June 2020 residency thematic:

"Social Abstraction"

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“I think there are other ways of looking through abstraction. To use the whole social fabric of our society as a point of departure for abstraction reanimates it, dusts it off. It becomes really interesting to me, and supercharged. I just find that chilling and amazing.”

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- Mark Bradford

What is Social Abstraction?

Articles: Judith Butler, April 30th Mourning is a political act amid the pandemic and its disparities

                Sarah Lewis, May 1st  Where are the photos of people dying of COVID?

          Paul Chan  May 15th    Letter to Young Artists During a Pandemic 

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"Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower"

Rainer Maria Rilke

Listen

Quiet friend who has come so far,

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feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

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what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

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In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

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And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.