Triple Canopy

11/07/2024

🔧 Announcing issue 29, Our Bad 🔧

Sabotage has long been dismissed as an individualistic and counterproductive act. But if stifling jobs and dysfunctional states are the norm, why not slow the line or lodge a wrench in the gears? Triple Canopy’s twenty-ninth issue, Our Bad, takes up spectacular feats of sabotage as well as subtle subversions that reveal and exploit vulnerabilities in the systems that shape our lives. Our Bad asks how the tactics of mischief-makers and dissenters lead to collective action, especially under conditions that might otherwise look like defeat.

We’ve launched the issue with an introduction by deputy editor Rachel Ossip on sabotage’s trajectory from labor organizing to Elon Musk’s sh*tposting; an essay on cubicle-bound chaos agents and the specter of incompetence by Evan Calder Williams; and a multimedia poem about surveillance, deviance, and the allure of face masks by Benjamin Krusling.

The issue features a new typeface by Nat Pyper called Third World Gay Revolution, which is based on letterforms created by the artist and gay activist Juan Carlos Vidal in 1970.

https://bit.ly/4cWtc3L

29/05/2024

Nightboat Books and Triple Canopy are excited to celebrate the publication of Dawn Lundy Martin’s new poetry collection Instructions for The Lovers (Nightboat Books, 2024) with readings by Martin and the poet Natalie Diaz, followed by a conversation with Simone White and a reception. Join us at TC HQ on June 10!

Instructions for The Lovers is an extended reflection on the boundaries between lovers, strangers, and social bodies. Shifting between lyric and prose, Martin considers how the creation and negotiation of these lines manifest in experiences of s*x, race, aging, and violence—and point to the fallacy of the stable individual.

A reading, conversation, and celebration of Martin’s *Instructions for The Lovers*, a collection of poetry about intimacy and aging. Presented with Nightboat Books. ...

28/05/2024

On Thursday, June 13, Mezzanine and Triple Canopy will present the Los Angeles premiere of a trilogy of short films by Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand that probe the compulsion to be “extremely online” (and the entanglement of self-representation and s*xuality). The screening of First (2019), Negative Two (2019), and 38 (2021) will be followed by a conversation between the filmmakers and Chris Kraus, then a party in the bar at 2220 Arts + Archives with DJ sets by Bianca Lexis and Lil M.

The Los Angeles premiere of a trilogy of short films on the hypermediation of love and longing. Presented with Mezzanine....

02/05/2024

We’re happy to announce the artist, composer, and performer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste as the recipient of the inaugural Triple Canopy Fellowship! Read more about the fellowship and Toussaint-Baptiste: https://bit.ly/3Wnc8z4

Photo by David Hale.

26/04/2024

What’s the relationship between sabotage and self-sabotage? On Friday, May 3, Hannah Proctor and TC senior editor Ciarán Finlayson will consider strategies for transforming the self that have emerged across social movements, from the pedagogy of desert schools in South Yemen to the feminist consciousness-raising of organizations like New York Radical Women to the infamous criticism-self-criticism sessions of the Weather Underground.

Proctor will screen clips from films that she discusses in her new book Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) and ask how activists, organizers, and revolutionaries in various groups and parties have made space for psychic ambivalence, inconsistency, and contradiction in daily life. At the same time, Proctor will consider how struggle inflicts damage not only on the society that radicals wish to upend but on themselves.

A discussion about the psychological toll of political struggle and “speaking bitterness.”...

17/04/2024

We’ve just announced the honorary and host committees for our benefit on June 3 honoring Cecilia Vicuña! Join us at Rule of Thirds for drinks, food, celebrations, and more. https://bit.ly/3vattQu

19/03/2024

Our fourth annual film series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, guest-curated by Yasmina Price, begins on Friday. The series highlights work by daring filmmakers and artists who use cinema to circumvent censorship, house arrest, law, decorum, and the protocols of the form.

Daring filmmakers exploit traditional forms to offer social critiques and razor-sharp satire.

16/03/2024

Applications for our summer Publication Intensive are live! The Publication Intensive is a tuition-free, two-week program in the history and contemporary practice of publication. Each year we invite approximately 12 applicants who are in the early stages of their careers and have backgrounds in areas such as writing, art, literature, art history, technology, and design.

During the Publication Intensive, Triple Canopy’s editors and collaborators lead discussions, workshops, and site visits with participants, who research, analyze, and develop projects that hinge on new technologies but also mine the history of print culture and artistic practice.

This year’s session will take place June 10–21. Applications are due by April 7 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Read more and apply: https://bit.ly/3I1hdVV

13/03/2024

We’re thrilled to announce that we’re honoring the artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña at our spring benefit on June 3, 2024.

Please join us at Rule of Thirds for drinks, a seated dinner, and celebrations of Vicuña’s visionary work. The complete lineup of performers, speakers, and artists creating works for the occasion will be announced shortly.

Read more and purchase tickets: https://bit.ly/3vattQu

Photo by Jason Schmidt.

12/03/2024

Join us this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. to ponder the attachments we form to music, consider the techniques composers use to transform sound, and dust off some old Guitar Hero controllers to gamify music-making in a brand new way.

Kimberly Alidio, Amber Flannery Field, and Aristilde Kirby will share thoughts about the music and scenes that have shaped them, from punk shows in a Quaker meeting house to experimental music and progressive rap. Blake Andrews will be on site designing a game in real time—inspired by Guitar Hero and Glenn Branca’s cacophonous works for electric guitars—which audience members will be able to play on stage after the presentations. Playtests for Live Feed are curated by the game development studio Pariah Interactive.

https://bit.ly/43gBuQC

01/03/2024

Join us on tomorrow, March 2 at 3 p.m. for When History Wakes. Presented by the artist Suneil Sanzgiri and writer and programmer Yasmina Price, the afternoon will feature conversation, music, and poetry that invoke liberatory cultural production from the past to meet the urgencies of the present—from Palestine to Haiti to Kashmir to here.

