Publication
Giant Step: Artist Placement Group and Institutional Critique
Claire Louise Staunton reflects on her involvement with Giant Step, a multi-year program organized by Vessel from 2011 to 2012 that aimed to develop the concept of an “ideal” institution.
Techno on the Radio: Constant’s Techno-Cul-de-Sac
Constant’s recent worksession, Techno-Cul-de-Sac, proposed a collective encounter with Brussels via an investigation of zoning, infrastructure, and technology, bringing together artists, architects, and urban researchers.
iTuneZ: A Playlist Project for Radio Materiality
Within the context of Vessel’s Radio Materiality project, iTuneZ was imagined as a direct gesture to point out an extra-legal space to listen to what migrants play for comfort.
ICW 2015: A Reflection
Tirdad Zolghadr reflects on his experience attending Vessel’s 2015 International Curatorial Workshop (ICW) in Bari, Italy.
Vessel: A Meridian Practice
Vessel is a nomadic curatorial organization and agency invested in supporting artistic and curatorial practices that are situated, responsive, and research-led.
Conversations on Sound and Power: Sandra de la Loza
Sandra de la Loza’s research-based practice investigates the under layers of our present landscape to open portals and envision future worlds through collective memory and political imagination.
Weaving Our Values & Practices
Values & Practices is a collectively sourced and living set of agreements. This inaugural iteration invites those of us who gather through the Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry to ground ourselves in our visions for autonomous and liberated communities.
Insurgent Political Theater: Subjects-in-Revolt in Colombia and Palestine
Given that protests are multivalent and culturally specific, we ask: What were the political and, more importantly, the sentimental objectives of performances staged by subjects-in-revolt in Colombia and Palestine in spring 2021?
CTM 2022: Contact Traces
Arguably, presence is a quality of (music) performance that reveals aspects of representation that are not obvious in sound alone. The burgeoning philosophy of somaesthetics proposes that our bodies are an indispensable “tool of tools” and so by enhancing our bodily perceptions we may improve our quality of life.
Machines as Literary Companions
A long-running thread through the manifold work of Constant is an interest in collaborating with machines on installations, worksessions, and publications.
