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The Center for Art Research (CFAR) cultivates diverse modes of engagement related to the practices of contemporary artists by supporting speculative Research, Discourse, Exhibition, and Publication
CFAR publications vary in form and content, proliferating art thinking related to the experiences and conditions of contemporary life. Publications, authored by center affiliates and others, are both printed and web-based, and include essays, monographs, periodicals, public archives, editioned art multiples, and other experimental forms.
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Item Open Access Between Sunlight and Shadow: Transvocality as Talmudic Process(2021) Green, Nicki; Center for Art Research, University of OregonItem Open Access Biting the Hand That Feeds You(2021) Werbel, Libby; Center for Art Research, University of OregonItem Open Access Catalytic Conversation: Craft and the Hyperobject(2021) Center for Art Research, University of OregonCFAR’s Catalytic Conversations serve the creative practices of individuals and groups by giving them an opportunity to engage a small body of thinkers in ways that contribute to a project or line of thinking that is in development. These conversations are recorded, transcribed, and archived as reference materials for those involved. This particular Catalytic Conversation was the first that CFAR conducted with intent to publish.Item Open Access Conditions(2022) Center for Art Research, University of OregonCritical Conversations encourages exchange and inquiry. The partners above facilitate a year-round calendar of studio visits for Oregon artists by prominent visiting curators and arts writers who present public lectures and other forms of engagement in our community. Recognizing the nexus between artists and those who research, reflect upon, and present their work, Critical Conversations also sponsors a series of convenings that specifically engage Oregon’s curators and arts writers with currents in the field. The title and concept for CONDITIONS came into focus as the editorial team launched its first issue, FIGURING. Here, we shift from FIGURING’s multiple perspectives on the body and the psyche to examine the cultural and biological mysteries and actualities of life at this tenuous environmental and socio-political moment. As our need for breath and sustenance are foregrounded across an accounting of our shared lives, we hope that CONDITIONS offers a space to meditate on the ways in which works of art (including writing) support us in making meaning from our state of, and provisions for, being.Item Open Access The Crazy Pineapple(2021) Tobier, Nick; Center for Art Research, University of OregonItem Open Access Dismantling the House: Before and After Thoughts(2021) Amir, Yaelle S.; Center for Art Research, University of OregonAn un-articulate list of select random, sometimes foggy thoughts taken from a ‘power journal’ I kept while developing the series of programs Dismantling the House for CFAR (winter 2020 to spring 2021).Item Open Access Every Day Is for the Thief(2021) Koiki, Bukola; Center for Art Research, University of OregonItem Open Access Figuring(2021) Center for Art Research, University of OregonBy holding space for both indeterminacy and latent form, Figuring conjures histories and possible futures, lived experiences, and propositions for ways that ethereal matter might exist concretely or be allowed to endure as defined by its own logic.Item Open Access The Future of Work is Collective Organizing(2021) Precarious People's Party; Center for Art Research, University of OregonA conversation organized by Jea Alford & Ariana Jacob with Susan Cuffaro, Sean Cumming, Brian Dolber, Hannah Gioia, Anna Gray, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Cat Hollis, Anna Neighbor, Larissa Petrucci, Emmett Schlenz, and Lise Soskolne.Item Open Access Juneteenth(2021) Campbell, Crystal Z.; Center for Art Research, University of OregonItem Open Access Language Game #1(University of Oregon, 2021) Center for Art Research, University of Oregon; Abreu, Manuel ArturoI unyoke the issue of real and fake from the artificial, post-Enlightenment European context of ‘art’ to look at the prehistory, which is theological and entheogenic in nature. I first discuss Sylvia Wyner’s notion of auto-institutionality with respect to mind; I then discuss Abrahamic literalism; finally, I situate the ancients’ respect for visionary-driven consciousness within the larger frame of governance of such consciousness. That is, even though the moderns lost knowledge of the mysteries, the ancients aren’t so different from us, different societies simply control access to consciousness altering goods in different ways. Why are these resources so tightly controlled?Item Open Access Making After Melancholia(2021) Imatani, Garrick; Center for Art Research, University of OregonThis public conversation was held on April 18, 2021 in conjunction with Garrick Imatani’s CFAR exhibition, monologue. The artists discussed the nuanced ways in which their identity figures into their work—looking at compounded layers of representation, cultural expectation vs. lived experience, and the futurist contexts in which their work as Asian American makers might be seen in the midst of increased national violence. The following excerpts have been edited for clarity, length and readability.Item Open Access Noon(2023) Center for Art Research, University of OregonNoon may be the least romanticized phase of a day. Not a beginning or an end, but a quiet tipping point. The lighting does not swoon as dawn and dusk, the energy does not pulse. But one can move without the deep shadows of other times — a body alone without the complications of its drawn shell. This time for our world may be noon. Soft noon, lower case, not to slide into the hard High Noon of Western pastiche. We find ourselves just past history-making periods for racial justice, social networks, and women’s rights. After such upheaval, these spaces are changed but not by any means resolved. Restitution has hardly begun. Sickness lingers. Losses of ground around every corner. Wars draw on with faltering attention. There is a sense still of the day ahead, but not many markers for what it will bring. Aren’t we close enough to dusk for urgency? Our project, of commissioning and gathering art writing into bound books, holds evidence of this epoch. Writers are still hit by COVID, again and again. People are torn: their attentions, families, lives of joining adjunct work with writing work with editing work, curating. They are tired from pressing very hard through the past two years, with less time even in the face of days that are far more domestic. To return to the image of the body alone without shadow: at this noon, we are more able to see each other as we are. The writing of the hour has less arch, less bass, but more authenticity, be it a look back at an artist-run space of decades ago or a futuristic journey. These writers are working confidently, with their voices and their propositions clear.Item Open Access A Partial Glossary, for Visiting the Lichen Museum(2021) Palmer, A. Laurie; Center for Art Research, University of OregonThe Lichen Museum considers this slow, resistant, adaptive and collective organism as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor. This glossary is a living text that pulls quotes and excerpts from that work-in-progress.Item Open Access The Place in Which I Fit Will Not Exist Until I Make It(2021) Hutchins, Jessica Jackson; Center for Art Research, University of OregonItem Open Access Untitled(2021) Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly; Center for Art Research, University of OregonItem Open Access We're Out of Control(2021) Thakur, Garima; Towne, Sharita; Center for Art Research, University of Oregon