Threshold
For 1708’s annual Inlight exhibit I created a sculpture that confronted and reflected on the complicated history of Jackson Ward.
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For 1708’s annual Inlight exhibit I created a sculpture that confronted and reflected on the complicated history of Jackson Ward.
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NOV 2023
Filed Under: Public Art, Sculpture, Place-Based, Monuments, Public Memory.
Filed Under: Public Art, Sculpture, Place-Based, Monuments, Public Memory.
Stolen Land
A performance acknowledging the relativity of ‘Independence’ in the guise of patriotism.
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A performance acknowledging the relativity of ‘Independence’ in the guise of patriotism.
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JUL 2023
Filed Under: Public Art, Sculpture, Place-Based, Monuments, Public Memory.
Filed Under: Public Art, Sculpture, Place-Based, Monuments, Public Memory.
After Animism
was the title of my MFA thesis exhibit at University of Hartford. The installation, which depicts an archeological exhibit in the future, asks how ancenstral knowledge, the natural sciences, and popular culture might coelesce into the artifacts of the past (our present) if a wide-scale animistic shift had occurred.
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was the title of my MFA thesis exhibit at University of Hartford. The installation, which depicts an archeological exhibit in the future, asks how ancenstral knowledge, the natural sciences, and popular culture might coelesce into the artifacts of the past (our present) if a wide-scale animistic shift had occurred.
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JUN 2022
Filed Under: Animism, Speculative, Ancestral Knowledge, Artifacts, History, Ecology, Museums
Filed Under: Animism, Speculative, Ancestral Knowledge, Artifacts, History, Ecology, Museums
The Plunder of the
Sananab of Thrae
is a short piece of speculative fiction written for Seed Broadcast, a publication based out of New Mexico. It tells the story of the domesticated banana through the perspective of an immigrant family.
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Sananab of Thrae
is a short piece of speculative fiction written for Seed Broadcast, a publication based out of New Mexico. It tells the story of the domesticated banana through the perspective of an immigrant family.
Read it here (p25) ︎︎︎
MAY 2022
Filed under: Writing, Speculative Fiction,
Social Justice, Immigration, Farming, History,
Filed under: Writing, Speculative Fiction,
Social Justice, Immigration, Farming, History,
Costales
is a mobile memorial created during my time living in Colombia for four months in 2021. It was dedicated to the social leaders that had died that year in the state of Antioquia, a re-emerging issue since the signing of the Peace Accord in 2016.
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is a mobile memorial created during my time living in Colombia for four months in 2021. It was dedicated to the social leaders that had died that year in the state of Antioquia, a re-emerging issue since the signing of the Peace Accord in 2016.
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APRIL 2021
Filed under: Public Art, Community Engagement, Memorials, Social Justice, Colombia
Filed under: Public Art, Community Engagement, Memorials, Social Justice, Colombia
Preserve, Revise, Remove, Radicalize
is an essay written for Futuress.org that details the ongoing struggle to take down the Confederate Statues in Richmond, Virginia, while also highlighting a selection of artists who are involved in current public art discourse.
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is an essay written for Futuress.org that details the ongoing struggle to take down the Confederate Statues in Richmond, Virginia, while also highlighting a selection of artists who are involved in current public art discourse.
Read it at FUTURESS︎︎︎
JUL 2021
Filed under: Writing, Essays, Public Art, Social Justice
Filed under: Writing, Essays, Public Art, Social Justice
The Plinth Project
is an initiative I started to foster discussion around public art commissions in Richmond, Virginia, and America as a whole.
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is an initiative I started to foster discussion around public art commissions in Richmond, Virginia, and America as a whole.
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2021–Present
Filed under: Community Engagement, Public Art, Monuments, Memorials, Richmond, Virginia
Filed under: Community Engagement, Public Art, Monuments, Memorials, Richmond, Virginia
Faciality Maps
is an ongoing study of faciality — a theoretical systemic machine (comprised of signifiance and subjectivity) that creates the duality between established and deterratorialized language/media/images/faces. In the construction of this term coined by Deleuze and Guatarri, and expanded on by Peter Sloterdijk, the other is defined and constantly in relation to the extablished ‘order.’ A prime example is of the ubiquitous image of the European version of Jesus, or more plainly, the White Man.
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is an ongoing study of faciality — a theoretical systemic machine (comprised of signifiance and subjectivity) that creates the duality between established and deterratorialized language/media/images/faces. In the construction of this term coined by Deleuze and Guatarri, and expanded on by Peter Sloterdijk, the other is defined and constantly in relation to the extablished ‘order.’ A prime example is of the ubiquitous image of the European version of Jesus, or more plainly, the White Man.
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2020–Present
︎ Filed under: Data visualization, Media Studies,
Racism,
︎ Filed under: Data visualization, Media Studies,
Racism,
Envelope
Part art gallery, part creative consultancy, Envelope endeavors to be an agency that promotes agency. A multimodal platform where one can consume, contribute, and critique the evolving discussions at the intersection of art, nature and politics.
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Part art gallery, part creative consultancy, Envelope endeavors to be an agency that promotes agency. A multimodal platform where one can consume, contribute, and critique the evolving discussions at the intersection of art, nature and politics.
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2018–Present
Filed under: Design, Public Engagement,
Filed under: Design, Public Engagement,
2017–Present
Filed under: Video, Performance, Public Art, Community Engagement, Social Justice, Education,
Filed under: Video, Performance, Public Art, Community Engagement, Social Justice, Education,
Anachron Majuscule
A typeface in progress, inspired by Textura Quadrata and majuscule script.
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A typeface in progress, inspired by Textura Quadrata and majuscule script.
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2017–Present
Filed under: Video, Performance, Public Art, Community Engagement, Social Justice, Education,
Filed under: Video, Performance, Public Art, Community Engagement, Social Justice, Education,
Fine Print
In collaboration with BFAMFAPHd member, Vicky Virgin, Fine Print is a three-part video series of lecture demonstrations that probes the absurdity of student loan agreements through precise choreography, carefully-chosen locations and the cryptic language of loan contracts.
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In collaboration with BFAMFAPHd member, Vicky Virgin, Fine Print is a three-part video series of lecture demonstrations that probes the absurdity of student loan agreements through precise choreography, carefully-chosen locations and the cryptic language of loan contracts.
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NOV 2018
Filed under: Video, Performance, Public Art, Community Engagement, Social Justice, Education,
Filed under: Video, Performance, Public Art, Community Engagement, Social Justice, Education,
2015–Present
Filed under: Mixed-media, landscapes,
Filed under: Mixed-media, landscapes,
BLAAAH Magazine
is an arts & culture publication I started in 2008 and ran til about 2016..
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is an arts & culture publication I started in 2008 and ran til about 2016..
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2008–2016
Filed under: print, publishing,
Filed under: print, publishing,
©Mauricio Vargas 2023