Remembering that fatigue and hopelessness is their goal and I’m too stubborn to let them win. Individualism isn’t the way, in the sense that you’re the one with the answers. You can only control what is immediately around you. Trying to give students the space to carry on safely is enough.

I think I’m always like, who wore it better? The small ad or the billboard? Like the setting in the Substance, that billboard plays such an omnipresent force. I would look at what their foundation is.

And yes. Teaching is hard and keeps getting harder.

I think I just bully them into explaining it to me and I’m maybe a little conceptually relentless? But I also do think it has a lot to do with conversations of “safe” “comfort” and the means with which students can take “risks,” especially if economics is playing a factor

I think a lot about when I was in school, I had one professor, our first project was 10 two layer prints in some absurd amount of time, maybe 1-1.5 weeks? It was like you had no time to think and the point was: get to work.

I force them to work large. They have no choice. For my first project in print 1, after they knock out 4-5 monotypes on the first week, the start work on a large monotype, full sheet. I make sure they have the means and tell them they can make a small image, but it must use the full sheet.

It’s amazing!! The exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum was so immense and rich with materials (a huge zine and publication exhibition). Tons of amazing documents. Sadly the catalogue is already out of print and I’m lucky that the copy we have is a students.

She’s my hero. Essential for any class working with archive-based practices.

And 5.) “Gesture, Ephemera, and Feeling” by Jose Esteban Munoz from Cruising Utopia

For reading assignments:

1.) Bad Archives by @soulellis.bsky.social and “Archives Behaving Badly” by Leah DeVun & Michael Jay McClure
2.) “Emotional Rescue” by Heather Love (from Feeling Backward)
3.) Intro from “Queer Ecologies” by Timothy Morten
4.) “Publics and Counterpublics by Michael Warner

🥳 💯

There’s a lot of optimism here that I appreciate, but I think since that time the institution has become exceptionally well-equipped to handle disruption. Columbia University, along with several other public unis, are stealthily retaliating. I support all forms of disruption, but it’s getting harder

Curiously, I know from a colleague in Philly that once a lawsuit is involved, every accommodation will suddenly become available.

This feels like it happens all the time in higher ed. It’s so frustrating. I’ve resorted to finding alternative support for my students. I always remind them that the institution looks out for itself first. Definitely a reflection of the outside world.

I would love to know any tips and tricks you gain! Recently hit some weird snafus and am wondering if it was the cheap Art Alternatives brand watercolors or something else (basically the pigment flaked off the gummed matte duralar)