Augustus Cross

from 2018 Visual Arts Thesis Catalogue

Asif Mian

Daria Irincheeva

Quipu #7015, 2017 Crystal resin 70 x 85 x 1”

Keyboard #74, 2016 Plastic, spray paint 19 x 7 x 1” Portal #012, 2017-2018 Ceramic, crystal resin, gold leaf, wood, metal, mash, paint, paper 55 x 16 x 4.5”

Orlee Malka

b. 1980 (Jerusalem), lives and works in New York City The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are ‘status quo’ is the catastrophe.

– Walter Benjamin, Central Park (1938)

My work is concerned with diasporic conditions, language and fields of belonging.

My continued practice in performance, drawing and sculpture negates the ontological standing of these different media while investigating the exact grounds their values are predicated on. In my work, I think of issues of performativity and the aesthetics of bias towards utilitarian objects, and issues of usership and making in response to and in sustained conversation with art history. With a particular interest in diverse storytelling traditions, I try to think about what constitutes non-monumental work.

Biographically, I come from a place that is in collapse. Catastrophes – are an ongoing fact in Palestine and Israel. This Semitic rupture and expulsion brings me to ask questions about ‘fugitivity’ and the possibility (political and otherwise) of art-making in a state of collapse.