UNLOADED IN NATURE.COM

UNLOADED, curated by Susanne Slavick, is discussed in Loaded objects: addressing gun violence through art in the gallery and beyond, by Annie Dell’Aria in nature.com, Palgrave Communications 6, #15, 2020. Features works by UNLOADED artists Natalie Baxter, Mel Chin and Stephanie Syjuco among other artists.

Image: Stephanie Syjuco, Standard Issue Smith & Wesson, 2006, downloadable pattern for fillet crochet

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Beyond 'Thoughts and Prayers: Gun Violence, Activism, and Controversy in Contemporary Art

Susanne Slavick presents Disarming Arms on this panel organized by Annie Dell’Aria at the College Art Associations 107th Annual Conference.

Thursday, February 14 at 6:30pm

New York Hilton Midtown Trianon Ballroom

Other panelists include:

“The Most Fascinating and Well-Designed Artifacts of Our Time“: Collecting and Exhibiting Contemporary Guns in the Art Museum

Michelle Millar Fisher, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Disarming Arms

Susanne Slavick, Carnegie Mellon University

Feeds and Triggers: On Martin Roth’s In November 2017 I collected a plant from the garden of a mass shooter (2017)

Arnaud Gerspacher, Graduate Center, City University of New York

“Why don't they buy their own billboard . . . ?” Guerrilla Strategies, Media Infiltration, and the Role of Art in the Wake of School Shootings

Nicole Scalissi, University of Pittsburgh

Report US: Humanizing the Statistics

Eileen Boxer

On Repealing the Second Amendment with Art

Joshua Smith, Artist

Image: Jessica Fenlon, Ungun, video

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