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Critical Writing

The Critical Writing program commissions emerging writers to pursue the underlying themes and ideas that inform individual Session projects, initiating meaningful exchanges between artists and writers and facilitating the mutual production of new work.

Writers are given editorial support and a $1000 honorarium. Editorial support for Critical Writing provided primarily by Kemi Adeyemi, with additional guest editors.

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Critical Writing Blackness Gender Care

March 2025

A Homeplace (The Meeting Place)

Jenée-Daria Strand

written in conjunction with artist Helina Metaferia's Session project, The Meeting Place.
Critical Writing

November 2024

Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation’s Material Cause for the Immaterial

Ryan C. Clarke

written in conjunction with The School for Poetic Computation’s (SFPC)'s Session project, Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation (ECPC)

Session artist Caroline Garcia sitting in the gallery space. There is a punching bag, a wall of 3d printed weaponry, and monitors showing fight choreography. Image credit: Manuel Molina, courtesy of Recess
Session artist Caroline Garcia sitting in the gallery space. There is a punching bag, a wall of 3d printed weaponry, and monitors showing fight choreography. Image credit: Manuel Molina, courtesy of Recess
Critical Writing

November 2024

Violence as Ancestral Knowledge

Ana Tuazon

written in conjunction with Caroline Garcia's Session project, I Woke Up and Chose Violence.