Publications
Unweave
Unweave
Unweave is a research journal produced by the Discursive and Curatorial Production Initiative and edited by Associate Professor of Art History, Mariana Wardwell. Inaugurated in September 2012, this publication is a quarterly journal of art and theory dedicated to an unflinching examination of material culture historically and in the present.
Unweave is a research journal produced by the Discursive and Curatorial Production Initiative and edited by Associate Professor of Art History, Mariana Wardwell. Inaugurated in September 2012, this publication is a quarterly journal of art and theory dedicated to an unflinching examination of material culture historically and in the present.
Issue 1, Fall 2012
Issue 1, Fall 2012
Engineering and Its Reversals: Materials, Structures, Seeds, Aesthetics, Cognition
Engineering and Its Reversals: Materials, Structures, Seeds, Aesthetics, Cognition
Edited by Mariana Botey and Lucía Sanromán
Edited by Mariana Botey and Lucía Sanromán
Published on the occasion of the exhibition NanoMacroMega curated by Lucía Sanromán with texts by Michelle Y. Hyun, Grant Kester, Elizabeth A. Newsome, Tim Ridlen, Lesley Stern, and John C. Welchman.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition NanoMacroMega curated by Lucía Sanromán with texts by Michelle Y. Hyun, Grant Kester, Elizabeth A. Newsome, Tim Ridlen, Lesley Stern, and John C. Welchman.
Issue 2, Fall 2013
Issue 2, Fall 2013
The Conflict of the Faculties: Tensions in the Field of Art and Education
The Conflict of the Faculties: Tensions in the Field of Art and Education
Edited by Tim Ridlen
Edited by Tim Ridlen
This issue reflects investigations into the tensions of institutional and material forces surrounding art and education, featuring texts by Grant Kester, Luis Camnitzer, Nora Sternfeld, and Suhail Malik on the politics of education, its curatorial dimensions, and the development of the Ph.D. for artists. It also includes excerpts from Judith Rodenbeck’s unpublished conversations with Allan Kaprow, a reprint of Immanuel Kant’s essay “The Conflict of the Faculties,” and a conversation between Tim Ridlen and Blake Stimson about the potential of institutions in contemporary art.
This issue reflects investigations into the tensions of institutional and material forces surrounding art and education, featuring texts by Grant Kester, Luis Camnitzer, Nora Sternfeld, and Suhail Malik on the politics of education, its curatorial dimensions, and the development of the Ph.D. for artists. It also includes excerpts from Judith Rodenbeck’s unpublished conversations with Allan Kaprow, a reprint of Immanuel Kant’s essay “The Conflict of the Faculties,” and a conversation between Tim Ridlen and Blake Stimson about the potential of institutions in contemporary art.
Issue 3, Spring 2014
Issue 3, Spring 2014
Topologies of the Underground: Metaphors, Extensions & Speculations
Topologies of the Underground: Metaphors, Extensions & Speculations
Edited by Melinda Guillen and Elizabeth D. Miller
Edited by Melinda Guillen and Elizabeth D. Miller
This issue was organized in conjunction with DCP exhibition, SUBTERRANEA, and includes texts by Aurora Tang, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom McDonough, John C. Welchman, Elizabeth D. Miller, Kristen Gallerneaux, and Dominic Paul Miller with artist documentation from Artemisa Clark and Jill Magid. Additionally, the issue features a special insert reproduction of Robert Smithson's "Toward the Development of a 'Cinema Cavern'" (1971).
This issue was organized in conjunction with DCP exhibition, SUBTERRANEA, and includes texts by Aurora Tang, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom McDonough, John C. Welchman, Elizabeth D. Miller, Kristen Gallerneaux, and Dominic Paul Miller with artist documentation from Artemisa Clark and Jill Magid. Additionally, the issue features a special insert reproduction of Robert Smithson's "Toward the Development of a 'Cinema Cavern'" (1971).
Other Publications
Other Publications
Parking Lot Park catalogue, released 2014
Parking Lot Park catalogue, released 2014
Ph.D. candidate Melinda Guillen published a catalogue for Parking Lot Park, a sound promenade and drive-in theatre in the Marian Bear Memorial Park created by UCSD alumnus Kate Clark and Music Ph.D. candidate Sam Dunscombe. Consisting of maps, concepts, and related ephemera, the publication features an essay by Guillen, which draws connections between the project and the recent work of writer/activist Lucy Lippard. The publication launch included a reading by Clark and Dunscombe’s film Parking Lot Park: Seven Stories of San Clemente Canyon (2014).
