A few photographs from the recent performance of my Floriography I (Coimbra 1541) and Floriography II (Bavaria 1543), a diptych of text-integrated video installation. They were presented at Catalysis Projects’ MicroTextual performances at MiMoDa Studio in Los Angeles, curated by Aron Kallay. In the background is the projection of my video installation, and in the foreground we...
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In April, I did a wee interview with curator Aron Kallay of Catalysis Projects. It’s for reading online here. Check out the other artist interviews on the blog – good stuff! Here is a small excerpt from the interview with Aron: As artists and audiences, I think it’s very important that we get...
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My story-poem suite now exists in the world of ink and paper. The Useless Eaters/Die Nutzlosen Esser appears in the current issue of Denver Quarterly, which can be purchased where books are sold but as those spots are as rare as mudfluppers and veeeperblixas, you might want to order it here. A real live...
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My diptych of new video-integrated text performance pieces Floriography I (Bavaria, 1095) and Floriography II (Coimbra 1541) will premiere at Catalysis Projects' MICROTEXTUAL in Los Angeles next weekend. Floriography I (Bavaria, 1095) is performed by Philip Shakhnis in English and Hebrew, with text, photographs and field recordings. It is paired with Cal Arts composer...
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I'm happy they've included a snippet from a larger piece of mine in text and image, called The Little Kretschmar...about the Aktion T4 medical killings in Berlin. This piece is called GERHARD KRETCHMAR TAKES HIS SON TO TIERGARDENSTRASSE FOUR. It starts with sex, and then everything goes badly from there.
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Visual artist Quintan Ana Wikswo has been awarded a 2011 ARC/Durfee Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, in support of the video text installations of her prose poetry during the six month solo exhibition of her photography and text at the Smithsonian-affiliated Center for Jewish History and Yeshiva University Museum in Chelsea, NYC.
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The studio is the manure pile in the slaughterhouse of art: mostly shit and indignity, but very rich in nutrients. Perhaps that is the most important part – the humility of beginning with scraps and growing shoots from the muck. Of finding promise and perhaps transcendence in ignomy and struggle and mistake: the fecund...
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My new artist’s book, SCHWARZER TOD AND THE USELESS EATERS, has been published in hardcover by Catalysis Projects and is now available on Amazon.com…soon to be followed by a selection of independent booksellers, and the Catalysis Projects website. It’s 40 pages of a prose poem suite and companion photographs from outside Strasbourg. The text...
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Lost and with few options, again and again I went into private Tunisian homes to find women who could give me directions. They were thrilled, warm, kind, shy at first but curious and deeply intelligent. Many had never seen a foreign woman before. They wanted to help. But they could not read or write...
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It took straight white people being shot in Tucson before folks begin to say it's gone too far. For nearly everybody else, endemic hate behavior in Arizona has been a basic fact of life and death. When I lived in Tucson and worked on the Tohono O'Odham Nation, I worked in government- and NGO-run...
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The women took a photograph of the sign (as, clearly, did I) before reaching in their jacket pockets to remove a small translation dictionary. As they pieced together a meaning in four languages, their shoulders sagged, one of the women gasped, her body caving inwards as the camera dangled heavily from its wrist strap...
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Right on the heels of its global screenings throughout France, Germany, Taiwan and ten cities in the United States, my collaborative single-channel video/video installation WATERLAND has been released by Catalysis Projects and is available for purchase online at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/veronikakraus
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