Tentacular Thinking: A Conversation with Nicola Turner

Nicola Turner’s practice is profoundly ecological. She works with waste material—mainly raw, untreated wool—and reuses it wherever possible. The wool is often sourced from where she lives or where she has been invited to work and/or exhibit, and she employs it, in combination with horsehair, wood, metal, and other recycled materials, to make large-scale, site-responsive forms

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Object Lessons: Pat Oleszko

I created Nora’s Ark: Pa’t Too as a performantz based on the mythic tale of The Flood, with obtuse scrambling of facts and frictions, props and costumes of biblical proportions, and some rigorous puntification, all rendered into a contemporary whorl-d.

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