Pressed Coffee 09: July 10 - 17
This week’s Pressed Coffee includes a conversation with artist Gerald Collins, more updates on Art Museum resistance, and Lula, among other things.
Gerald Collins, The Unified Field.
“We have to fight to make sure our children can walk through a better world than the one we are in currently. As an artist...I kind of had to put a pause on speaking about any work for a minute and just speak to these issues. I have not released projects I’ve been doing because I needed to speak on more important things going on in the world. This holds more weight to me than me just putting out artwork.”
– Gerald Collins in Pressed Coffee Conversation 04 with Cameron Harrison
Politics & Society
July 10
TikTok Teens Are 'Going to War' Against the Trump Campaign After Republicans Call to Ban the App
I love Gen Z lol
By Shelly Banjo and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou for Time Magazine
July 14
A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.
After Grace stole a classmate’s phone, his mother wanted to press charges despite Grace having returned the phone soon after stealing it. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve witnessed my classmates in High School and middle school—classmates of Non-black and class privilege—steal phones from others, steal equipment from school, do so much damage to individuals, but never once had the cops called on them nor faced any punitive consequences. Why would a grown woman want to press charges for a cell phone; why get the police involved? There’s more to the story than this, but systemic racial and class injustices hang over all of it.
Written by Jodi S. Cohen for ProPublica
Arts & Culture
July 16
Former SFMOMA Staffers Demand “Radical Reexamination” of Board of Trustees
xSFMOMA, what the org who is fighting for institutional change at SFMOMA is known as, say that these demands should not only be taken up at the Modern Art museum in San Francisco, but within museums across the country as well.
Reported by Sam Lefebvre for Hyperallergic
Always
MOCAD RESISTANCE
Don’t forget it!!
Visit MOCADResistance.com to check out the movement’s most recent posts. I found the one about Community Partners to be heartbreakingly harrowing.
If you’re a Detroit area art work or artist, please consider signing your name to this open letter in support of MOCAD Resistance.
Selected Long Writing…
I Don’t Want To Believe
I was thoroughly entertained by this bluntly personal narrative that ties itself in to the X-Files. Brad Phillips breaks his woes (along with woes of the popular television show) down into two parts: 1. Less Serious and 2. More Serious.
Written by Brad Phillips and published in Affidavit
Photo of Gerald Collins by Andre Moore
this week we chatted with detroit-based artist gerald collins about the happenings and reaction going on at home, as well as the impact of the pandemic on his practice. known in some circles for his immersive light installations, gerald’s attitude towards making art is earnest and often introspective. active and social viewership within one of gerald’s spaces is without a doubt an experience that touches your core, even if only for a fleeting moment. i believe that dealing with trauma and the growth that comes after is an important and often neglected aspect of our social network. by sitting within ourselves for a moment and or outside of ourselves with others, perhaps we can find something lasting to fill that empty void. i hope this conversation finds you all in good spirits. be safe and healthy forever.
- cameron
♡LULA♡
Lula working remotely late into the night!
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