Ph.D. candidate Melinda Guillen published a catalogue for Parking Lot Park, a sound promenade and drive-in theatre in the Marian Bear Memorial Park created by UCSD alumnus Kate Clark and Music Ph.D. candidate Sam Dunscombe. Consisting of maps, concepts, and related ephemera, the publication features an essay by Guillen, which draws connections between the project and the recent work of writer/activist Lucy Lippard. The publication launch included a reading by Clark and Dunscombe’s film Parking Lot Park: Seven Stories of San Clemente Canyon (2014).
No Longer Extant, Spring 2015
No Longer Extant, Spring 2015
Produced by Seth Ferris, Adela Goldbard, Melinda Guillen, and Lorena Gomez Mostajo with Taller Salón
Produced by Seth Ferris, Adela Goldbard, Melinda Guillen, and Lorena Gomez Mostajo with Taller Salón
Issue 4, Spring 2014
Issue 4, Spring 2014
Spheres of Glass: Re-imagining Aesthetics of Nature and the Social
Spheres of Glass: Re-imagining Aesthetics of Nature and the Social
Edited by Tim Ridlen and Katrin Pesch
Edited by Tim Ridlen and Katrin Pesch
UNWEAVE, Issue 4_UC San Diego.pdfPublished on occasion of the DCP exhibition, Spheres of Glass: Re-imagining Aesthetics of Nature and the Social, this issue comprises texts by Sabine Horlitz, Edward Kihn, Katrin Pesch, Tim Ridlen, Drew Snyder, Tom Sparrow, and Lesley Stern.
Published on occasion of the DCP exhibition, Spheres of Glass: Re-imagining Aesthetics of Nature and the Social, this issue comprises texts by Sabine Horlitz, Edward Kihn, Katrin Pesch, Tim Ridlen, Drew Snyder, Tom Sparrow, and Lesley Stern.
Issue 5, Spring 2016 (forthcoming)
Issue 5, Spring 2016 (forthcoming)
Disruptive Archive
Disruptive Archive
Edited by Melinda Guillen
Edited by Melinda Guillen
Consistent with the format of the previous four issues, this issue on the subject of the “disruptive archive” will consist of texts by Ph.D. students and faculty advisors from the Department of Visual Arts, artist text and image projects, and also experts in the field outside of UCSD. This issue will be produced in collaboration with artist and publisher Lorena Gomez Mostajo, a visiting artist from Mexico City in the Department of Visual Arts and founder of Taller Salón, a new independent publishing house that works with artists and writers to produce different kinds of printed matter. Taller Salón is also a printing house that helps artists in the San Diego-Tijuana community create a variety of projects at low cost.
Consistent with the format of the previous four issues, this issue on the subject of the “disruptive archive” will consist of texts by Ph.D. students and faculty advisors from the Department of Visual Arts, artist text and image projects, and also experts in the field outside of UCSD. This issue will be produced in collaboration with artist and publisher Lorena Gomez Mostajo, a visiting artist from Mexico City in the Department of Visual Arts and founder of Taller Salón, a new independent publishing house that works with artists and writers to produce different kinds of printed matter. Taller Salón is also a printing house that helps artists in the San Diego-Tijuana community create a variety of projects at low cost.
Lorena Gómez Mostajo (Mexico City) is an editor, writer, and photographer who holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has collaborated with the photography journal Luna Córnea as an essayist and editor and has written for newspapers and magazines such as Reforma, La Tempestad, Picnic, and Letras Libres. Lorena is the editor, along with Mara Fortes, of Chris Marker Inmemoria, a volume of essays about the French filmmaker published by the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival. She is also in the process of editing two other books with Ambulante: the first is a chronicle of the Ambulante Más Allá project and the other is a translation of Amos Vogel’s Film As a Subversive Art. Lorena's artistic work has been included in several collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States and Germany. Recently, she founded Taller Salón, an independent publishing and printing house that serves the Tijuana-San Diego community.
Lorena Gómez Mostajo (Mexico City) is an editor, writer, and photographer who holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has collaborated with the photography journal Luna Córnea as an essayist and editor and has written for newspapers and magazines such as Reforma, La Tempestad, Picnic, and Letras Libres. Lorena is the editor, along with Mara Fortes, of Chris Marker Inmemoria, a volume of essays about the French filmmaker published by the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival. She is also in the process of editing two other books with Ambulante: the first is a chronicle of the Ambulante Más Allá project and the other is a translation of Amos Vogel’s Film As a Subversive Art. Lorena's artistic work has been included in several collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States and Germany. Recently, she founded Taller Salón, an independent publishing and printing house that serves the Tijuana-San Diego community.