The first volume of its kind, this double issue examines the intersections of sports, performance, popular culture, and experimental media. Features 41 contributors including artists, writers, critics, scholars, historians, and athletes.
Tag: Projects
Sports Sweatband
Custom-made, embroidered sweatband to wear to any sport event! Or while sporting. Or as a conversation starter in a non-sports setting.
Half-Fancy, Half-Jungle
An illustrated experimental essay on authenticity, postmemory, appropriation, and racial and ethnic identity (and recent cases in the art world and beyond). KQED described the commissioned chapbook as “finely wrought words.” On view at SFMOMA through Summer 2020.
Joanie 4 Jackie
The complete archives of the influential underground film network for female filmmakers has been acquired by The Getty and is now viewable online. A selection of videos is available on the Criterion Channel (2020-Present).
WOMEN INC. LEXICON
A lexicon of neologisms coining new words for a new age, one marked by advances in omnipresent technology and mass surveillance; a privatization of art, culture, and education; as well as a continued struggle with intersectional issues.
Goals
An installation superimposing the goals of six major sports, creating an actual-scale “color field” abstraction.
RIOT GRRRL CHAPTERS MAP
An online, collaborative project tracking Riot Grrrl chapters across the world, from 1991 to the present.
RIOT GRRRL CENSUS
A public survey and expanded oral history of the lasting impact, intergenerational and global, of the Riot Grrrl movement.
THE YES MEN ACTIVITY BOOK
Features activity items and other projects, essays, an interview, a poster, and full-color illustrations.
Temporary Tattoos of Real Fan Tattoos
With these temporary tattoos you aren’t just wearing some of the finest Steeler tattoos found in Pittsburgh tattoo parlors and Steelers games, but you can also “wear” another fan’s nipples, moles, and body hair if you choose.
Super Bowl Ring Gloves
You, too, can wear all the Super Bowl rings that the Pittsburgh Steelers have won, with these custom handknit gloves.
Steeler Nation Map
A new map of the world representing Steeler Nation, where countries that don’t have a fan base for the Pittsburgh NFL team don’t exist.
SYRACUSE MOUNTAINS
A full-scale graph / “mountain range” mural charting the snowfall in Syracuse over the last half century, and mounds of deicers which “melted” as winter outside progressed and visitors inside took away samples.
IN ADVANCE OF SNOW
Interactive project inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s readymade “In Advance of the Broken Arm.” As a munificent reversal of this historic Dadaist work, the display is rendered useful again, allowing visitors to borrow the commercially made tools from an art gallery in the deepest winter months.
Video Pool reviews Let’s Get Tested
“Astria Suparak’s performance […] brilliantly set up the themes of the program. Let’s Get Tested explores the schism between the methodology of science and foible-filled humanness. For the most part, the tapes affirm the value of the ineffable and the elusive: immeasurable phenomena such as playfulness and pleasure. […] Let’s hope that Suparak continues with her zealotry, criss-crossing the globe as a present-day video prophet”
HOW TO BE A CANADIAN
Utilizing artistic (re)enactment, telepathetic aesthetics, manual animation, performance and a grab bag of low-end high technologies, these videos question traditional representations of (Canadian) identity and gender.
WHAT IS SEX?
Research project that captures the conflicting ideas, fears, and hopes about sex from the early 21st century.
LTTR #2: LISTEN TRANSLATE TRANSLATE RECORD
Issue #2 of the feminist art journal LTTR, whose contents “do not conform easily to categories, and often blur the lines between art, criticism, and fiction” – Artforum
Astria Suparak 