global agitator, Anida Yoeu Ali is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. Utilizing video, installation, sound, and performance. Her works
Heavy Skirt
My childhood was spent in Prey Veng province of Cambodia in the early seventies in a time of war. My mother talks about having very few clothes at that time, and only one skirt, which she patched over and over