Redaction
Redaction looms large in the War of Words. Words are ingested, negated, excised, crossed out, sliced and melted. It’s not as though we set out to do this, it just happened to work out that way. Interesting. Over the next few posts I’d like to explore this idea a bit by sharing with you some […]
Out there (1)
Out there: in which we dig up War of Words related works. Exactly! (More or less.) Found at melbochner.net —Diane
War of Words: Welcome
Welcome Proteoscope readers and users of words. For the duration of War of Words, I’ll be posting a series of ideas and images related to some of the questions that “triggered” this exhibition… Why is the language of war so prevalent in our everyday conversation? How does language represent thought? Are we hard-wired to understand […]
Borderland Crossings & Liminal Zones with Duke Riley
On November 14, Proteus Gowanus hosted a talk by artist Duke Riley. This Migration event was held in conjunction with Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice program. For these two groups of interest, Duke chose to speak in depth about the research and process of two of recent works, “Reclaiming the Lost Kingdom of […]
