#aurora tang

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In episode 31 Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with researcher/curator Aurora Tang. Tang splits her time between Los Angeles, working as the Program Director at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Joshua Tree, where she’s the Managing Director of High Desert Test Sites.

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Read:

Cartographies of Silence by Adrienne Rich

Because it is everything.

Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability Femmes Of Color Symposium Keynote Speech, Oakland, CA (8/21/11)

Pure, unadulterated magic.

When Does a Guilty Pleasure Become Too Guilty?

I just started watching GOT and I already have a lot of feelings.

Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination

"The study of silence has long engrossed me. The matrix of a poet's work consists not only of what is there to be absorbed and worked on, but also what is missing, desaparecido, rendered unspeakable, thus unthinkable. It is through these invisible holes in reality that poetry makes its way--certainly for women and other marginalized subjects and for disempowered and colonized peoples generally, but ultimately for all who practice any art at its deeper levels. The impulse to create begins--often terribly and fearfully-- in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, "What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?" A. Rich, fairy godmother

Popova on Rich = everything

“Mad Max” Complicates Action Hero Masculinity—And That’s Great

Must. Watch. Immediately.

Listen:

Make/Work with Aurora Tang

This was interesting and good. It made me think about mindfulness in what, when, and how I take in culture/media, particularly as contextualized by all of the thinking about silence I've been doing.