WORKS
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PRESS
- KLUB WRKR in Conversation
- lumpen radio interview: RAISIN
- Sixty Inches from Center: Review of RAISIN at 6018North
- WBEZ Chicago: ‘Raisin’ Exhibit Brings Seminal Chicago Play To Live
- e-flux Education: Portable Gray issue 6: Another Idea Exhibition Catalog
- Humanity in Action: Landecker Fellow Asha Iman Veal Announces Participating Artists for Upcoming ‘Raisin’ Exhibition
- In Practice: UChicago Arts Blog: Whoa de Whoa: The Gray Center’s “Another Idea” Comes To A Close
- In Practice: UChicago Arts Blog: Lunar Snails and Galactic Cocktails: Throwing a House Party on the Moon
- Mousse Magazine: “Another Idea: an actual conceptual art exhibition” at Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
- Newcity Art: One Recommendation: July 2020
- Art Monthly, No. 434, March 2020: Letter from Chicago: Sweet Water by Agnieszka Gratza
- Sixty Inches From Center: New Political Imaginaries at the table: Interview with Kyle Bellucci Johanson
- Bad at Sports, Episode 671: table projects with Gregory Bae and Kyle Bellucci Johanson
- Art Institute Chicago: Perspectives: Tagging Along with a TEAM of Kids
- Imaginaries of the Future Symposium at CSUN and the MAIN Museum
- e-flux Education: Quantum Unlearning
- Hyperallergic: Inventive Responses to Labor and Immigration Issues at Human Resources
- Temporary Art Review: Making Plans at Human Resources
- Minneapolis Star Tribune: Bits and pieces of the zeitgeist in a new SooVAC show
- Minneaplis Public Radio News: Art Hounds: David Rathman, Steffani Jemison, and a glimpse into a schizophrenic mind
PUBLICATIONS
- No Necessary Correspondence exhibition catalog
- Portable Gray, Vol 4, No. 1, Spring 2021: Another Idea exhibition catalog
- Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Juniorprofessur und dann noch Habilitation: sinnvoll oder absurd?
- Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Formatwechsel. Zur Methodendebatte
- Writing for Sweaty Scales by Liang Luscombe
- Making Plans exhibition catalog essay
curtain call-out couture:
i am afraid isn’t just the way it is
February 08—March 14, 2020
Bill’s Auto
curtain call-out couture: i am afraid isn’t just the way it is is an installation composed of a graphite drawing and a commodity who speaks in a waiting room shielded from electromagnetic radiation. Toni gave us a place to sit and rest, somewhere between love and paranoia, subject and object, thinking and feeling, for a little polite theater.
This site-responsive work meditates on various roles anxiety plays regarding cultural hegemony, Antonio Gramsci’s theory describing how the state and ruling capitalist class use cultural institutions and ideology to maintain power. How has daily social life and cultural production within social networks and virtual environments advanced these tactics? Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so that they become the “common sense” values of all and thus maintain the status quo. In an age of climate crisis, identitarian violence, media influencers, hyper-surveillance, and universal debt, has anxiety become “common sense?” and if so, what’s love got to do with it?
Materials:
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Electromagnetic radiation-shielding aluminum faraday cage
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Millennial pink curtain in Soft&Safe™ electromagnetic shielding fabric
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256 anxieties collected from an anonymous survey posted to the artist’s social media platforms as well as the artist’s own anxieties. (on and under a ground of BEHR© MARQUEE one-coat interior latex in New Age Blue with a wash of white) / whispered entries recorded on and played through an iPhone / acrylic on canvas, 47 inches square / 4 hours 53 minutes 44 seconds on a loop
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Graphite drawing of a love letter (a composite text sourced from 22 letters written by the artist to loved ones, inspired in part by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s essay “Facing the Challenge of a New Age” published in 1957), 36 inches square
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Toni’s chair