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**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/amanda-phingbodhipakkiya-tender-commons/299 "2025-11-01T00:50:57Z")
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya: Tender Commons MoMA Creativity Lab, NYC, October 25th, 2025 Explore softness as a way to make and experience art. This participatory textile installation draws on the artist Amanda Phingbodhi… --- ## [Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/asako-tabata-waiting-for-bones/298)
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Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones Seizan Gallery, NYC, October 18th, 2025 When you arrive at Seizan Gallery, you’re at the top of the stairs, and down the left side, you see The Closed Room. (I was hooked). Asako Tab… --- ## [Gordon Matta-Clark: Bingo, 1974 in MoMA's Gallery 400](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/gordon-matta-clark-bingo-1974-in-momas-gallery-400/294)
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I first saw Bingo, 1974 in February of 2024, during “Drop-in Drawing (400: Trisha Brown / Gordon Matta-Clark)” at the MoMA, and it completely activated me. Creation, making the house, the piece, in between, mainte… --- ## [Womens Work at the MoMA](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/womens-work-at-the-moma/289)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/womens-work-at-the-moma/289 "2025-01-30T15:40:24Z")
Womens Work at the MoMA May 2024 & January 2025 fieldtrips Museum of Modern Art, NYC: Gallery 410 It was through Pauline Oliveros’ Accordion & Voice, 1982 that I found my way to Womens Work at the Museum of Modern Art… --- ## [hello and welcome ✨](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/hello-and-welcome/55)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/hello-and-welcome/55 "2021-09-10T12:05:34Z")
You’ve arrived… nice. \[a warm smile for you\] You’re just inside a clearing, far enough away from the noise, where you can see some wildflowers and shady trees, depending on the season. Maybe you can smell the air. If yo… --- ## [Cantando Bajito: Chorus](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/cantando-bajito-chorus/275)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/cantando-bajito-chorus/275 "2024-10-19T23:54:51Z")
Cantando Bajito: Chorus Curated by Roxana Fabius, Beya Othmani, Mindy Seu, and Susana Vargas Cervantes, installed at the Ford Foundation Gallery from October 8 — December 7, 2024. Chorus evokes a twofold meaning: a cho… --- ## [Donna Dennis' Houses and Hotels](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/donna-dennis-houses-and-hotels/272)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/donna-dennis-houses-and-hotels/272 "2024-09-27T02:12:30Z")
Houses and Hotels O’Flaherty’s, NYC, April 14th 2024 The gallery was dark. I wasn’t ready for that. And then I was there (somewhere), there. I didn’t think my eyes would adjust so well. It was nice to just look at them… --- ## [Dia Beacon fieldtrip](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/dia-beacon-fieldtrip/271)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/dia-beacon-fieldtrip/271 "2024-09-14T19:20:45Z")
Dia Beacon August 2024 fieldtrip Photos from my first time at Dia Beacon. What a dayfull! — so much space dedicated to just being with art. I came for Louise Bourgeois’ spider, and frankly, I’m amazed that I found so … --- ## [International Center of Photography at Fifty Curator's Tour photo diary](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/international-center-of-photography-at-fifty-curators-tour-photo-diary/254)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/international-center-of-photography-at-fifty-curators-tour-photo-diary/254 "2024-03-26T20:50:39Z")
On February 8th, 2024, I attended the International Center of Photography at Fifty Curator’s Tour, led by Elisabeth Sherman, where I discovered Sent a Letter, 2008 by Dayanita Singh and it led me to Room 3… --- ## [El abrazo by Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/el-abrazo-by-delcy-morelos-at-dia-chelsea/255)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/el-abrazo-by-delcy-morelos-at-dia-chelsea/255 "2024-03-31T19:03:40Z")
Entering El abrazo felt like being in the earth. Being in it, which is magical, and held by it, the way you are held when in a dreamy field with plenty of time and sky to lay in it, which is familiar and not often enough… --- ## [Seed by Rose B. Simpson](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/seed-by-rose-b-simpson/258)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/seed-by-rose-b-simpson/258 "2024-05-03T23:00:16Z")
Seed by Rose B. Simpson at Madison Square Park Ooh, to be in a place where Rose B. Simpson has made sculpture… Seven eighteen-foot-high steel sentinels assemble in a circular guard, higher faces watching outward, l… --- ## [Goddesses + Emaciation by Sylvia Netzer](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/goddesses-emaciation-by-sylvia-netzer/257)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/goddesses-emaciation-by-sylvia-netzer/257 "2024-04-27T23:09:34Z")
Goddesses + Emaciation by Sylvia Netzer at A.I.R. Gallery Seeing Sylvia Netzer’s Glen-Gery Olympia in Cantando Bajito: Testimonies at the Ford Foundation led me to Goddesses + Emaciation at A.I.R. Gallery, and to learni… --- ## [Cantando Bajito: Testimonies](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/cantando-bajito-testimonies/256)
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Cantando Bajito: Testimonies Curated by Isis Awad, Roxana Fabius, and Beya Othmani at the Ford Foundation Gallery Translated into English as “singing softly,” the exhibition series title is drawn from a phrase used by… --- ## [defining love](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/defining-love/138)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/defining-love/138 "2022-01-21T17:15:05Z")
defining love (a winter love hangout) This, defining love, is the first of nine winter love hangouts. We start with a brief text, but it’s not a book club, not literary criticism; it’s an entry point into a conversatio… --- ## [The Logical Structure of Love](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/the-logical-structure-of-love/203)
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I’m just leaving love study hall. First time back here in quite a while. It’s nice, really nice, to be in conversation and with thinkers about love. It was just me communing with a text, The Logical Structure of Love, an… --- ## [Wintering, by Katherine May](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/wintering-by-katherine-may/166)
