Previous article FreeContributorsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreZarouhie Abdalian lives and works in her native New Orleans. Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; LAXART, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Secession, Vienna; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.Carris Adams is an artist currently based in Houston, Texas. Her work explores the signs/signifiers that mark our landscapes. Through the materiality of painting, drawing, and printmaking, Adams attempts to embody the sense, shape, and experience of these markers. Her work describes the appearance of subjects found during her day-to-day travels, while also reflecting the various social, cultural, political, and economic circumstances under which we labor. Adams received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2013) and her MFA from the University of Chicago (2015). Adams's work has been exhibited at venues throughout the United States.Victor Burgin* is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Burgin’s theory books include Parallel Texts (2011), Situational Aesthetics (2009), The Remembered Film (2004), In/Different Spaces (1996), The End of Art Theory (1986), and Thinking Photography (1982). Monographs on his visual work include Psychical Realism: The Work of Victor Burgin (2020), Victor Burgin’s Parzival in Leuven (2017), Scripts (2016), Projective (2015), Components of a Practice (2008), and Between (2020/1986).Julia Eckhardt is a musician and organizer in the field of the sonic arts. She is a founding member and artistic co-director of Q-O2 workspace in Brussels, for which she conceptualized various thematic research projects. As a performer of composed and improvised music, she has collaborated with numerous artists, and extensively with Eliane Radigue. She lectures on topics such as sound, gender, and public space, and is (co-)author of The Second Sound: Conversation on Gender and Music, Grounds for Possible Music, The Middle Matter: Sound as Interstice, and Éliane Radigue: Intermediary Spaces/Espaces intermediaries.Based in Detroit, artist Chelsea A. Flowers holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2017) and a BFA (2013) from Denison University in Studio Art with a concentration in Black Studies. She has shown work and performed at various galleries including Wave Pool Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), ACRE Projects Space (Chicago, IL), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), Fjord Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Red Bull Arts (Detroit, MI), Roots and Culture (Chicago, IL), and Trout Museum (Appleton, WI). Her practice explores subversion to popular culture, how “otherness” is created through social and cultural critique of her environment. She explores these ideas through comedy troupes, physical play, nostalgic memorabilia, and participatory performance.Theaster Gates* lives and works in Chicago. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory and land development, sculpture and performance. Drawing on his interest and training in urban planning and preservation, Gates redeems spaces that have been left behind. Known for his recirculation of art-world capital, Gates creates work that focuses on the possibility of the “life within things.” Gates smartly upturns art values, land values, and human values. In all aspects of his work, he contends with the notion of Black space as a formal exercise – one defined by collective desire, artistic agency, and the tactics of a pragmatist. Gates has exhibited and performed worldwide. He was the winner of the Artes Mundi 6 prize and a recipient of the Légion d'Honneur in 2017. He was awarded the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2018, as well as the Urban Land Institute’s J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. Gates is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College and serves as the Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean. He is also Director of Artists Initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art.Liam Gillick is an artist based in New York. His work exposes the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a globalized, neo-liberal consensus, and extends into structural rethinking of the exhibition as a form. He has produced a number of short films since the late 2000s which address the construction of the creative persona in light of the enduring mutability of the contemporary artist as a cultural figure: Margin Time (2012); The Heavenly Lagoon (2013); and Hamilton: A Film by Liam Gillick (2014). He is also the author of a number of books including a volume of his selected critical writing and Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820 (Columbia University Press, 2016). Gillick’s work has been included in numerous important international group exhibitions as well as in solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate in London. Gillick’s work is held in many important public collections. Over the last twenty five years Gillick has also been a prolific writer and critic of contemporary art, contributing to Artforum, October, Frieze, and e-flux Journal. Throughout this time Gillick has extended his practice into experimental venues and collaborative projects with artists including Philippe Parreno, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Lawler, Adam Pendleton, and in a series of concerts with the band New Order held in Manchester, Turin, and Vienna.Renée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker known for her highly layered and formally complex multimedia installations in which ideas, perception, and experience are examined from myriad perspectives. Through films, essays and writings, installations, digital media, architecture, sound-related works, film series, and events, her work engages with explorations into circuits of relation and exchange over time, the gaps and shifts in what survives in public and private memories, as well as what has been imagined and invented. Her exhibitions, videos, and films have been seen throughout the world in museums and art institutions, biennials, and festivals. A prolific writer, a selection of Green’s scripts has been collected in her books Other Planes of There: Selected Writings (Duke University Press, 2014), Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010), and Shadows and Signals (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2000).Susan Hiller (1940–2019) was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and was based mainly in London since the early 1960s. After studying film and photography at The Cooper Union and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College in New York, Hiller went on to a National Science Foundation fellowship in anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans. Her career has been recognized by several survey exhibitions between 1986 and 2020. Hiller's work features in numerous international private and public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Gallery, London, UK, and the Centro de Arte Contemporanea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil.Kyle Bellucci Johanson completed a BA in Reconciliation Studies and Art from Bethel University in 2009. In 2008 he studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and completed an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in 2016. Kyle was a 2015 founding fellow of at land’s edge, an artist-led, autonomous, and experimental platform focused on intergenerational mentorship and engaged programming in communityrun spaces across east and south Los Angeles. In 2018 Kyle opened table, a temporary project space dedicated to situating artists’ practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. Currently, he