Natasha Issue 2 Release
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
6 - 8 PM
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
6 - 8 PM
Natasha Issue 2 features essays by Eileen Isagon Skyers and Chanelle Adams. The launch event will feature readings from both. In Eyes Without A Face, Eileen traces our coevolution with skeuomorphism across various phases of interface design. In Material Ends and Invisible Portals, Chanelle Adams uses the archives of the Colonial Institute of Marseille to discuss the exploitation of medico-botanical materials in Madagascar and the epistemology of Malagasy healing practices, called pharmacie gasy. She examines the ways in which liberation movements in Madagascar counter the epistemic violence of colonialism, using ancestral technologies to produce radical shifts in reality.
Natasha is a publication of new nonfiction writing. Two writers per issue respond to to a question tailored to their interests by performing new research and writing on the results. We value rigor without jargon, ecosystems over economies, challenging the power relations of knowledge, and the authority of subjective experience. Natasha is edited by Elizaveta Shneyderman and Erin Schwartz.
Chanelle Adams is a writer and researcher based in Marseille. Committed to platforms that prioritize experience as a way of knowing, Chanelle co-launched the web platform for Bluestockings Magazine before later becoming Managing Editor at Black Girl Dangerous and a contributing music review columnist at Bitch Media. With the support of a Fulbright Fellowship, Chanelle completed a Master’s in social sciences at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. You can find her online at chanelleadams.info and on Twitter @nellienooks.
Eileen Isagon Skyers is an artist, writer and curator. She has worked with contemporary art and non-profit arts organizations including Rhizome (New York, NY), the New Museum, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR), and the Digital Museum of Digital Art (Various Locations). Her moving image work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Her first book, Vanishing Acts, was published by LINK Editions (Brescia, Italy) in 2015, and her writing has been published in Wreath, Glass Press of the Future, Web Safe 2k16, Printed Web, and New World UNLTD, among others. She is the creative director of HOUSING, an art space dedicated to artists of color, and she has performed at Downs & Ross (New York, NY), Littlefield (Brooklyn, NY), the Knockdown Center (Brooklyn, NY), Housing Works Books (New York, NY) and Shoot the Lobster (New York, NY). Skyers holds a BA in Philosophy and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) and an MA in Critical Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, (Portland, OR).
Natasha is a publication of new nonfiction writing. Two writers per issue respond to to a question tailored to their interests by performing new research and writing on the results. We value rigor without jargon, ecosystems over economies, challenging the power relations of knowledge, and the authority of subjective experience. Natasha is edited by Elizaveta Shneyderman and Erin Schwartz.
Chanelle Adams is a writer and researcher based in Marseille. Committed to platforms that prioritize experience as a way of knowing, Chanelle co-launched the web platform for Bluestockings Magazine before later becoming Managing Editor at Black Girl Dangerous and a contributing music review columnist at Bitch Media. With the support of a Fulbright Fellowship, Chanelle completed a Master’s in social sciences at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. You can find her online at chanelleadams.info and on Twitter @nellienooks.
Eileen Isagon Skyers is an artist, writer and curator. She has worked with contemporary art and non-profit arts organizations including Rhizome (New York, NY), the New Museum, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR), and the Digital Museum of Digital Art (Various Locations). Her moving image work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Her first book, Vanishing Acts, was published by LINK Editions (Brescia, Italy) in 2015, and her writing has been published in Wreath, Glass Press of the Future, Web Safe 2k16, Printed Web, and New World UNLTD, among others. She is the creative director of HOUSING, an art space dedicated to artists of color, and she has performed at Downs & Ross (New York, NY), Littlefield (Brooklyn, NY), the Knockdown Center (Brooklyn, NY), Housing Works Books (New York, NY) and Shoot the Lobster (New York, NY). Skyers holds a BA in Philosophy and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) and an MA in Critical Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, (Portland, OR).