I haven’t talked very much about a.gen.cy, despite it being a project I’ve been working on, in some form, for nearly two years at this point. Its genesis came in the aftermath of the 2016 election disaster, and a series of conversations about art as resistance, hosted at Play House […]
Ideas – An Extraordinary Substance: an a.gen.cy lecture series “Ideas— An Extraordinary Substance” is a lecture series that celebrates obsession and ice cream. We ask people obsessively devoted to something to share their research and thoughts with us, and as we listen to their presentation and formulate questions for the Q&A […]
Mundo excited to announce that the next Art in Woodbridge House P(art)Y is just around the corner – literally speaking, if you live in Woodbridge! But whether you do or not, you don’t want to miss this gathering, which pops up at 1525 W. Hancock on Friday, March 30th, from […]
Self-care has become a hot topic these days, evoking ideas of expensive bath bombs and boutique consumerism as a panacea for lives spent struggling against the ravages of late capitalism. But considered another way, self-care is about devoting time, space, and resources to aspects of daily life that contribute to […]
It is time for one of my rare Unpaid and Unsolicited Promotions of Something Awesome. This is a special category I reserve for outstanding effort on the part of sometimes-unsung heroes who are being the change they want to see in this sometimes-motherfucker of a world. Casey Rocheteau is one […]
Detroit’s literary scene is booming. Last week, two local authors held book launches for work that touches deeply on some of the most difficult and most real parts of being human, being black and being female: Desiree Cooper debuted a collection of flash fiction, “Know the Mother,” while Casey Rocheteau–the […]
Artist: Casey Rocheteau Location: Dime Store Breakfast: CR – Coffee (sugar, cream), Voodoo lady blood orange French toast special, 1/2 side order of bacon parm fries SRS – Coffee (black), duck confit reuben, 1/2 side order of bacon parm fries It’s hard to simplify conversations with Casey. Writer-on-writer action tends […]
Artist: Casey Rocheteau Location: Le Petit Dejueuner, Midtown Breakfast: CR & SRS – Coffee (cream & sugar, and black, respectively), scrambled eggs, maple bacon, sweet potato w/ chive sour cream, French toast We didn’t order weirdly samesies breakfast; LPD does things family-style, so we ordered the “Two Can Play That […]
DETROIT — It was a letter-perfect evening in Detroit for the opening last week of Robert Sestok’s long-anticipated sculpture park, City Sculpture. It seemed the weather was as eager as the hundreds of people who attended the festivities to support the longtime Detroit artist and contributor to the Cass Corridor […]
Tonight was the awards ceremony for the 2015 Kresge Fellowships. A lot of things were amazing. First of all, and I cannot overstate the importance of this: I think my hair looked pretty okay. Secondly, I met my two main goals, of not tripping or crying onstage. Pretty much all […]