Culture and Starters: S.E. Nash’s Cultural Inquiry Through Fermentation
Culture and Starters: S.E. Nash’s Cultural Inquiry Through Fermentation
Etta Sandry takes a microscopic view of the concept of culture in the work of S. E. Nash While listening to an interview with the artist S.E. Nash and other fermentation enthusiasts on an episode of KCUR’s program Central Standard, I was struck by the use of the word “culture.” Taken from the Merriam-Webster English Dictionary online, the definition of “culture” in a scientific context is the act…
Have you submitted to #bigamericanpicture on Instagram yet? Come see YOUR pictures tonight or come experience Archive Collective's new interactive installation inside "The One Thing That Can Save America" curated by Jessica Baran at Charlotte Street's Paragraph Gallery + Project Space!
We've got 150 FREE zines + stickers + art you can touch + more installations and work from fellow Charlotte Street residents! See you there!
Submissions are now open for Big American Picture!
Can a picture say more than what’s in frame?
Can singular images tell us more about a ‘bigger picture’?
Submit your images to @archivecollective via Instagram with #bigamericanpicture for a chance to be featured in our installation inside The One Thing That Can Save America curated by Jessica Baran at Charlotte Street Foundation’s Paragraph Gallery + Project Space in Kansas City, Missouri!
-Submissions are open to any one using Instagram!
-Submissions from the Instagram tag #bigamericanpicture will be curated into a feed that evolves in the gallery throughout the exhibition.
-Submit any time between today (3/14/16) and (4/22/16) to be included in the Project Space + Paragraph Gallery exhibition.
About Charlotte Street Foundation: Charlotte Street’s mission is to challenge, nurture, and empower artists of exceptional vision. Charlotte Street – with our community of artists – strives to be a primary catalyst in making Kansas City a vibrant, creative metropolis, alive with collaboration, passion, ideas, and surprise.
About Jessica Baran: Jessica Baran is the director of Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts and an adjunct lecturer at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art. She also teaches in St. Louis University’s Prison Arts & Education program. She holds a B.A. in visual art from Columbia University, NY and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis – where she lives with her dog Benny.
"Brooklyn's Vincent Como and Baltimore artist and musician Terence Hannum contribute works that visually represent the experience of sound. Como used a copy machine to make "Descent," building up thick black toner on the surface of white paper. He arranges the 10 sheets that make up "Descent" in an upside-down pyramid that suggests downward movement.
Hannum paints candles and amps in white gouache on pentagon-shaped pieces of black paper. On a recent sunlit Saturday afternoon, with street traffic filtering past the windows at the front of the downtown gallery, the Paragraph seemed miles away — both geographically and atmospherically — from the Nordic landscapes inspiring much of this exhibit's works. But with the droning sounds of Ural Umbo on the record player in the background, the wispy flames of Hannum's candles seemed almost to quiver."
My favorite part about writing for CVLT Nation is that I can sit back and look at a collection of art that truly reflects my taste for the macabre. Occasionally I have been able find galleries or curators dedicated to dark and/or disturbing artwork, but up until recent years I have found myself at group shows, admiring one one or two of the artists, people who see the infinite beauty in grotesque places.
