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CANNIBALISTIC CULTURE WORKERS
Sometimes the best way to find out is to fuck around.
Sometimes the best way to find out is to fuck around.
Maybe it's time for a new kind of work.
A conversation with theatermaker Agnes Borinsky.
Did the relationship sour or was the deal always bad?
Better to suffer with friends.
The outset of a broad and searching investigation.
The last issue without a paywall.
What we talk about when we talk about broken financial structures.
An expanded critique of the Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition, which is a neither a coalition nor a functional organization.
Those who contribute vital resources must be sufficiently compensated before the fruits of their labor are redirected to other causes.
We're now offering discounted sessions for individuals and groups. Also some words on the state of the creative economy.
Throwing 2023 into the dumpster fire where it belongs and praying that 2024 is a few shades less intense even though it probably won’t be.
We recommend distrust, skepticism, and a take-no-prisoners approach when dealing with anything that is not a nonprofit but acts like one.
The international art cadre’s indisputable ties to right-wing political movements shows itself once again.
If you don't get an adequate cash payment, it's not an opportunity.
A quick glimpse at the core of our Graham Foundation application.
The "desired-into" and "gelatinity" explored during the kickoff of our open-work weekend sessions.
Our intensive begins next week. In the meantime, writing we published elsewhere.
The studio announces its first two-week summer intensive featuring guest speakers from across the visual arts.
An interlude for the wicked who need rest.
Taking a deeper look at the Graham Foundation and our grant programming about the nonprofit organization.
Grant workshops and seminars tailored to the forthcoming Graham Foundation application cycle.
The zombified, post-studio entity proves it is no longer necessary to maintain a studio so much as act as if one could and does.
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is a writing workshop that helps artists produce genre-defying supplementary materials to describe and contextualize their practice.
MONEY WOES prepares artists to recognize economic violence and develop financial independence in an industry filled with cloying, privileged assholes.
What is a grant workshop going to do for me when these art organizations are cosplaying as broke?
On the joys of physical labor and sleeping on the work couch.
Returning to the material world.
If upward social mobility is impossible, can we at least increase our freedoms and cash flow?
Enter the Soft Rebrand. The key here is that you’re just decorating. Structurally everything is the same, and that sucks, but it’s also not your responsibility to fix the world or spearhead the revolution.
That means learning to live with the glaring contradiction that is online life and learning how, why, and when to shut it off. But not as a means of escape; instead, to remind ourselves that discomfort, like sickness, is unavoidable.
When we feel stuck or unable to proceed with a creative project, it's likely because we've decided, albeit unconsciously, that we’re unwilling to change how we feel about its current form.
DISPASSION is a newsletter in which digital media researcher Evan Kleekamp practices emotional detachment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paperwork, 2019. Evan Kleekamp. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Untitled print; pencil drawings and xerox studies derived from Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up; a limited edition R.H. Quaytman insert from October #168; and notes in response to Quaytman’
DISPASSION is a monthly newsletter in which digital media researcher Evan Kleekamp [https://twitter.com/Kleekamp] practices emotional detachment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital photograph of sculptural experiments in my last studio circa April 2021. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earlier this year, wanting to revisit the subjects that had held my attention until the Covid-19 pandemi