The musicians Luke Stewart and Amirtha Kidambi—both of whom have scored works currently on view in Sanzgiri's Brooklyn Museum exhibition “Here the Earth Grows Gold”—will present a performance of upright bass, voice, and amplifier feedback drawing on the vocabularies of improvised Black and Indian musics. The organizer and scholar Kazembe Balagun will moderate a conversation with Price, Sanzgiri, historian Sameetah Agha, poet Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, and curator Adam HajYahia. The event will close with a reading by Nayeem, who also provided a poetic script for Sanzgiri’s Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) (2023).

When History Wakes is free and open to the public. Masks will be provided for anyone who would like to use one.

How can we connect movements across time and continents? An afternoon of conversation, music, and poetry that recover memories of interrelated struggles....

09/02/2024

Paige K. Bradley, David Horvitz, Ismail Ibrahim, and Nour Mobarak explain mushrooms to you. https://bit.ly/3HUwaIG

06/02/2024

For Harmony Holiday, music and violence go hand in hand. Her late father, Jimmy Holiday, wrote hits for Ray Charles and Jackie DeShannon; but at home, he built up a personal stockpile of guns that came to represent his paranoia and protectiveness. When he died in state custody, his guns disappeared, and Harmony Holiday wants them back. In a new essay, Holiday revises her family’s story, turning her father’s complexities into testimony to the “mythology of American violence.” In the process, she recruits artists, filmmakers, musicians, and writers like Amiri Baraka, James Brown, Gordon Parks, and Kathleen Collins to trace her own “gun-lust” to a deeper, collective inheritance.

How do you reverse disarmament?” An essay on inheriting ballads and guns, tenderness and vengeance—and seeing them as inseparable....

13/12/2023

Much has been written about AI’s capacity to write and create images. But can AI read? Can it meaningfully interpret art and literature? Christina Janus and Desmond Wong, the designers behind the studio AUTHENTIC, proposed a multipart system to probe these questions in the visual identity they developed for our twenty-eighth issue, True to Life. They fed language and images from contributions into a series of image-generating tools, using deep-learning-based text-to-image technologies to turn descriptive prose into literal compositions and growing seed phrases into “glyphic cultures” via Photoshop’s content-aware fill. The results appear on the magazine’s website as title page images and cryptic icons representing the projects.

We’ve just published a poem by AUTHENTIC about language and mark-making alongside a video by Eric Ko, who rendered AUTHENTIC's images and glyphs as elements of a dreamlike world, imagining their origins (or eventualities) as megalithic formations and microscopic cells.

23/11/2023

Join TC at Pioneer Works on December 9 for Live Feed, a series of short multimedia presentations that balances recognition and randomness, much like the streams of content on social media feeds and For You pages. Without glorifying the algorithm (or mining your data), we’re bringing the atomized experience of browsing and scrolling offline.

Benjamin Krusling, Rian Phin, Sydney Shen, imogen xtian smith, and Bijan Stephen will draw on personal archives to showcase digital artifacts—such as a lewd rollercoaster controversy, a reconsideration of Y2K fashion avatars, and a trans oral history project—that reflect the conventions of expression and circulation online, particularly those operating outside the so-called mainstream.

Live Feed is presented in collaboration with Pioneer Works as part of Press Play 2023, a fair of records, books, and artworks from independent presses and labels. Triple Canopy will also have a table at the fair, which is free and open to the public on Saturday, December 9, and Sunday, December 10, from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.

A series of multimedia presentations that navigates digital ephemera and detritus, internet wormholes and fault lines. ...

25/10/2023

“Flare Up” is an excerpt from a novel-in-progress by Katie Kitamura, written in collaboration with Goldin+Senneby as part of a collaborative project on the language of autoimmunity. The research, experiments, and performances undertaken by Goldin+Senneby have fed into Kitamura’s fiction, which, in turn, has influenced the duo’s work.

The first half of the novel centers on a mysterious pine tree with a supercharged immune system (based on Triple Canopy’s stewardship of actual genetically modified pine trees). The second, excerpted in “Flare Up,” tells the story of a scholar who has left the academy for a lucrative career as a Zoom consultant. As she prepares for a gig with a slick biotech firm and worries about burnishing the company’s image, she befriends a stranger whose sense of self (and biological coherence) has come into question due to an illness.

A story about biologics and telepresence, reconfiguring the self and refining corporate behavior. Written in collaboration with [Goldin+Senneby](https://canopycanopycanopy.com/search?tcapi:all_people=tc:person_59396cb99c26980004000038)....

21/10/2023

Two decades ago, Jakob Senneby—one half of the artist duo Goldin+Senneby—slid into an MRI machine and was turned into a “specimen to be mined for data.” After intense bouts of vertigo and numbness, he got a scan that showed white spots on his brain, signs of multiple sclerosis, a chronic, debilitating disease. In the following years, Senneby cycled through experimental (and largely ineffectual) treatments. As he was scanned and prodded, lectured to and prescribed treatments, he began to suspect that pharmaceutical companies were raking in profits by targeting the image of the disease (while erasing the perspectives of patients).

https://canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/crying-pine

27/09/2023

Are you the next “Darren Bader”?

$1 million OBO. A film and essay on the value of an artist’s name, plus a contract for the right to make art as “Darren Bader.”