Kevin O'Brien; Blak Box – travelling sound pavilion. Sound and light works by Indigenous artists to connect visitors to stories of the
Country it is located on
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom as a condemnation, as a sentence which we must all carry out – this is perhaps not the way in which we typically consider our ability to move about the world as we please. There is a weight of responsibility to our freedom, one that is often overlooked as we pursue ever more independence, desiring to break free of the humanity that binds us and exert our own power. There is an inherent necessity to be free responsibly lest our freedom impinges on that of others.
An-My Lê spoke to us in early July. She had just opened đô-mi-nô at Marian Goodman Gallery, which runs until August 20, 2021. Her older series, 29 Palms, is a series of photos of U.S. Marines training in the California high desert in preparation at the start of the war with Iraq in 2002. A self-described landscape
photographer, An-My Lê says that the landscape itself is as important in the photos as the subjects therein. Through her photography, she engages with notions of the past, present and future. To do this she describes as much detail as possible in her prints using a large-format camera and 5×7″ negatives. To hear more about her process and work, including her current show at Marian Goodman, listen to the complete interview.
Kevin O’Brien spoke to us from Brisbane, Australia on Tuesday, July 8, although in Brisbane it was already Wednesday, July 9. When we spoke, Australia was in lockdown due to COVID cases. An architect, O’Brien is busy with multiple projects. He is collaborating with architects from New York on a tower for Atlassian in Sydney as well
as working on research for the University of Sydney. O’Brien also works in theatrical design and as an artist in his own right designing sets and creating his own installation projects. One such installation project for the Queensland Bleach Festival is comprised of 3-D printed shrouds. The inspiration for this project came from a 2005 project in which O’Brien was challenged to consider what he would remove from the city rather than add to it. He decided that he would remove parts of the city to
reveal the concept of Country – read more about it here. And to hear more from Kevin O’Brien himself, listen to the complete interview.
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Emily Kennerk, installation, 2015
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