Is My Body Meant To Be Read?
Structured as a two-week bootcamp, IS MY BODY MEANT TO BE READ? invites participants to build infrastructure for their creative practice while engaging in countermarket insurgency — organized economic activity that aims to accrue and mobilize social capital.
Working as a research group, participants will revamp their portfolios, start newsletters, create digital publications, assemble a business plan, and develop accountability practices that transform their creative labor into a functional business entity. To complete this goal, they will review and evaluate sample projects before making their own and soliciting feedback from their peers.
Throughout the intensive, the studio will provide templates, checklists, and additional office hours to ensure participants walk away with an updated and savvy web presence.
Portfolio Recap
PORTFOLIO RECAP gathers the findings from the portfolio research we conducted in IS MY BODY MEANT TO BE READ? and synthesizes them into a three-day sprint. Meeting for two hours each day, the sprint examines online workspaces as forms of investment and digital real estate. Considering a handful of unique, dynamic artist portfolio sites as well as artist-run online stores, we’ll probe how these artists navigate topics typically relegated to marketers, promoters, and the gallerist-agents who hire them.
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Past Iterations
The Summer 2023 session included guest appearances from art critic Rahel Aima, Dirt Media CEO Daisy Alioto, curator Alex Jones, artist Coco Klockner, Paper Monument cofounder Dushko Petrovich Córdova, collector Felipe Núñez, artist-gallerists Matt Morris and Eric Ruschman, and filmmaker Em Weinstein.
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Structured as a two-week bootcamp, IS MY BODY MEANT TO BE READ? invites participants to build infrastructure for their creative practice while engaging in countermarket insurgency — organized economic activity that aims to accrue and mobilize social capital.
Working as a research group, participants will revamp their portfolios, start newsletters, create digital publications, assemble a business plan, and develop accountability practices that transform their creative labor into a functional business entity. To complete this goal, they will review and evaluate sample projects before making their own and soliciting feedback from their peers.
Throughout the intensive, the studio will provide templates, checklists, and additional office hours to ensure participants walk away with an updated and savvy web presence.
Portfolio Recap
PORTFOLIO RECAP gathers the findings from the portfolio research we conducted in IS MY BODY MEANT TO BE READ? and synthesizes them into a three-day sprint. Meeting for two hours each day, the sprint examines online workspaces as forms of investment and digital real estate. Considering a handful of unique, dynamic artist portfolio sites as well as artist-run online stores, we’ll probe how these artists navigate topics typically relegated to marketers, promoters, and the gallerist-agents who hire them.
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Past Iterations
The Summer 2023 session included guest appearances from art critic Rahel Aima, Dirt Media CEO Daisy Alioto, curator Alex Jones, artist Coco Klockner, Paper Monument cofounder Dushko Petrovich Córdova, collector Felipe Núñez, artist-gallerists Matt Morris and Eric Ruschman, and filmmaker Em Weinstein.
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Screengrab from the 2023 summer session of IS MY BODY MEANT TO BE READ?, featuring Eric Ruschman and Matt Morris.