by Alicia | Sep 11, 2013 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
CHICAGO — Chicago-based documentary filmmaker Ky Dickens’ newest film, Sole Survivor, tells the stories of four of the 14 sole survivors of commercial airline disasters. In other words, these are the people who survived when everyone else perished as the planes fell...
by Alicia | Aug 24, 2013 | News, Online, Press
The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic* essay that I coauthored with LA-based writer Kate Durbin for Hyperallergic’s Tumblr as Art Symposium is featured on Vice.com. But if Jimmy is to be believed, why are are the Tumblr-ers blogging consistently enough to have...
by Alicia | Aug 4, 2013 | Hyperallergic, News
CHICAGO — At its most rarefied levels, art as social practice seems oxymoronic. Is it possible to produce work that jars the elitist art world out of its aesthetic bliss while appearing on its sanctified white walls? Probably not. Cheryl Pope’s solo exhibition Just...
by Alicia | Jun 7, 2013 | Artist Essays, News, Writing
I’m so pleased to share the essay that I wrote for up-and-coming artist, Australian-based Minna Gilligan solo exhibition Feel Flows. Minna contacted me after reading The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic* essay, and asked if I would write a piece for her...
by Alicia | Jun 5, 2013 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
Twins are fascinating. Identical twins embody the visual doubling of a single human, which often calls to mind ideas of cloning. The psychic component of twins suggests that one can complete the other’s thoughts, that they feel the same thing and that, in effect, they...
by Alicia | Jun 4, 2013 | ACRE, Curatorial, News, Online, Performance Anxiety, Press
Thanks Chicago Magazine and Jason Foumberg for naming me one of the six young curators in Chicago to know! Here’s my profile: Alicia Eler Who: She uses the internet and social media to research, organize, and produce exhibitions and essays, on topics like...
