Talker #9: Clifford Owens

Talker #9: Clifford OwensTALKER is an interview zine about performance. Issue #9 is a conversation with artist Clifford Owens. He is based in Jersey City, New Jersey, and his work focuses on the body in relation to the power dynamics of race, masculinity, class and the fragility of social structures. It also closely examines the significance of photography in performance making and its histories. His project Anthology responds to the absence of a performance history that

There’s following intuition4

Given that the material used seems to be of no value

In this publication being promiscuous means taking agency within and beyond the shared context of structurally dispassionate cultural and educational institutions that require innovation

the Bloodless Murder [Beskrovnoe ubiystvo] group included artists such as Vera Ermolaeva

What we need are alternative frameworks or mindsets for decision making that consider solutions along with their risks and implications

and interviews

and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit

Eine solche Grafiker-Karriere gibt es nur einmal: Celestino Piattis (1922–2007) Bilder haben sich in das kollektive Bewusstsein eingeprägt

Diane Dufour and Wang Bing allows the filmmaker to review his practice and the fundamental aspects of his work

Rayne Schulman

offering an unusual insight into Lavrin's Balkan legacy

Authors and photographers observed