Issue #3–COLLECT
With the powerful and frightening rise of artificial intelligence, to governments and corporations collecting personal data, to the human compulsion to gather and arrange, we collect daily. Issue #3–Collect will wander through various assemblages within space and investigate the multitude of ways we collect and order our world.
OUR CONTENT
Each issue of our magazine includes Art Files, Stories, Space Futures, Interviews, and Essays.
Bad Romance
“I am heartbroken but I am free now”
This was the first thing Aunty Seah said to me the day after her partner Uncle Chan passed away from a sudden heart attack. It was the beginning of the pandemic lockdown.
Collection and Presence
Michelle Chun is a visual maker born and raised in Southern California.
Collage as Therapeutic Care: The Emergence of the Kanyer Art Collection | Interview with Laurie Kanyer
Laurie Kanyer is an art collector, author of five books, publisher, artist, and retired counselor.
Genevieve Gaignard’s Ecosystem of Collecting
Genevieve Gaignard is a multidisciplinary artist that splits her time between her hometown in Massachusetts and Los Angeles.
“Eureka!” Food, Craft, and Revisionist History: An Interview with Kedrick McKenzie
By combining quotidian craft practices with ephemeral materials, Kedrick McKenzie challenges the subjective ways that histories about America are told.
Recognition
E. C. is a director, poet, writer and actor, and remains curious, very curious.
Art Files: Joey Serricchio
Joey Serricchio is a Los Angeles-based artist making conceptual art in a variety of interdisciplinary mediums.
“What is my inner landscape?” An Interview with Zoë Welsh
Zoë Welsh was born in Wilkinsburg, PA and received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2016. She currently works out of her studio at Radiant Hall Studios in Pittsburgh, PA. Zoë creates mixed media paintings based on her interest in translating mental space into symbolic landscape.
The Gentrification of South Central Los Angeles
A city’s attempt to clean up a region’s reputation caused the displacement of its people.
Unfinished matter(s)’ a concrete hut | Space Futures
As an architect and curator, Hugo Santos Silva’s practice is an investigation of situations that look at the meaning of a place recognized by a prospective body, which produces events and sensory mechanics.
Art Files: Alex Gabriel
Alex Gabriel’s work is an art practice as a generative method to create space for questions held in somatic, cultural and ecological bodies.
Art Files: Aaron Schraeter
Aaron Schraeter’s work explores creative reuse as a launchpad to make images and objects that reflect his experience as a lifelong city dweller.
Bubble Bath Bonding
Andrea Miranda’s current artworks embody a saturated world of bold designs, striking interweaving patterns and an all-around message of infinite love.
Art Files: Sarah Fuller
Sarah Fuller is interested in art, anthropology, nature, communication and social justice. Fuller works mostly in the medium of linocut printmaking.
Inside India's Digital Panopticon
Philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the architectural structure called panopticon, a circular prison with cells arranged around a central tower for the supervisor to constantly observe the inmates without being seen himself.
Art Files: Lydia Moore
Within Moore’s work, they love to poke fun at serious subjects, such as sex and love, feminism, fatphobia, religion and mental illness.
A Mediterranean Matriarch
Effie Spence is an actor, filmmaker and writer. Her style of art highlights the ridiculousness of life and her love of it.
Art Files: Liberty Worth
Liberty Worth is a native of Los Angeles – a city of grit, diversity and great natural beauty. Influenced by the power of art and nature to soothe trauma and bring peace, she creates works that reflect natural wonder and quiet beauty from both new and discarded or repurposed materials.