The people pictured in the book are students, faculty, staff, and other members of the Ohio State community who offered to participate in the project. We staged the photography set-up in two main campus arteries, the Thompson Library and the Wexner Center for the Arts, who collaborated in support of my fall exhibition project when an object reaches for your hand.
A human impulse is to extend our hands outward, to know the world through the reciprocity of touching things. Nonetheless, this video, which shares a turning of its pages, now affords a different form of celebration. August Artists-In-Presidents. This election season 50 artists are coming together to make national addresses alongside the presidential campaign. We are expanding the performance and aesthetics of public leadership with the bodies and voices of people that make up the majority of this country— people of color, indigenous folks, immigrants, LGBTQIA, persons with disabilities, and women.
The time for an update is overdue. Follow artistsinpresidents for more information. For someone who first emerged as long ago as the s, and who has had an international reputation since the s, Hamilton is surprisingly hard to profile.
She is, or has been, a textile artist; a body-artist and performance-artist; an installation artist; a photographer and videographer; an architect, a set-designer, and an animal-wrangler; a maker of civic monuments and of intimate, handcrafted objects. Moreover, in some of her most complex and celebrated works, such as the event of a thread at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan , she is all these things at once. For example, following graduation she made Toothpick Suit —for which she layered thousands of toothpicks in porcupine fashion along a suit of clothes—that she then wore and photographed.
She is as interested in verbal and written language as she is in the visual, and sees the two as related and interchangeable. In recent work, she has experimented with exchanging one sense organ for another: the mouth and fingers, for example, become like an eye, with the addition of miniature pinhole cameras. In , she won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
As the American representative at the Venice Biennale, she addressed topics of slavery and oppression in American society, with an installation that used walls embossed with Braille, which caught a dazzling red powder as it slid down from above, literally making language visible.
After teaching at the University of California at Santa Barbara from to , Hamilton returned to Ohio, where she lives and works. Art21 staffer and high school educator, Joe Fusaro, offers reasons why students should create art outside the classroom. Art21 Library Explore over videos from Art21's television and digital series.
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