Shieko Reto’s GIFS
Colleague Shieko Reto has been making some awesome retro GIFs addressing aspects of trans life and everyday politics in Malaysia. Here’s a selection of some of my favorites along with…
Colleague Shieko Reto has been making some awesome retro GIFs addressing aspects of trans life and everyday politics in Malaysia. Here’s a selection of some of my favorites along with…
Peace Seekers by Kabul Knights Yesterday, I opened my email to read about the deadly attack on the Hazara demonstration on July 23rd in Kabul, Afghanistan. I had received a message…
Riparian Sheet created by Drew Cameron at the Veterans Memorial in San Francisco, 2016. On June 9th, the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries hosted a one-day public Combat Paper and…
While on a trip to Istanbul last December, I spoke with Ezgi Bakcay, a curator and member of Karşı Sanat, a local artist run space and cooperative. She told…
My old buddy Christopher Kardambikis caught up with me at the LA Art Book Fair last month to do an interview for his NYC-based Clocktower radio show Paper Cuts, devoted…
A couple weeks back I got to do a live interview, about Justseeds, with Yodet Gherez of Circled A Radio in the UK. You can give it a listen below…
Audio Interference is a podcast by Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY, a volunteer-run archive of material culture produced in social movements. Interested in the capacity of audio to capture oral…
“What is JustSeeds and why are collectives important?
Justseeds is a cooperative of 30 socially-engaged artists and activists scattered across north America whose work addresses themes of social justice, environmental justice, gender quality, prison reform, veteran advocacy and so on.
Portland hip-hop MC, organizer, radio wrangler and colleague Mic Crenshaw is currently on tour through multiple nations of Sub-Saharan Africa with the Afrikan Hip-Hop Caravan. The Caravan is a traveling…
This summer, right on the heels of the public opening of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Zach Furness (author: One Less Car, editor: Punkademics) set up a long-form email interview with…
Jaime Lowe’s interview begins: “The first time I saw Whore Paint, a self proclaimed-feminist, Riff Rock/No Wave/Crooner Shred hybrid band out of Providence, RI, I was immediately 16 again and…
Chris Stain grew up writing graffiti in his hometown of Baltimore, and kept at it in spite of a handful of arrests…
Hannah Dobbz is the Pittsburgh-based author of Nine-Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States (AK Press), an effort at framing a new understanding of what it…
So, my band Whore Paint went on tour this winter on the west coast with our amazing friends Trophy Wife and we’ve got a snazzy video folks at KDVS college…
In March 2009, headlines told us that “the last jaguar in the United States” had died in the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona after being snared in the wild during a…
My friend Daniel Tucker is working on a new research project about art and activism called “Never the Same: Conversations About Art Transforming Politics & Community in Chicago & Beyond.”…
There has never been a movement for social change without art and culture being central to that movement. Music, graphics and the written word are powerful living reminders of struggles…
Hey Yinz! Justseeds’ Mary Mack Tremonte will be a special guest star on Radio Free Pittsburgh on WPTS this Sunday March 27th from 1:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon. Tune…
An extensive interview that I recently did with Aaron Hughes of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) has just been published by Half Letter Press (Temporary Services’ publishing wing). As…
My friend Chris Bravo just sent along this great short video/interview piece with Avram Finkelstein, one of the early AIDS activists in NYC and member of the Silence=Death Project. It’s…
I just realized that this nice group interview Milwaukee artist Brandon Bauer, creater of the Random Artwork blog, did with a bunch of us in Justseeds never got reposted here….
I just found this interview artist Kevin McCloskey did with Shinzaburo Takeda, the artist who taught the ASAR-O collective in Oaxaca, Mexico. Read the full interview here in the e-zine…
My pal Tod Seelie was recently interviewed by Revel in New York. Tod is a tireless photographer and is always helpful and generous with his tools. Photos for the Threat…
DJ Aztec Parrot and Elida Margarita Bautista of Berkeley KPFA’s Radio 2050 invited Jesus Barraza and I (Melanie Cervantes) to do a radio interview about our political artwork. We talked…
I was just thinking the other day of interviewing my buddy Chris, for this here blog. And as I was looking over the Gothamist site, for updates on the cyclist…
Hey folks! I am enclosing an interview I conducted with Nicolas Lampert on a porch in the summer time in Milwaukee in 2004. The entire interview is enclosed below. Enjoy!…
1. Explain to us the creative process that goes into making one of your pieces. Do you collaborate or work alone? I pretty much work alone. I will usually ask…