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Local artists take on the criminal justice system in new exhibit
"For video artist Kirsten Leenaars, “envisioning justice” is about building strong communities even in the face of incarceration."
Interview: Kirsten Leenaars: (Re)Housing the American Dream
Interview with Kirsten Leenaars about documentary project: (Re)Housing the American Dream.
Review by David Mark Wise Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer at Contemporary Workshop, Chicago
New City, April 17, 2008 Kirsten Leenaars’ Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer is a fragile and vulnerable video installation now showing...
Review EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum
Review by Lorix Waxman (Chicago Tribune) EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum. Review: https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/...
Everyday Resistance in the Art Space
Women in Art Today Introduction: Everyday Resistance in the Art Space by Jeffreen M. Hayes Art is one of the few spaces where the...
Episode 636: Haller Baggesen and Leenaars, interview Bad at Sports
Listen to the interview: http://badatsports.com/2018/episode-636-haller-baggesen-and-leenaars/ Lise Haller Baggesen and Kirsten Leenaars...
WVYC Perspectives with YCP Artist in Residence Kirsten Leenaars
Listen to the interview about the artist’s practice and process, inspiration and the show (Re)Housing the American Dream up at York...
Bad at Sports review: A World of Pain
Guest post by Lise Haller Baggesen for Bad at Sports The Doris Salcedo show, recently on view at the MCA, was a hard one to watch. Not...
Curatorial Text #thisistomorrow by Jose Ruiz
EXHIBITION/CURATORIAL STATEMENT “I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to...
COMP Magazine Interview Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience
Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP...
Essay by Lori Waxman: Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness
Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness By Lori Waxman Art historians don’t usually write about happiness. It...
Inside/Within Interview
KIRSTEN LEENAARS’S OPERATIC COORDINATIONS Kirsten is a Dutch artist whose minimal and open studio is found within her home on the north...
“Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”
Critical Inquiry http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/info/, “Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”by Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D.,...
Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman on RISK
Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman, curators of RISK: Empathy, Art And Social Practice talk about the show on Bad At Sports LISTEN...
Kirsten Leenaars: Aesthetics and Social Practice
– POSTED BY MATT ROBINSON ON FEBRUARY 13, 2014 – I had the pleasure of conversing with artist Kirsten Leenaars. We talked social...
WBEZ 91.5: An MCA Soap Opera
Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the MCA, October 16, 2012. Listen here. In 2011,...
Sounding out Useful Pictures
Sounding out Useful Pictures, 2013 , a conversation about love, care and making. Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with artist Adelheid...
How To Get To Mutualisms
BAD AT SPORTS, September 7, 2011 Several months ago, I was invited to share a blog with a stranger. On that blog, I was asked to write...
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