Mott Community College
Fine Arts
Observational drawing: defining some differences between what is landscape and what is place in the context of the usefulness of observational drawing within studio art foundation programs.
[This text was written in conjunction with the online exhibition "Lo Ch'ing: Painting the Postmodern Landscape", http://the-poets-brush.artinterp.org/omeka/] The Anthropocene is a term given to the chronological period of the Earth's... more
This article examines the uses of organic matter in the art of Xu Bing and Gu Wenda. It attempts to outline the common concerns that both link these uses to culturally specific identities (Chinese or otherwise) and go beyond them to... more
This article examines the Tirana Independence Monument, first inaugurated in November of 2012 on the hundredth anniversary of Albanian independence from the Ottoman Empire. The monument, designed by Visar Obrija and Kai Roman Kiklas,... more
In the spring of 2016, a group of students, activists, and artists began to discuss the formation of a collective to oppose the hegemonic structures of capitalism and neoliberal politics and economics in contemporary Albania. From these... more
catalogue for a solo exhibition by Kyle Kogut at the Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, January 24-March 17, 2018
In 1969, Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha wrote an open letter addressed to Kristaq Rama, Shaban Hadëri, and Muntaz Dhrami – the most prominent sculptors in socialist Albania – that contained a series of conceptual and aesthetic... more
On 22 November 2014 a multi-level underground bunker on the outskirts of Tirana, the Albanian capital city, was opened to the public for the first time. The bunker had originally been constructed in the 1970s, during the country’s... more
This article considers the potential intersections of object-oriented ontology and science fiction studies by focusing on a particular type of science-fictional artifact, the category of 'Big Dumb Objects.' Big Dumb Objects is a... more