929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the release of the eleventh issue of Portable Gray, a publication that draws on the work of the Gray Center, a research center for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars. The theme of this issue is Borders, Edges, Language: If language is commonly understood to be the primary means through which people come to understand one another, allowing us to cross the boundary of self, then this issue of Portable Gray looks at the interchanges of how borders are formed and transgressed by and through language. Contrarily, contributions in this edition demonstrate that if language is a vehicle for communication and agreement, it is necessarily the space where meaning gets confused and precipitates contestation. The Gray Center is also happy to announce that this issue inaugurates our new reviews section, Portable Gray Review (PGR).
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Editor’s Plaisance
Zachary Cahill
The Artist as Typographer
Tom McDonough
Lexicon
Iman Issa
Eight Phonemes and the State of Children’s Literature
Leah Feldman and Slavs and Tatars
Asylum-Seekers Should Be Allowed to Work in Chicago
Susan Gzesh
Enclosures, Borders, Heritage, Home, Revolution
Nazafarin Lotfi
For the Living: A Conversation with Tiffany Chung
Mark Philip Bradley
Awi’nakola
Rande Cook, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Kelly Richardson, Paul Walde, Nikki Sanchez, and Stephanie Smith
The zAIonist Imagination
Itamar Francez
Every State is a Gangster State: Portable Edition
Duncan Mackenzie and Christian Kuras
Superstitious Architecture
Stephanie Cristello
Notes on Skateboarding
Tina Post
Portable Gray Review (PGR)
Mona Hatoum: Early Works
Nicky Ni
The Insect Asylum
Ellen Wiese
Natasha Moustache: Lerozyon (L-EURO-ZHUHN)
Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil
Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
Jessica Musselwhite
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Upcoming issue
Paraäcademia: featuring contributions by Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, Adrienne Brown, Taylor Byas, Sabrina Craig, Rachel DeWoskin, Meredith Dincolo, Anthony Elms, Calvin Forbes, Melissa Friedling, Janel Galnares, vanessa german, Corinne Halbert, Anna Searle Jones, Britt Julious, Maud Lavin, Sungjae Lee, Lana Lin, Matthew Metzger, Tim Moder, Natty Bwoy, Nicky Ni, Duane Powell, Mallory Yanhan Qiu, Michael Taussig, Regina Victor, Ellen Wiese, Joy Young, and Tara Zahra.
Executive Editor: Seth Brodsky / Editor-in-Chief: Zachary Cahill / Senior Editor: Mike Schuh / Managing Editor: Naomi Blumberg / Contributing Editor: Sabrina Craig/ Design: David Khan-Giordano / ISSN 2637-8361.
About the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is a forum at the University of Chicago for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars. Gray Center activities take place all over campus (encompassing various divisions, departments, and programs), across the community, throughout the city, and beyond. Through its various programs—including the Mellon Residential Fellowships for Arts Practice and Scholarship, exploratory research initiatives, the monthly Sidebar conversation series, Gray Sound, an experimental music and sound performance series, international conferences, and institutional collaborations—the Gray Center seeks to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation at the intersection of arts practice and scholarship.
Press contact: Mike Schuh, Gray Center Assistant Director of Fellowships and Operations, at mikes1 [at] uchicago.edu.
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States
