ODE TO SELF-EMPLOYMENT
The outset of a broad and searching investigation.
Archive
A collection of 29 issues
LIFE AFTER LIFE
The last issue without a paywall.
REST IN PEACE
What we talk about when we talk about broken financial structures.
A CRITIQUE OF THE LOS ANGELES VISUAL ARTS COALITION
An expanded critique of the Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition, which is a neither a coalition nor a functional organization.
EQUITY BEFORE DISTRIBUTION
Those who contribute vital resources must be sufficiently compensated before the fruits of their labor are redirected to other causes.
ON CONSOLIDATED MUTUAL AID
We're now offering discounted sessions for individuals and groups. Also some words on the state of the creative economy.
TIME RESUMES
Throwing 2023 into the dumpster fire where it belongs and praying that 2024 is a few shades less intense even though it probably won’t be.
RESIDENCY AS WHITENESS ENHANCER
We recommend distrust, skepticism, and a take-no-prisoners approach when dealing with anything that is not a nonprofit but acts like one.
FUCK ARTFORUM
The international art cadre’s indisputable ties to right-wing political movements shows itself once again.
THE GUARANTEED NON-OPPORTUNITY
If you don't get an adequate cash payment, it's not an opportunity.
APPLICATION SAMPLE
A quick glimpse at the core of our Graham Foundation application.
ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE TRAUMA BEGONE
The "desired-into" and "gelatinity" explored during the kickoff of our open-work weekend sessions.
ACTIVITY THAT CLEARS THE MIND
Our intensive begins next week. In the meantime, writing we published elsewhere.
IS MY BODY MEANT TO BE READ?
The studio announces its first two-week summer intensive featuring guest speakers from across the visual arts.
NOTES ON PRACTICE
An interlude for the wicked who need rest.
THEY MAKE HELL EXACTLY LIKE THEY USED TO
Taking a deeper look at the Graham Foundation and our grant programming about the nonprofit organization.
ARCHITECTURE FOR THE .00002 PERCENT
Grant workshops and seminars tailored to the forthcoming Graham Foundation application cycle.
ODE TO ZOMBIFICATION
The zombified, post-studio entity proves it is no longer necessary to maintain a studio so much as act as if one could and does.
THE GHOST IS A MACHINE
WE BELIEVE IN WITCHCRAFT is a writing workshop that helps artists produce genre-defying supplementary materials to describe and contextualize their practice.
VIOLENCE WITH A SMILE
MONEY WOES prepares artists to recognize economic violence and develop financial independence in an industry filled with cloying, privileged assholes.
ALWAYS A TIME TO CURB YOUR INSTITUTION
What is a grant workshop going to do for me when these art organizations are cosplaying as broke?
CATCHING ZEDS
On the joys of physical labor and sleeping on the work couch.
GROWING PAINS
Returning to the material world.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
If upward social mobility is impossible, can we at least increase our freedoms and cash flow?
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Enter the Soft Rebrand. The key here is that you’re just decorating. Structurally everything is the same, and that sucks, but it’s also not your responsibility to fix the world or spearhead the revolution.
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That means learning to live with the glaring contradiction that is online life and learning how, why, and when to shut it off. But not as a means of escape; instead, to remind ourselves that discomfort, like sickness, is unavoidable.
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When we feel stuck or unable to proceed with a creative project, it's likely because we've decided, albeit unconsciously, that we’re unwilling to change how we feel about its current form.
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DISPASSION is a newsletter in which digital media researcher Evan Kleekamp practices emotional detachment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paperwork, 2019. Evan Kleekamp. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Untitled print; pencil drawings and xerox studies derived from Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up; a limited edition R.H. Quaytman insert from October #168; and notes in response to Quaytman’
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DISPASSION is a monthly newsletter in which digital media researcher Evan Kleekamp [https://twitter.com/Kleekamp] practices emotional detachment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital photograph of sculptural experiments in my last studio circa April 2021. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earlier this year, wanting to revisit the subjects that had held my attention until the Covid-19 pandemi