April 04, 2018

Slicing History: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai’s performative lectures and collages

April 04, 2018/ Dissolve

Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Kathryn Barulich

A survey of the work of LA-based artist Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai made through a collaborative process of interviews and text exchanges between Kathryn Barulich and the artist. Focusing on Prima's performative lectures and collages, the essay looks to the breakdown of structures of power by its symbols. Prima opens up an alternative future archive made outside of a patriarchal model.

September 28, 2017

Shaghayegh Cyrous with Kathryn Barulich and Christopher Squier (time/difference: Part I)

September 28, 2017/ Dissolve

Dissolve interviews Shaghayegh Cyrous, curator of Eleven and a Half Hours(Aggregate Space Gallery), an exhibition focused on how Iranian and American residents carry on living despite varying levels of political turmoil that maintain a state of unrest. The collaboration between Dionne Lee and Shirin Abedinirad, two female artists in parallel political and geographical locations, showcases an attempt to resist the law of inertia by entering into a conversation and sharing experiences of discomfort in a sanctioned world.

September 20, 2017

Interview with Cathy Lu at Recology

September 20, 2017/ Dissolve

“I've done clay residencies before, and that's difficult in other ways, but you buy the clay—you use the clay. And whatever you do, maybe there's other stuff with the clay, but you're gonna use clay. Whereas here it could just be anything, and it’s really challenging to not be in control.”

September 20, 2017

Interview with Erik Scollon at Recology

September 20, 2017/ Dissolve

"I have to make this work right because I can’t go shopping for more of this. There's no jacket store, this is it. And that paralyzed me for just a little bit. When I'm working with clay it's easy to just go get more, or just recycle what you've got. Just smash it back down and its clay again."

May 11, 2017

Why and How to Collect Art

May 11, 2017/ Dissolve Magazine

In the wake their first Young Collectors Club meeting (April 28, 2017), Dissolve’s Kathryn Barulich interviews the co-founders of R/SF projects Lauren Licata, Anička Vrána-Godwin, and Kaitlin Trataris, on their latest undertaking, the collecting community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and why and how we should be supporting emerging contemporary art.

February 09, 2017

Footnotes on the Ostrich Feather Wedding Dress Project: Wearing the Beast

February 09, 2017/ Dissolve

Easton and Stevens invited thirteen artists to respond to an ostrich feather wedding dress as a material and symbol: its textures, terrors, and broader connotations. In the process, the project became an experiment in a symbol’s potential to shift its meaning across contexts, uses, and purposes and to become newly defined, enigmatic, or irregular through the transformations of the artists involved.

August 13, 2016

Dada@Sea: An Interview with Frederick Young

August 13, 2016/ Dissolve

A full transcript of Kathryn Barulich's interview with Frederick Young provides more information on the Dada@Sea project, as well as the collaborator's future plans.

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