ARC Fellows: Sensing, Knowing, and Other Matters Submitted by our 2020 Poetry and the Senses Poetry Fellow: Menat Allah El Attma (English Literature/Global Urban Humanities) Two dangers never truly cease to threaten the world: order and disorder. The artist, in whichever medium they practice, knows then how easy and often they find themselves between opposing […]
ARC Fellows: catastropha Submitted by our 2020 Poetry and the Senses Poetry Fellow: Rusty Morrison (Community Poet) Yesterday morning I took an hour from my work-life to write in my journal. These days of Covid19, of sheltering-at-home, have meant more work for me, not less, in the professional realm. Choosing to enter the journal’s poem-space […]
ARC Fellows: Sore Thumbs Submitted by our 2020 Poetry and the Senses Poetry Fellow: Alex Saum-Pascual (Spanish & Portuguese and Berkeley Center for New Media) I haven’t read a book in weeks. I spend all my reading hours glued to my phone. By the time I am done scrolling words, I feel motion sickness. My […]
ARC Fellows: The First Day of the Plague Was My Birthday Submitted by our 2020 Poetry and the Senses Poetry Fellow: Jared Robinson (English) It starts on my birthday at midnight or the day after. He brings me breakfast and later he brings me flowers. David Hockney was the fourth son of a conscientious objector […]
Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture By: Lindsey Pannor, April 2, 2020 At the end of February, curator Horace Ballad, Ph.D. visited us from WIlliams College to speak on his recent exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars.” Ballard is the Lead Curator of American Art at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), and […]
Opacities: Trans Visual Media By: Lindsey Pannor, April 2, 2020 March 31st marked the eleventh annual Trans Day of Visibility, perfectly cuing this reflection on our most recent event held on campus. Trans artists and activists Tourmaline and Chris Vargas came together to present their film work, followed by a conversation with Eric Stanley of […]
Syria’s Fraught Balance By: Lindsey Pannor, February 26, 2020 Northwestern University’s Shanya Silverstein came to campus on February 19 to present a specific component of her current research: the traditional dance of dabke and its relationship to the contemporary political turmoil surrounding the Syrian civil war. This form of performance, which is deeply tied to […]
Poetry and the Senses has launched! By: Lindsey Pannor, February 5, 2020 Our celebration of the launch of Poetry & the Senses was a joyous combination of indulgence in the arts and critical concern for this year’s theme. Participating readers—Indira Allegra, Chiyuma Elliot, and Lyn Hejinian—were introduced by our director Julia Bryan-Wilson, and further lauded […]
Poetry and the Senses has launched! By: Lindsey Pannor, February 1, 2020 Poetry and the Senses has launched! This program has been in development since October of 2019 following the most generous grant in ARC’s history, courtesy of the Engaging the Senses Foundation. The two-year initiative kicked off this January and will continue throughout the […]
30th Annual Day With(out) Art By: Lindsey Pannor, January 9, 2020 December 1st is World AIDS Day, dedicated to a crisis which is still in its deepest throes. ARC co-sponsored a special film screening to commemorate the day with the California College of the Arts—this being the 30th Annual Day With(out) Arts film “Still Beginning.” […]
