A PDF version of my final MCP506 Project Report is available for download here. FINAL M506 PAPER WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY - GSENZA compressed I would be thrilled to hear any feedback you have. Blessings!
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Irony & Idealism
Dahlem seeks the reasons why the attitudes of scientists, who should set and enter a hypothesis in order to research something unknown―or something “higher”―seem religious.1 Scientists’ work is similar to artists’ work―it is intended to visualize and conceptualize something invisible or intangible. Kim Yoonseo(Curator, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art)Article posted on online here. Irony & … Continue reading Irony & Idealism
Women Making the Invisible Visible in the USA
This is our full list as of 30 March 2021.Please see questions below and feel free to add your thoughts in the comments.Thank you! Abby Wambach (1980-Present)Adrian Piper (1948-Present)Adrienne Lenker (1991-Present)Adrienne Maree Brown (1978-Present)Aesha Ash (1977-Present)Alejandra PizarnikAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989-Present):Alexis Pauline Gumbs (1982-Present)Amanda Gorman (1998-Present)Amy Goodman (1957-Present)Angela Davis (January 26, 1944-Present). Anita Hill (1956-Present)Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)Arudhati Roy … Continue reading Women Making the Invisible Visible in the USA
Invisible Things: Courage & Solidarity
Heather Heyer is a civil rights martyr Direct Link: Chicago Tribune By Dahleen Glanton Chicago Tribune | Aug 15, 2017 at 12:18 PM Emphasis added by Author of 1000 Invisible Things. Images of Heather Heyer, who was killed in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017, were carried by protesters outside Trump Tower in Chicago on … Continue reading Invisible Things: Courage & Solidarity
READING JOURNAL / WORKSHOP NOTES: The Translocal Neighbourhood with Michael Bowdidge
Reading: Katherine Brickell and Ayona Datta(2011) Translocal Geographies – Spaces, Places, Connections . . . \chapter 1 - introduction : translocal geographies real and imagined boundaries and territories translocality as mode of human agency and mobility across nations, regions, cities, neighbourhoods, buildings and bodies . . . \chapter 5 - translocal … Continue reading READING JOURNAL / WORKSHOP NOTES: The Translocal Neighbourhood with Michael Bowdidge
READING JOURNAL / WORKSHOP NOTES: The Unambitious Stripper with Isabel Lewis
Male / Female Gaze Outward / Inward Gaze Object / Subject Patriarchy / Equality I'm pretty hyped to be looking forward to a workshop with Isabel Lewis. Her work resonates a great deal with my own practice, as it is about creating immersive occasions where the artist/performer is not on a stage but actually sharing … Continue reading READING JOURNAL / WORKSHOP NOTES: The Unambitious Stripper with Isabel Lewis
How to Disappear
Originally published on CityLab. Found today on Pocket. How to Disappear Jessica Leigh Hester 10-13 minutes It can be hard to evade the sight of wall-mounted cameras--but other smart cities technologies are almost undetectable. Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters. Even in the middle of major city, it’s possible to go off the grid. In 2016, the … Continue reading How to Disappear
One of my favorite invisible things: Petrichor
I know it's peculiar, but one of my all-time favorite invisible things is that scent that permeates the air just before rain falls. Today I learned that is called "Petrichor". Another peculiar favorite of mine is wet pavement combined with diesel truck fumes because it reminds me of living in Rome. But that's a different … Continue reading One of my favorite invisible things: Petrichor
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Process Notes on Creating Performative / Exhibition Experiences
My process for both performance and exhibition is always about responding to the space-time opportunities that present themselves. For this reason, I often have only inklings of what I’d like to present and how it might go - rather than a clear concrete design. Typically, any plan that I come up with in advance is … Continue reading Process Notes on Creating Performative / Exhibition Experiences
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Ajamu Kojo: Black Wall Street Portraits
Invisible histories. Here's another bit of American history I never heard anything about until now. It's worth remembering history, in order to honor the lives lost and to do all that we can to prevent hate crimes from continuing today and in the future. None of us are free until we are all free, safe, … Continue reading Ajamu Kojo: Black Wall Street Portraits
