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Saturation Fatigue: A Return to Informatic Infancy
An essay in the Information, Intimacy & Immateriality series by Kira Bell “Selfhood can be understood to work like the application Google Maps— it uses so much power because it is constantly trying to assess where it (the individual) falls in relation to everything else (its community, work place, social circles).” |
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Help and Harm: Untangling Care from Violence
A review of You were born good at make die by Sidney Mullis "To help understand their paternal intergenerational trauma, each artwork grapples with how intimacy, care, and nourishment can occur directly alongside violence." |
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Representation: Display and Displacement
An essay in the Information, Intimacy & Immateriality series by Kira Bell “Since the beginning of the 24-hr news cycle, media has infiltrated our experience both in and outside the home; information envelops us like an aspic, simultaneously transparent and grotesque.” |
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You Love the Camera and the Camera Loves You
A review of Lena Chen's Camopticon installation at the Miller ICA by Elina Zhang "As sex workers try to create the conditions under which they can survive, they are perceived as a threat, one that is met with the full force of censorship, violence, and incarceration." |
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Sense and Subjectability
An essay in the Information, Intimacy & Immateriality series by Kira Bell “[There is] a logical fallacy embedded in the structure of language: how can we pretend to exist in a perfectly shared reality when our ways of defining that reality are relative?” |
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Shades of History and Identity
Studio Visit with Craft Fellowship Resident Krystal DiFronzo by Alana Wu "This dough has been a way to talk about nourishment… plant matter, to fire, to food. Dead dough is a code for support and comfort, but it’s dead. It’s not something you can actually eat; it’s a duality." |
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Information, Intimacy & Immaterialityby Kira Bell
“At first glance, a romantic approach to science or a bureaucratic approach to art seem like oxymorons. In these essays, I want to question that assumption and propose instead that multiple forms of representation working in conjunction are necessary to account for multiple forms of understanding — each no less important than another.”
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post mourning: clarity
The Latest in the Hand-Off Series by Corrine Jasmin "we can’t be foolish enough to count on forever you see, forever is a concept pinky promises are for kids but isn’t it a little fun to be naive sometimes?" |
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Extrasensory in 35mm
An editorial on Eastern Standard Photo and the future of the Bunker Review by The Editors "I think that it's about showing people that film can have a place in somebody's life, even if it's just to have a pandemic activity. Anybody can go for a walk in the woods by themselves and take pictures. It's a perfect activity." |
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Bunker Talks: Shori Sims in Conversation with Harrison Kinnane Smith
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. |
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Radial Lineage, Pittsburgh Roots
A feature on Silver Eye Center for Photography's "Radial Survey Vol. 2" by Nick Drain "...the artist transports viewers down into the tunnels with these men, where the dust that clouds the air serves as both a specter of the history it represents, and a representation of the continued obfuscation of the history depicted." |
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Alienation, Connection, Hope Within and Beyond Prison Walls
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At The Door: Placemaking and Memory at The Mattress Factory
A Feature on The Mattress Factory's exhibition, making home here by Jurgis Viningas "Njie conserves the emotion of an event in the auditory and visual matter, in an attempt to salvage it from the obscuring flow of time and from human inattention." |
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Frenetic Labor of Love
A Review of Maybe We Can Rest Here by Brigid Moser "The space serves as a potential resting ground for an exhaustive portrayal of life and labor. While the walls teem with canvases, paper, and wood panels exploding with color and rolling textures that vibrate with an energy that borders on chaotic, the gallery space holds a promise of repose."
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