Category Archives: Cultural Inquiry

ICI Associate Christel Dillbohner in New Exhibition

Christel Dillbohner, a long-time ICI associate, was featured in a show titled TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape. The exhibition ‘offered meditations on nature through visual explorations of an inherent language and relationship to the earth that is at once … Continue reading

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Associate Anna Ayeroff in Exhibition

ICI associate Anna Ayeroff work was included in a recent exhibition titled Myths of Progress: Utopic Dreams/Dystopic Realities. Her work included a multi-media installation that explores her family’s personal history in Clarion, Utah—a Jewish farming colony that was originally envisioned … Continue reading

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Karen Frimkess Wolff in New Exhibition

ICI supporter and 100/10 curator Karen Frimkess Wolff exhibited her work at UN-SPACE GROUND 2012 on February 25. The show was curated by Deborah Oliver & Ed Woodman for the College Art Association meeting at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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The ICI website switch over to cloud hosting

At the beginning of February 2012, the Institute of Cultural Inquiry’s (ICI) website switched over to the cloud.  What is the cloud, you may ask? It is not to be confused with Apple’s iCloud, which stores your music, photos, documents, … Continue reading

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Associate Review – East Bay Express, February 22, 2012

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ICI associate Christel Dillbohner’s recent exhibition titled TERRAIN: Exploring the Language of Landscape was reviewed in the February edition of the East Bay Express, a publication out of Oakland, California. Read the review online HERE, or read an archived version … Continue reading

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ICI New Visualist-in-Residence Julene Paul

The ICI would like to welcome our newest Visualist-in-Residence, Julene Paul. Her proposed project is an exploration of memory and its visual representation in space, taking the visual exterior of a city as a starting point and investigating the worlds … Continue reading

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SPECULATIVE PENTIMENTI Press Release

Speculative Pentimenti: Painting in an Age of Endarkenment May 5 – 26, 2012  Opening Reception: Saturday, May 5, 7-9 pm We are living through a dark age. An age of, if you like, endarkenment—and I don’t necessarily mean that negatively. … Continue reading

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Phantoms Rising – The Freedom Tower in NYC

Even in its digital phantom, the photograph qua photograph belies cultural anxieties. Ten years later and the site of 9/11′s most horrendous act is still ‘under construction.’ The view from a Bowery Street vantage point, reveals a half-built Freedom Tower … Continue reading

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Forget Fela Kuti

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On 3 August 1997, Fela’s brother, Olikoye-Ransome Kuti already a prominent AIDS activist announced his younger brother’s death a day earlier from Kaposi’s sarcoma which was brought on by AIDS. Fela Anikulapo Kuti was 59 when he died of AIDS in … Continue reading

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