is an adjunct assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kyle’s work has recently been on view at Bill’s Auto (Chicago, IL), Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon (MOCAM), Automata (Los Angeles, CA), Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), ALTES FINANZAMT (Berlin, Germany), Centro Cultural Metropolitano – MET Quito (Quito, Ecuador), and Human Resources (Los Angeles, CA).Gloria Maximo lives and works in Queens, NY. Her work has been presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music; Simone Subal Gallery, New York; Metro Pictures, New York; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; The [email protected], Santa Monica, CA; The Queens Museum; and MoMA PS1, New York, among others.Devin T. Mays holds a BBA in International Business and Marketing from Howard University. After receiving his degree, he worked in advertising developing brand strategies and commercials for the better part of a decade. He returned to school to pursue an MFA (2016) in studio practice from the University of Chicago. There, he developed an interdisciplinary practice he often refers to as an investigation of the infinite, a practice-in-participation, a practice-in-practice. Since then, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida; Nahmad Projects, London; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Regards Chicago; and the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, among others.Antoni Miralda*, a native of Barcelona, began working with food in Paris in 1967. He moved to New York in 1971 where he created public art, banquets, and parades involving large groups and community participation. Representative works and exhibitions include Diner en quatre couleurs with Dorothée Selz, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris (1970); Soldats Soldés, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (1971); Movable Feast, Ninth-Avenue Festival, New York (1974); Feast für Leda, Documenta 6, Kassel (1977); Breadline, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1977); Wheat and Steak, Kansas City (1981); Honeymoon, Spanish Pavilion, 44 Venice Biennale (1990); Santa Comida, Museo del Barrio, New York, and Magiciens de la Terre, Paris; El Internacional Tapas Bar & Restaurant with Montse Guillen, New York (1984–86). Miralda and Montse Guillen started the FoodCultura—archives, collections, and global projects—in Miami and Barcelona.Pope.L* is a visual artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice uses binaries, contraries, and preconceived notions embedded within contemporary culture to create artworks in various formats, for example, writing, painting, performance, installation, video, and sculpture. Building upon his long history of enacting arduous, provocative, absurdist performances and interventions in public spaces, Pope.L applies some of the same social, formal, and performative strategies to his interests in language, system, gender, race, and community. The goals for his work are several: joy, money, and uncertainty—not necessarily in that order.Cauleen Smith* is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. Her films, objects, and installations have been featured in several group exhibitions. She has had solo shows for her films and installations at The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Threewalls, Chicago. She shows her drawings and 2D work with Corbett vs. Dempsey. Smith is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Film /Video, Chicago 3Arts Grant, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Chicago Expo Artadia Award, and Rauschenberg Residency. She earned a BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater Film and Television. Smith is based in the great city of Los Angeles and serves as faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.Mami Takahashi is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist, who integrates traditional and contemporary approaches in ideas, methods, and media to address perspectives on foreignness and Americanness. As a non-native English user in the U.S., she often incorporates her English usage into her visual practice. She shares the struggle non-native English speakers face when communicating with firstlanguage speakers, and the limits imposed through these interactions. Takahashi uses multiple methods of art-making such as painting, craft-making, digital photographs and video, performance and audio, often creating large-scale installations that explore the boundaries in the social norms between cultures.Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. His writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies, and monographs. He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, and Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous (MIT Press/Afterall Books 2006), Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want (Sternberg Press, Berlin/Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam 2010), with Michael Stevenson: Animal Spirits — Fables in the Parlance of Our Time (Christoph Keller Editions, JRP, Zurich 2013), Cookie! (Sternberg Press, Berlin/Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam 2014). He edited No New Kind of Duck— Would I Know how to Say what I Do? (Diaphanes & UdK Graduate School, Zurich-Berlin 2016), with Daniel Pies: What if It Won’t Stop Here? (Archive Books & UdK Graduate School, Berlin 2018), and, with Polys Peslikas: Umm Kulthum Faints on Stage (Sternberg Press, Berlin and Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture 2020).Philip von Zweck is an artist and a painter who lives and works in Chicago, IL. Solo projects and exhibitions include Performa11/ INVISIBLE-EXPORTS; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; 65GRAND; Threewalls; The Storefront; Gallery 400; Medicine Cabinet (all Chicago). From 1995 to 2010 he was the host of the weekly sound art radio program “Something Else” (WLUW, FM, Chicago) and from 2003 to 2006 was co-founder/executive producer of the radio art collective Blind Spot. With Anthony Elms he co-curated the exhibitions “Can Bigfoot Get You a Beer” at Alagon Gallery, Chicago, and “A Unicorn Basking in the Light of Three Glowing Suns” at DeVos Museum, Marquette, Michigan. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently serves as the President of Thornberry, producer of the world's finest doorstops. He is represented by 65GRAND.Gillian Wearing was born in 1963 in Birmingham, England. After settling in London in 1983, she studied at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London, earning a BFA in 1990. City Racing in London hosted her first solo exhibition in 1993. In her photographs and videos, Wearing records the confessions and interactions of ordinary people she befriends through chance encounters. Her work explores the differences between public and private life, the individual and society, voyeurism and exhibitionism, and fiction and fact. She has described her method as “editing life” and has acknowledged as influences Michael Apted’s ongoing series of documentaries Seven Up, begun in 1964, and Franc Roddam and Paul Watson’s The Family (1974), a popular British television program. In its candor and psychological intensity, Wearing’s work extends the traditions of photographic portraiture initiated by August Sander, Walker Evans, and Diane Arbus. Likewise, her oeuvre may be understood as an artworld harbinger of reality television.* Indicates recipient of the Andrew Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Portable Gray Volume 4, Number 1Spring 2021Another Idea: Exhibition Catalogue Published for the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/715574 Views: 173 © 2021 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.