"S. O. SF!" - Save our San Francisco! - is a timely analysis of an upcoming installation, Dada@Sea, as part of the Dada World Fair coming to San Francisco in November, 2016. Looking back to dada's initiation one hundred years ago, this interactive, site-specific and multi-faceted installation contrasts the typical historical and institutionalized dada recreated performances, publications, and exhibitions.
Read MoreFounded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive is the inspiration for this collaborative piece with Michelle Krasowski, a former staff member at the IA, which unearths questions about the politics, ideological implications and cultural shifts that digital archives pose when understanding knowledge and information in the 21st century.
Read MoreThe space of appearance works through logics of resistance and survival, through which a form is iterated, lost, and (re)affirmed–remaining in the transformative. How does the work of art demand that one surrender–or dissolve–oneself into the unknowable?
Read MoreDISSOLVE Magazine SF is an online publication focusing on arts criticism and discourse with the aim to foster the work of emerging writers, cultural theorists, and artists that are passionate about attending to the unseen and the unknown.
Dissolve is pleased to share the release of our most recently printed book, The Demise of Alice by Evelyn Grace Vex. Vex is the pen name of Grace Hannah Perez, an author and artist from Southern California. The novel—a noir mystery set against the backdrop of New Orleans in the late 1920s—was edited by Christopher Squier and Jackie Valle and published by Dissolve in hardcover in February 2024.
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