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Wintering, The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May “They say that we should dance like no one is watching. I think that applies to reading, too.” is my favorite among many delicious moments s… --- ## [Ask A Parasite](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/ask-a-parasite/191)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/ask-a-parasite/191 "2022-11-13T19:46:59Z")
Last week, I performed in “Ask A Parasite (AAP)”, developed by Floor Grootenhuis in collaboration with members of the Jayne Raper Lab at Hunter College as a co-creation between scientists and the general public. It was … --- ## [Selections from Australia’s Western Desert, From the collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/selections-from-australia-s-western-desert-from-the-collection-of-steve-martin-and-anne-stringfield/190)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/selections-from-australia-s-western-desert-from-the-collection-of-steve-martin-and-anne-stringfield/190 "2022-10-26T12:09:18Z")
A detail from Tjitjiti, 2015, by Carlene West. Synthetic polymer on canvas. I came by twice after getting a glimpse of this work while seated in the exhibition space for a Creative Mornings event, and feeling them ar… --- ## [invitation to conversation](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/invitation-to-conversation/85)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/invitation-to-conversation/85 "2022-06-16T18:10:06Z")
At our next living room picnic, we’ll explore when is it ok to ask for help? As always, our discussion will go where it goes, but for me this topic began as part of continuing to explore our ideas about our bodies, our … --- ## [Our Selves, Photographs by Women Artists](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/our-selves-photographs-by-women-artists/178)
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I attended Our Selves, Photographs by Women Artists, at the MoMA with a friend who could explain things to me. I didn’t understand everything we saw, but the intention of this exhibition, that speaks to me — And … --- ## [govern me harder, by Nora Taruto](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/govern-me-harder-by-nora-taruto/172)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/govern-me-harder-by-nora-taruto/172 "2022-04-11T00:32:46Z")
A couple of views from govern me harder, by Nora Turato — and I’m like dah dah dah dah is it right that blah blah blah blah? and he’ll say yes, but think of THIS follow me you coward for more about Nora Ta… --- ## [In The Future Our Asian Community Is Safe, by Jess X. Snow](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/in-the-future-our-asian-community-is-safe-by-jess-x-snow/171)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/in-the-future-our-asian-community-is-safe-by-jess-x-snow/171 "2022-04-09T16:54:42Z")
A little bit of wander from TriBeCa into Chinatown yesterday afternoon-evening. Spring in the city. You can’t see it here, but streets were teeming with people OUTSIDE among EACH OTHER…still a new post-lockdown experienc… --- ## [Roda das encantadas, by Maria Nepomuceno](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/roda-das-encantadas-by-maria-nepomuceno/169)
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I got lucky. When I visited Sikkema Jenkins & Co. back in Feb, it was for another artist’s work (which was wonderful, left an imprint on me, and I will post about Brenda Goodman’s self-portraits too). It was by chance th… --- ## [a love ethic](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/a-love-ethic/143)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/a-love-ethic/143 "2022-01-28T02:32:11Z")
love ethic (a winter hangout) Here’s where I’d like to open things up — “Awakening to love can happen only as we let go of our obsession with power and domination. Culturally, all spheres of American life—politics, re… --- ## [love recipe](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/love-recipe/146)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/love-recipe/146 "2022-02-08T15:08:44Z")
love recipe (a winter love study hall) Until recently, when I thought of love, which was rare, I generally took love to be a feeling. A feeling inside us, inside them for us, or as a thing passed between us —that someo… --- ## [boundaries](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/boundaries/149)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/boundaries/149 "2022-02-15T15:51:18Z")
boundaries (a winter love study hall) picking up on last week’s winter love study hall, love recipe If love is in the actions we take (or don’t) and how, whether it’s a romantic love relationship or a different expres… --- ## [self-love](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/self-love/154)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/self-love/154 "2022-02-25T16:01:00Z")
self-love (a winter love study hall) Self-love, in a world built on binary, transactional, hierarchical frameworks, where individuals are ever in competition, self-love (where to love, as bell hooks shows us, is to sys… --- ## [radical love](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/radical-love/159)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/radical-love/159 "2022-03-03T18:00:00Z")
radical love (a winter study hall) I’m not looking for easy answers. Just to consider it…even with all the hard and horrible that happens in the world, I’m drawn to radical love - a love ethic…how about you, how does … --- ## [lovingkindness](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/lovingkindness/161)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/lovingkindness/161 "2022-03-11T15:34:42Z")
lovingkindness (a winter love study hall) and practice. The topic of lovingkindness, as described here by Sharon Salzman in Real Love (p.18-19) as a set of actions we can take to strengthen a way of being where love i… --- ## [love for sale](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/love-for-sale/162)
**Author:** [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/love-for-sale/162 "2022-03-18T22:53:15Z")
love for sale (a winter love study hall) Do you think this is the way of things? Provoked by Barbara Kruger to think into the discomfort of where this leads, I invite you to join me in the place where I began my expl… [Next page](https://community.underminingnormal.com/latest.md?page=1)