C3: PUBLISHING RESIDENCY
Kelly Kirkland + tamara suarez porras
WINTER 2018-19
In collaboration with California-based arts journal Art Practical, c3:initiative is excited to announce the recipients of the 2018 Art Publishing Residency: Kelly Kirkland and tamara suarez porras. As part of the year long Art Practical residency, writers travel to Portland for a week long immersion into the Portland arts community. Read more about the Art Practical residency and how to apply.
ABOUT THE RESIDENTS
Kelly Kirkland recently returned to her hometown of San Francisco after graduating from Occidental College with a degree in art history. Having primarily worked in museums, she is excited to broaden the scope of her arts advocacy and invest more directly in the Bay Area's creative community.
My thematic concentration will focus on spatial/environmental works (installation, sculpture, or conversations across media), with particular interest in the way that the art “takes up” cultural/physical/social space. In current political language, the phrase “taking up space” expands beyond the literal. For historically marginalized bodies, to take up a space differs from merely occupying one (although mere presence in a space from which one has been excluded is a powerful thing). Taking space involves active negotiation, intervention, and reclamation – all of which, I believe, are key elements of installation art. By centering the theme of navigation with a focus on emerging artists my hope is to inspire Art Practical readers to examine their own environments critically and consider the possibilities of radical space.
tamara suarez porras is an artist, writer, and educator from (south) Brooklyn, NY and currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores fluid relationships of time, memory, and history through a photo-conceptual, research-centric practice that engages with the possibilities of archives. She has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, School at the International Center of Photography, En Foco Touring Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York City, as well as fusedspace and Embark Gallery in San Francisco. tamara is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography + Imaging and Journalism and from California College of the Arts with a dual MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies.
For the New Takes column, I would like to cover photography-based practices connected to the Bay Area. I specify “connected to” instead of “based in,” given that many artists who have had a significant presence within the Bay Area may no longer be based in the region but are still significant to the conversation of photographic work within the Bay. This would include artists who studied in the Bay Area or were longtime residents. To further focus on the region, I propose writing about work that was either made while in the Bay Area or has been exhibited here in some significant way (i.e. solo show or large prominent group show). I am interested in finding links between those working at various stages of their careers, to find common threads among emerging and mid-career artists who may not be readily discussed together.
This column presents an opportunity to engage with the Bay Area’s rich photographic history and tradition, while also presenting new takes on what photography in the Bay Area is today. I am interested in emerging artists who are thinking expansively about photography, subverting the medium’s traditions and boundaries. Therefore, I also propose the possibility for an extension to other media, including lens-based practices like video, film, and live cinema performance, since these are often within the scope of artists primarily working in photography and the media are akin to one another.
WINTER 2018-19
In collaboration with California-based arts journal Art Practical, c3:initiative is excited to announce the recipients of the 2018 Art Publishing Residency: Kelly Kirkland and tamara suarez porras. As part of the year long Art Practical residency, writers travel to Portland for a week long immersion into the Portland arts community. Read more about the Art Practical residency and how to apply.
ABOUT THE RESIDENTS
Kelly Kirkland recently returned to her hometown of San Francisco after graduating from Occidental College with a degree in art history. Having primarily worked in museums, she is excited to broaden the scope of her arts advocacy and invest more directly in the Bay Area's creative community.
My thematic concentration will focus on spatial/environmental works (installation, sculpture, or conversations across media), with particular interest in the way that the art “takes up” cultural/physical/social space. In current political language, the phrase “taking up space” expands beyond the literal. For historically marginalized bodies, to take up a space differs from merely occupying one (although mere presence in a space from which one has been excluded is a powerful thing). Taking space involves active negotiation, intervention, and reclamation – all of which, I believe, are key elements of installation art. By centering the theme of navigation with a focus on emerging artists my hope is to inspire Art Practical readers to examine their own environments critically and consider the possibilities of radical space.
tamara suarez porras is an artist, writer, and educator from (south) Brooklyn, NY and currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work explores fluid relationships of time, memory, and history through a photo-conceptual, research-centric practice that engages with the possibilities of archives. She has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, School at the International Center of Photography, En Foco Touring Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York City, as well as fusedspace and Embark Gallery in San Francisco. tamara is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography + Imaging and Journalism and from California College of the Arts with a dual MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies.
