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on and (un)spiraling for more holes and where to find them
flatland / jan 2022
Flatland presents “More Holes and Where to Find Them,” a booth/event/art show/little moment as part of the sprawling and wonderful Midwest Art Fair happening at Mana Contemporary Sept 9-11. There are too many beautiful contribut/ions/ors to list in these books so don’t miss. Also on the bill: little readings, some films, some performances, some music, maybe some ESP tests, and other telepathic & regular pathic frequencies all weekend. Full schedule forthcoming.
a short and unending daydream into the elsewhere of addiction for an atlas
flatland / jan 2022
An Atlas. With contributions from over fifty artists, An Atlas is a compendium of orientation and re-orientation, a collection of maps, guides, moves, histories, and space(s), zoomed (not capital ‘Z’) out and in to move through the granular to the cosmic. The big idea: what and where is our space: then, now, and the future? Spiral bound, printed in oversize format, and in full color, An Atlas will be released in late January of 2022 and features contributions from:
Aaron Walker, Alberto Aguilar, Alden Burke, Alex Bradley Cohen, Alison Cekala, Annie Raccuglia, Asha Iman Veal, Barbarita Polster, Benjamin Creech, Breanne Trammell, Chris Collins, Chris Reeves, Colleen Keihm, Curtis Miller, Danny Floyd, Deanna Ledezma, Deborah Stratman, Hannah B Higgins, Isaac Vazquez, Jacob Riddle, Jen Delos Reyes, Jenn Smith, Jesse Malmed, Josh Rios, Julia Klein, Juliette Walker, Keaton Fox, Kyle Johansson, Lauren Sudbrink, Lindsey French, Loraine Wible, Maggie Wong, Matt Morris, Nellie Kluz, Never Angeline North, Omür Harmansah, Shir Ende, Simon Anderson, Simone Whitley-Allen, Stella Brown, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Willa Smart & more to come!
a chicago weather repor for the old future’s almanac
flatland / nov 2020(THE) OLD FUTURE'S ALMANAC takes on THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC'S form. If THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC is an ongoing and largely inaccurate forecasting model, sustained by nostalgia, then its seems also a pertinent model to deconstruct and use to examine what we'll call (only temporarily) our NOW TIME (in which predicting anything at all seems a fool's errand). The infinite avalanche of what the cognescenti call the "24 Hour News Cycle" has lead to an endless stream of pontificating and reporting on things deemed eventful, and thus, a near impenetrable molasses of unpredictability.
the body is an ocean, is the world and its edge; is the expanse of the universe kissing mouths with a black hole for the whole black hole catalouge
flatland / march 2019Flatland (working in a special collaboration with Annas) produced the “Hole Black Hole Catalog” a nearly 200 page publication with 30 contributors. The publication prompted artists, writers, and makers to update the Whole Earth Catalog, a magazine from the 1960s and 70s which provided access to tools for living. If the initial “Whole Earth Catalog” was meant as "access to tools," the "Hole Black Hole Catalog," offers "access to holes”: holes are everywhere, just sometimes we can’t see them. This catalog attempts to remedy this.