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 The Hand-Off: Shori Sims in Conversation with Harrison Kinnane Smith
12.26.21

Shori Sims is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland who now lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She has exhibited work throughout Pittsburgh and the Midwest, as well as with Lubov Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, and internationally in both London, UK, and Toronto, Canada. Her articles and zines have been published in apmagazine, SPICY Zine, SKEW Magazine, and Yale’s Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History.
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In her essay "In some far off place, I'll wait for you" Cybernature and the Preservation of Space , published in the Bunker Review's Hand-Off series, Sims advocates Black cyber-feminism in the face of late-stage capitalism's disregard of nature. Sims positions nature a historical place of respite and communion for the oppressed, and presents "cybernature" as a the new frontier in anti-capitalist, communal freedom. Watch the virtual conversation with Sims about her essay and how she addresses these themes in her art.

Read Shori's Essay in the Hand-Off Series

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 The Hand-Off: Teena Wilder in Conversation with Way Gilbert and Tara Fay Coleman
4.3.21

A virtual conversation between Teena Wilder, Way Gilbert and Tara Fay Coleman about hair culture, literature, Blackness, and visual art.

Teena Wilder is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. Wilder was raised in rural Summerton, South Carolina, and received their BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in New Studio Practice with minors in both Humanities and Art History.
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Wày Gilbert is an artist based, born, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin currently completing her undergraduate degree at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Her work addresses themes of Blackness, space and religion.

Tara Fay is an independent curator, producer, and conceptual artist from Buffalo, NY.

This talk is an extension of Wilder's text Things I Took From My Father, published in the Bunker Review’s Hand-Off essay series. In the work, Wilder explores themes of stillness, blackness, and healing while reflecting on the adoption of complex familial narratives as forms of survival. 

Read Teena's Essay ​in the Hand-Off Series

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​The Hand-Off: Nick Drain and Harrison Kinnane Smith in Conversation
1.2.21

Nick Drain is a fine artist born in Chicago, IL, who lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. Centering his thinking around blackness, his work investigates the politics of visibility in an effort to illustrate the complex relationship of blackness and Black people to the object of the camera. 

Published in the Bunker Review's new Hand-Off series, Drain's essay What Are You Looking At?  uses photographic history, Simone Brown’s sousveillance, and Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon to uncover the entangled relationship between “the technology that is race and the technology that is photography.” Join us for a virtual conversation between Drain and Bunker Review editor Harrison Kinnane Smith about Drain's essay, and how he addresses the questions it raises in his art.

Read Nick's Essay ​in the Hand-Off Series