HEAVEN / FALLEN MOON FALLEN STARS
Through a friend, I recently learned of this transdisciplinay performance. It resonates with the themes I'm addressing in my research, and I would dearly love to see it. I hope it goes on tour and makes it's way to Jacob's Pillow or New York... Published on Moving Poets https://movingpoets.org/charlotte/index.php/programs HEAVEN, February 27 - March … Continue reading HEAVEN / FALLEN MOON FALLEN STARS
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The Language of Being is Wordless
I just came across the work of Portuguese poet, Ana Hatherly who worked both visually and poetically, often crossing genres. What prompted the discovery? It was an image included in the email signature of another creative academic from Portugal, Anabela Duarte, who organized the Invisible Republics conference that I participated in in 2017. In her … Continue reading The Language of Being is Wordless
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How to truly listen | Evelyn Glennie
From YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=383kxC_NCKw In this soaring demonstration, profoundly deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums. FEB 2003
Invisible Made Audible: Percussion
From YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2-9WHpidJg On the morning of 15th April, Paul Sonderegger stepped off the Chicago red-eye to meet Dame Evelyn Glennie at her home recording studio. Glennie, a Grammy award-winning percussionist and Sonderegger, a tech celebrity, were there to discuss "Big Data" and its surprising symmetries with the sonic world we inhabit, and yet ignore. … Continue reading Invisible Made Audible: Percussion
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Living Laboratory
From the Living Laboratory - Museum of Science, Boston https://www.mos.org/living-laboratory/explore-our-research/invisible-entities When do children understand that “invisible things” can affect objects? Topic: Cognitive Development Location: Discovery Center Preschoolers understand that some objects have internal properties that produce predictable and observable effects on other objects. Yet, in their everyday lives, children also hear about things they cannot … Continue reading Living Laboratory
Social Belonging
When we open up to another person and are recognized for who we are, we feel seen. The basic human need for social connection is why the invisibility prank is especially cruel. There’s nothing more terrifying than not mattering—disappearing—to the people around us. From Character Lab's CEO and Co-Founder, Angela Duckworth's article: https://www.characterlab.org/thought-of-the-week-would-you-rather Would You … Continue reading Social Belonging
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it…
"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There is no innocence. Either way, you're accountable." — Arundhati Roy
Invisible Things: Entitlement
Stuart Round’s comment on Reyma McCoy McDeid’s Facebook page about an article she posted called What The Fuck Is Wrong With Men? really struck a chord for me. I think Stuart uncovered the deeper issues underlying the American man’s propensity towards anger, aggression, and violence. I’m copying his comment (and the follow-up comments) here in … Continue reading Invisible Things: Entitlement
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WALKIN’ WITH WORDXWORD AT THE MOUNT
I'm excited to be participating in this upcoming WordXWord event at The Mount with a short performance piece that responds to a sculpture called Institutional Tan. The photo of the work posted online immediately made me think of invisibility, mass incarceration, border patrol and caged children. I'm not yet sure what I will perform, but … Continue reading WALKIN’ WITH WORDXWORD AT THE MOUNT
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Upcoming Projects…
In an effort to summarize (and organize) the events I have coming up, I'm posting (and updating) my notes on each project here on my blog. This should make it easy for me to update and locate the details as they develop... . . . . . . . ZK/U MONDAY DINNER PRESENTATION 13 AUGUST … Continue reading Upcoming Projects…
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Read, Reflect, Experiment
Experiment: The third and final bucket is rapid experimentation. Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison became leading inventors and thinkers because of their experiments. We have Gmail because Google allowed employees to experiment with new ideas. The reason experiments are so useful is because you have facts, not assumptions. Experiments show you what’s working. You can learn from your mistakes and … Continue reading Read, Reflect, Experiment
Antidisciplinary?
