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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.

Fellows are given editorial support and a $1000 honorarium. Editorial support for Critical Writing provided by Kemi Adeyemi.

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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

June 2022

Violence as Ancestral Knowledge

Ana Tuazon

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

August 2023

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)
Critical Writing Blackness Somatics

June 2023

Holding Space: Void Spa as a Site of Care and Resistance

S. Erin Batiste

written in conjunction with artists' S. Erin Batiste for A. Sef and Akeema-Zane's Session project, Void Spa.