Inuition
As someone who’s applied to some artist residencies in the past, it has felt like an antiquated, exclusive process that takes the intimacy out of the interaction. No one is prioritizing creating intimacy between artists, nor do I necessarily feel my art is always safe among my peers. I think that cutting that anxiety really does subvert the... See more
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
Intuition is not the opposite of rationality, but its precursor. It is not free imagination, but a form of rapid, unconscious pattern recognition built on experience, relationships and contexts that cannot yet be articulated. Intuition knows, but does not know that it knows. It speaks through sensations, pull, resistance, clarity or unease –
... See moreAnna Branten • The Immeasurable
I imagine intuition itself as a neutral field that is simply there, strong for some and weaker for others. With a voice that tells you something about everything you experience, a voice you can choose to listen to or ignore. It observes and tries to pass information to your conscious mind, usually quietly and muttering, but sometimes very loudly.
... See moreAnna Branten • The Last Function of Being Human
A number of people in different states – fatigue, joy, anxiety about the world and with different qualities – reflective, fast, attentive – enter a room. At some point long ago, someone decided that meetings should last one hour. During that hour, an agenda must be covered. A predetermined sequence of control mechanisms. At the end there may be a
... See moreAnna Branten • The Immeasurable
This creates a kind of double reality: the measurable world and the experienced world. Neither of them is “more true”. But we have learned that only one of them is allowed to count. And when we refuse to listen to the other, it does not fall silent – it simply disappears from our language, from our institutions, from our collective ability to think
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