I just came across this article from the MIT Media Lab that talks about the meaning of "antidisciplinary" - a word I'd never heard... Antidisciplinary » Oct 02, 2014 - 20:39 UTC » MIT Media Lab - Science One of the first words that I learned when I joined the Media Lab was "antidisciplinary." It … Continue reading Antidisciplinary?
Is Water Invisible?
One of the conversations that sticks with me most from my quest to compile a collection of one thousand invisible things was on the topic of water. The person I was conversing with declared water to be invisible. I, personally, didn't see it that way - because I can see water in a pool and … Continue reading Is Water Invisible?
Fictocritical Maps?
I'm loving the work of Gerhard Marx. It makes me think of what Rachel Epp Buller is doing with her fictocritical texts... From his website: https://gerhardmarx.co.za/ TRANSPARENT TERRITORY – In his dizzying new series of maps for groundlessness, Gerhard Marx continues his investigations into the formal and fictive possibilities of perspective. Rupturing the flat surface … Continue reading Fictocritical Maps?
INVISIBILITY LAB to Host Open Engagement 2018 – Dinner Conversation
Invisible Sustenance May 12, 2018 7:00 - 8:30 Invisibility Lab In a fast-paced, interconnected world where people rarely have time for nurturing themselves or their relationships, the Invisibility Lab asks: What keeps you going? What sustains you through difficult times? What do you rely on for sustenance? Are these things measurable? Are they visible? And … Continue reading INVISIBILITY LAB to Host Open Engagement 2018 – Dinner Conversation
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Borders… A Case for Getting Rid of Borders
The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely No defensible moral framework regards foreigners as less deserving of rights than people born in the right place at the right time. Alex Tabarrok Oct 10, 2015
Invisible Capital
Here's a peak at a paper by Gretchen Sneegas on GradFoodStudies website: “Sustenance Out of Refuse”: Detroit, Invisible Capital & the Search for Food Justice Gretchen Sneegas abstract | In recent years, Detroit has been largely portrayed by mass media as a site of desolation and desertion. The city’s citizens, however, have another story to tell. … Continue reading Invisible Capital
Iowa Lakeside Lab Residency
This looks like a great place for working on Invisibility Lab research - especially the environmental/sound aspects of the unseen world and to develop more transdisciplinary projects... I can't wait to spend some time exploring this site to see what the resident artists have focused on so far! ABOUT The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Artist-in-Residence (AIR) … Continue reading Iowa Lakeside Lab Residency
Mildred’s Lane
I think someone at Transart mentioned Mildred's Lane to me last year, but I only now stumbled upon it do discover it is a project/site organized by J Morgan Puett (whose fashion/architectural installations in Manhattan in the early 90's I absolutely ADORED!) and Mark Dion. While it has a much more elaborate (and academic) program … Continue reading Mildred’s Lane
Graph Commons & Burak Arikan
Making data graphs accessible - Amazing stuff! From Artists in Laboratories Radio Series: "...beautiful but also politically-revealing data mapping with Burak Arikan, a New York and Istanbul based artist working with complex networks. Burak runs social, economic, and political issues through an abstract machinery, which generates network maps and algorithmic interfaces and draws up predictions … Continue reading Graph Commons & Burak Arikan
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Define American
How do you Define American? "Migration was never about legality. It was always about who has the power to define borders and laws. And we must remember that laws don't always equal justice." Jose Antonio Vargas http://www.defineamerican.com Apartheid was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a matter … Continue reading Define American
Uta Barth – Photographer
I just came across Uta Barth's work and I'm incredibly smitten! Her images are deeply poetic and imbued with the unfocused essence of what is, rather than fully representing something plainly visible... In ways that are similar to my own images - although much of her work is much more sophisticated - and perhaps, intentional … Continue reading Uta Barth – Photographer
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Branah
I've been thinking about invisible things a lot today... as well as this idea I have had floating around in my head for quite some time now - that people who are blind are, I suspect, actually able to see better than those of us with sight... Their heightened awareness and increased powers in their … Continue reading Branah
