Free tickets are now available for ☼TᖇOᑭIᑕ ᗷOᑌᑎᗪ☼, an international 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓 in Miami’s design district. 𝑰'𝒎 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 at this incredible multi-day event on Saturday, February 8th at 10:30 am. My 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 will focus on the 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 of artists’ books in 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦𝐬, and ask how we can create more 𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 for 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒆𝒙𝒉𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 in museum spaces. I hope you’ll add your voice to the conversation! ☼TᖇOᑭIᑕ ᗷOᑌᑎᗪ☼ is ᖴᖇᗴᗴ and open to the public.
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The Society for Speculation presents The World Ahead /
Orlando writers and artists, you’re invited to a super fun night of reading artists’ books and predicting the future!
The Society for Speculation presents: The World Ahead: a talk on a new collaborative project from artist Rachel Simmons and writer Chrissy Kolaya
Saturday, June 29, 7-9 p.m. Kerouac House (1418 Clouser Ave, Orlando)
Free and open to the public
Chance of Pain, 2024, limited edition artist’s book by Chrissy Kolaya and Rachel Simmons
We’re all tempted, seduced by the question: what will happen next? Join us as we share a new creative project about predictions, fortune telling, and other ways of guessing the future!
“The World Ahead” is a found text and collage series of artists’ books using text from the Economist magazine’s “The World Ahead” issue, described by its editors as a “guide to the coming year,” including “future gazing analysis, predictions and speculation.” This series of experimental artist’s books is an attempt to challenge the idea that we can ever meaningfully predict or make sense and order out of an uncertain future.
What If? 2024, limited edition artist’s book by Chrissy Kolaya and Rachel Simmons
As part of this talk, we'll share samples from this three-book series in progress and discuss our inspiration, process, and collaboration. We'll also invite the audience to participate in an interactive prediction game!
This project has been awarded support from the University of Central Florida’s Women and Gender Studies Program’s Gloria Anzaldúa Research Excellence Award.
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Chance of Pain, collaborative artist's book /
This new limited edition artists’ book, Chance of Pain, was made in collaboration with writer @chrissykolaya and is being shown @fieldprojects in NYC for the upcoming exhibition of artist’s books and zine titled “Traces” on view April 30-May 5, 2024. It’s been so much fun to work on this project, which emerged from a series of poems Chrissy adapted from articles from The Economist's "The Year Ahead" issue, but also from our shared interest in predictions and the future, as well as the nostalgic quality of photographs from 1970’s Nat Geo magazines. This lotus fold accordion invites the reader to make sense of random found imagery paired with the language of prediction.
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