Dear reader,
We’re pleased to provide you with a sense of what we’ll be doing in 2019, if all goes according to plan. Please feel free to communicate your thoughts, propose ideas, join us on tour, quote us with or without citation, and so on.
As we’ve reckoned with the impulses and conditions that have animated our work over the past ten years, we’ve developed a new issue, Two Ears and One Mouth, which we’ll launch in the spring. Two Ears and One Mouth will examine how we speak and listen—and the technologies that condition and capture our communications—as well as who has the right and capacity to be heard. The issue hinges on two major projects: Omniaudience, a year-long residency at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles that considers the role of listening, the settings in which speech and sound can be heard and have a meaningful effect; and “Parts of Speech,” a series of experimental lectures and an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, organized with Public Fiction, that address the use of language to mold opinion, forge intimacy, marshal authority, and orchestrate movements. (Details of “Parts of Speech” will be revealed later this month, and more information about Omniaudience will be shared in the spring.)
In the fall, Triple Canopy will participate in the RISD Museum’s “Raid the Icebox Now,” which presents a series of projects by artists that hinge on research in the museum’s collections (and celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of “Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol”). Triple Canopy’s contribution will begin with an installation within the RISD Museum’s Pendleton House, which was built in 1906 to exhibit Charles Pendleton’s collection of early American painting and decorative arts. The installation will act as the foundation for a new issue that will be devoted to fictions of nationalism. The issue will ask how we understand ourselves and others through the circulation of goods, the branding of native expressions, and the repurposing of foreign styles.
What else? In the coming months, we’ll debut an open-source publishing tool that automatically outputs essays and artworks to a variety of digital (and print) formats, along with a series of workshops with publishers and technologists in New York and elsewhere. As the year progresses, we’ll also rethink Triple Canopy’s digital presence and create the fourth iteration of the magazine’s online platform. And we’ll pull the trigger on an ear-bending podcast that, finally, will grant access to the earth-shattering conspiracy theories and severely underrated classic rock anthems that dominate our conversations at the office—and are the true lifeblood of the magazine. Finally, we’ll publish or present works by, among others, Gregg Bordowitz; Jesse Chun; Barbara Hammer; Adam Khalil, Zach Khalil, and Jackson Polys; Hari Kunzru; Carolyn Lazard; Tiona Nekkia McClodden; Tomeka Reid; Derica Shields; Astra Taylor; Christopher Kulendran Thomas; Julio Torres; and Henry Zhang.
We look forward to sharing the ether with you.
Regards,
Alexander Provan
Editor, Triple Canopy