The Man Helping Dubai Pivot from Oil to Art
From Artsy, worth reading... The Man Helping Dubai Pivot from Oil to Art https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-man-helping-dubai-pivot-oil-art
Applying for Things – Rivet
A few great resources I've just learned about (that were formerly invisible - invisible, as in unknown to me): RIVET - a site that gathers and consolidates all available grants, residencies, opportunities, etc. into one central location. And their awesome breakdown of things to consider when applying for opportunities here... Thinking it would be cool … Continue reading Applying for Things – Rivet
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The Fox’s Secret
At last! I found a translator's breakdown of one of the most profound truths as expressed by the Fox in Saint-Exupery's, The Little Prince. Many thanks to the cjvlang.com site for posting what is, for me, a very satisfying breakdown of the many different translations into English of that beautiful nugget of truth in The … Continue reading The Fox’s Secret
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White Washing as Erasure – Titus Kaphar
Vice interview with one of my favorite artists, Titus Kaphar who's work addresses the invisible stories left out of history & art... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wd4mb9/titus-kaphar-on-his-new-solo-show-and-unarmed-black-men-in-america-111 Artist Titus Kaphar on His New Solo Show and Unarmed Black Men in America "I feel very strongly that most of the history that we have been taught is at best incomplete, … Continue reading White Washing as Erasure – Titus Kaphar
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Making Invisible the Visible
Jenny Polak talks about her piece, Host - Emergency Sleeping Systems for Undocumented Guests, a site-specific installation at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, created in response to the story of Barbara Kremer who sheltered in her home 24 people from immigration raids on workers at a meat packing factory in Worthington MN in 2006. Watch … Continue reading Making Invisible the Visible
Constructivism & Disequilibrium
As I begin to make an effort towards synthesizing the data I've gathered through the Invisibility Lab over the last few months, I find this article by Sandy Speicher particularly relevant and potentially helpful... Knowledge doesn’t exist in the world, and you don’t acquire it: Knowledge exists in our own minds, through our own active … Continue reading Constructivism & Disequilibrium
NY Mag: How to Make It in the Art World
Hehe... Here are the rules... Don't be invisible. http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/
Flowers of Democracy: Women in the Ukraine and other places of conflict…
"During the last 2 years the situation in my country, as in many other countries in conflict, has become more and more patriarchal. The position of women, especially in war areas, is so difficult. Ideas that the place of women is just in the kitchen, to take care of their men and give birth, are … Continue reading Flowers of Democracy: Women in the Ukraine and other places of conflict…
Intersectionalty & Positionality
Finally! A description of "Positionality" I can understand. From Zetta Elliott's blog: I woke at 4am this morning knowing I had to be up soon to catch my 7am train to Baltimore. This cold seemed to be over—I made it through yesterday without sneezing once—but today I woke with an impossible headache and by the … Continue reading Intersectionalty & Positionality
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OCTOBER 18 CRIT SESSION POST
[ADD IMAGES FROM G-DOC VERSION] Greetings from Ireland! Due to a misunderstanding regarding my 90 day visa limitations, I’m currently working in the midst of several disruptions and relocations as I bide time out of the Schengen area (visiting Liverpool, Istanbul, and Donegal) so that I may reenter next week to present my work at … Continue reading OCTOBER 18 CRIT SESSION POST
INVISIBILITY LAB – BERLIN ART WEEK
This is a quick update - just to get some images posted. More to come... Gabrielle Senza gsenza
Taste Test – Berlin
https://youtu.be/UmPsNAR8-3o This is a short solo piece performed at ZK/U during Berlin Art Week. (Rough cut video version) #InvisibilityLab #TasteTest #BerlinArtWeek #WhatInvisibleThingsDoYouRelyOn?
Life can really get in the way sometimes
It's remarkable how much time some of the most basic things in life can take. From daily chores, to following up on emails with important contacts, to simply taking care of oneself and/or one's family... A whole day can pass without ever getting to the creative, juicy part that makes you jazzed about being free … Continue reading Life can really get in the way sometimes
1000 Invisible Things 