guest blogger • guadalupe rosales

a big hello to guest blogger guadalupe rosales. throughout this week guadalupe will explore the various ways that artists employ textiles as foundation for work in other media. as she explains: "in collecting this group together, i looked for traces. i considered the qualities textiles have and therefore the ways that they could influence another medium and also the forms textiles take to presence those representations as well. how does a flowing limp thread translate into a hardened photograph, a gesture in a video or jeans painted on a naked body?" more about guadalupe here and here.

[guadalupe rosales. indigo dye. brooklyn. 2010.]

paula muhr

work by paula muhr. " a reinterpretation of medical photographs of women from the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century...through slight transition in symbolic meaning, this work aims to problematise the apparently stable visual boundary established within the medical context between the 'normal' viewer and the 'pathognomic' patient." see more here.

[all paula muhr. from the series double flowers. 2010-11.]

john menchaca

work by john menchaca. see more here.

[all john menchaca. collateral damage.]

mark menjivar

mark menjivar's 'i remember when project' collects his family's old kodachrome slides and super 8mm films and houses them as an archive in his guest bedroom closet. see more here.

[all mark menjivar. from the archives of joe font.]

meriç algün ringborg

meriç algün ringborg's 'the risk of being in public' project is "a yearlong journal containing 136 notations where each account describes a photograph taken in public by an unknown person in which the artist has noticed she appears in the background." see more here.

[all meriç algün ringborg. the risk of being in public. 2011.]

kate steciw

work by kate steciw. see more here.

[all kate steciw. from the series commodity derivatives. silver gelatin prints, dimensions variable also available as c-Prints, ink jet prints, giant wall stickers, duvet covers, couch throws, personalized kellogg's® rice krispie® treats, chenille photo pillows, photo tote bags and custom t-shirts...]

jeremy edwards

work by jeremy edwards. see more here.

[all jeremy edwards. from the series perhaps you have a real gift.]

occupy student debt

"we were told to work hard and stay in school, and that it would pay off. we are not lazy. we are not entitled. We are drowning in debt with few means of escape. we would give anything to pay our debt, but we are un(der)employed due to the jobs crisis and lack of consumer protections and refinancing rights make things extremely difficult. the student loan bubble may not burst with a bang, but it is slowly suffocating us. please share your story. we stand in solidarity with the 99 percent." see more here. contribute here.

[all from www.occupystudentdebt.com.]

after bellmer

after bellmer, launched in 2011 by cortney andrews and talia chetrit, is an online feminist quarterly of contemporary art and writing. the project is designed to create a dialogue surrounding the many facets of contemporary female identity and sexuality. see more here.

[from after bellmer online quarterly. the bellmer isssue. volume 1, issue 1. hans bellmer. la poopee. 1938.]

bryan dooley

work by bryan dooley. see more here.

[all bryan dooley. 2011. geneve. realness in space. palm studies.]

martín batallés + gabriela costoya

work by martín batallés + gabriela costoya. see more here.

[all martín batallés + gabriela costoya. from the series el mejor cumpleaños.]

lucas blalock

work by lucas blalock. see more here and here.

[all lucas blalock. top to bottom: milk maid. 2010. tire. 2011. double chimney. 2011.]

will rogan

work by will rogan. see more here.

[all will rogan. silencer (MUM). 2007. altered magazine pages. top to bottom: #2, #5, #3.]

anne de vries

work by anne de vries. see more here.

[all anne de vries. cave2cave.]

akram zaatari

work by akram zaatari. see more here.

[all akram zaatari. top to bottom: untitled. 1997/2007. souvernirs from the front. 2007. untitled. 2007.]

peter watkins + oliver shamlou

as peter watkins describes his 'wars we lost' series: "a collaborative project between the writer oliver shamlou and myself. the project followed many months of conversational toing and froing concerning the relationship between literature and photography. we were interested in the reception and validity of literature vs. the way in which we digest and receive photographs, and our relationship to both mediums in terms of reality. it was important for us to put together a project where both mediums were presented on an equal footing, and were somehow integral to the reading of the other. this represents a start point for me in exploring the close relationship literature and photography can have in our reception of artworks and reality." see more here.

[all peter watkins + oliver shamlou. from the series wars we lost. 2010.]

oraib toukan

work by oraib toukan. see more here.

[all oraib toukan. ongoing. top to bottom: may ’68, detail from a series of 70 c-type prints each 3.5 x 3.5 inch. untitled (jerash); detail from a proposed work on jordan’s exhibition of a pillar transported from jerash to new york for the 1964 world fair. from untitled (extracts), detail: images & objects, objects or images.]