Crit Cross: Jasmine Amussen

Art Writing beyond Bubbles: The American South: with Jasmine Amussen
Thursday, 16. December, 7pm
ZOOM

How can you crack open the art bubble and bring in new audiences? What role can art writing play in this context? How do you try to create a sustainable context in a place that is often considered culturally “poor” and has suffered from “brain drain” like the American South? and How to put different art practices on the map?, are some of the questions we want to address in this Crit Cross. A Forum on Art Criticism by Verein K and in partnership with Depot – Kunst und Kommunikation. To do so, we reached out to Jasmine Amussen, editor of Burnaway, an Atlanta-based magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South. Publishing online weekly and in print annually, the magazine has brought vital critical dialogue to one of the most politically polarized, historically fraught, ecologically threatened, and economically disadvantaged parts of the United States since 2008. The issues facing Southern artists, institutions, curators, and writers often represent the country’s most pressing social and cultural challenges. Despite this, contemporary art in and from the region receives little national coverage or inclusion in major survey exhibitions, and even less internationally. After an introduction to her practice and the magazine Burnaway, we will have an open dialogue with Jasmine Amussen, faciliatated by Klaus Speidel from Verein K. Given the current situation in Austria, this Crit Cross will happen through Zoom. Here is the link.

The conversation will be facilitated by Klaus Speidel and take place in English.

Jasmine Amussen is a writer and editor of Burnaway, an Atlanta-based magazine of contemporary art and criticism was born in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, she has lived in the South for most of her working life. She is a 2020 MacDowell Calderwood Fellow of Journalism.