For the New Takes column, I would like to cover photography-based practices connected to the Bay Area. I specify “connected to” instead of “based in,” given that many artists who have had a significant presence within the Bay Area may no longer be based in the region but are still significant to the conversation of photographic work within the Bay. This would include artists who studied in the Bay Area or were longtime residents. To further focus on the region, I propose writing about work that was either made while in the Bay Area or has been exhibited here in some significant way (i.e. solo show or large prominent group show). I am interested in finding links between those working at various stages of their careers, to find common threads among emerging and mid-career artists who may not be readily discussed together.
This column presents an opportunity to engage with the Bay Area’s rich photographic history and tradition, while also presenting new takes on what photography in the Bay Area is today. I am interested in emerging artists who are thinking expansively about photography, subverting the medium’s traditions and boundaries. Therefore, I also propose the possibility for an extension to other media, including lens-based practices like video, film, and live cinema performance, since these are often within the scope of artists primarily working in photography and the media are akin to one another.
Sarah Hwang + Audrey Molloy
FALL 2017
In collaboration with California-based arts journal Art Practical, c3:initiative is excited to announce the recipients of the inaugural Art Publishing Residency: Audrey Molloy (Nashville, Tennessee) and Sarah Hwang (San Leandro, California).
Over the course of two months, Audrey and Sarah will engage with all aspects of art publishing, including critical mentorship, editing, and attendance to DSAP staff meetings. Upon successful completion of the residency, the Art Publishing Residents will travel to c3:Initiative in Portland, Oregon, to research and write about the regional arts community. These up and coming critical voices will spend a week engaged in visits to artists studios and Portland's many contemporary exhibiting institutions.
FALL 2017
In collaboration with California-based arts journal Art Practical, c3:initiative is excited to announce the recipients of the inaugural Art Publishing Residency: Audrey Molloy (Nashville, Tennessee) and Sarah Hwang (San Leandro, California).
Over the course of two months, Audrey and Sarah will engage with all aspects of art publishing, including critical mentorship, editing, and attendance to DSAP staff meetings. Upon successful completion of the residency, the Art Publishing Residents will travel to c3:Initiative in Portland, Oregon, to research and write about the regional arts community. These up and coming critical voices will spend a week engaged in visits to artists studios and Portland's many contemporary exhibiting institutions.
PROGRAM UPDATES
Check out the writings produced by the residents during the program.
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Cybele Lyle: Lured to the Local
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, "Troubling Disappearance": (Re-)Constructing Remanants
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Sofía Córdova vs. The Machine
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Cybele Lyle: Lured to the Local
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Once at Present: Contemporary Art of Bay Area Iranian Diaspora at Minnesota Street Project
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Exotify Elsewhere Pt. II at SWIM Gallery
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Fold, Staple, Embrace: The Body Alive in the Archive
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, This Land Is Not Neutral: Georgina Reskala and Dionne Lee
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Slow Burn: Young Suh's Widfires
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Fold, Staple, Embrace: The Body Alive in the Archive
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Light, Paper, Process: Alternative Process and Experimental Photography at the Mills Building
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Jennifer Brandon and Andreanne Michon at SF Camerawork
Read Sarah Hwang's feature, An Empty Identifier: In Criticism of "Asian American" as Curatorial Construct.
Check out the writings produced by the residents during the program.
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Cybele Lyle: Lured to the Local
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, "Troubling Disappearance": (Re-)Constructing Remanants
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Sofía Córdova vs. The Machine
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Cybele Lyle: Lured to the Local
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Once at Present: Contemporary Art of Bay Area Iranian Diaspora at Minnesota Street Project
Read Kelly Kirkland's feature, Exotify Elsewhere Pt. II at SWIM Gallery
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Fold, Staple, Embrace: The Body Alive in the Archive
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, This Land Is Not Neutral: Georgina Reskala and Dionne Lee
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Slow Burn: Young Suh's Widfires
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Fold, Staple, Embrace: The Body Alive in the Archive
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Light, Paper, Process: Alternative Process and Experimental Photography at the Mills Building
Read tamara suarez porras's feature, Jennifer Brandon and Andreanne Michon at SF Camerawork
Read Sarah Hwang's feature, An Empty Identifier: In Criticism of "Asian American" as Curatorial Construct.