Volume 3 Issue 1: Time Capsule: Childhood
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The Mobile Library provides a multi-digital exhibiting experience for artists and writers to showcase their work during the pandemic closures. Each publication is unique, pairing artists and writers together at different stages in their career to build a collaborative experience.
This year, Volume 3 will explore the theme of memory with Issue 1 exploring memory, moments, and experiences of childhood. 6 artists and 6 writers responded to our prompt ‘what does it mean to record a moment’ and ‘how do we choose which objects to represent a specific moment of our lives.’
FEB 13, 2023
About
Basak Kilicbeyli is a Philadelphia-based artist who’s from Istanbul, Turkey. She works mainly with textiles. She received her BFA in Graphic Design from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey in 2017. A few years later, in 2021, she received her MFA from the PAFA. She’s currently living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited at FRIEDA, Da Vinci Art Alliance, PAFA, Off the Wall Gallery, and Usagi NY. She participates in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum.
Website: www.basakkilicbeyli.com
Instagram: @basakkilicbeyli
Brock Dethier is a retired English professor and poet. His poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, Utah Life, and many other journals and have been collected in a book, Reclamation, and a chapbook, Ancestor Worship.
Website: www.mappingliteraryutah.org/utah-writers/brock-dethier
Colin Gillespie taught at the Hornsey College of Art and Middlesex University —during which time Gillespie established an Urban Studies Centre and a BA Hons programe in `Art Practice & the Community.’ Since leaving the university, Gillespie worked as a printmaker and freelance art worker, developing printmaking workshops with adults experiencing mental health issues and providing reminiscence sessions in Care Home and Hospital settings. Most of Gillespie’s art practice relates to the experience of living within an urban setting — using print as a way of responding to issues or events that arise such as migration, congestion, pollution, and housing. Gillespie usually works on a fairly small scale and often develop ideas by combining print with collage or assemblage—using `’box’ frames to carry 2D images & 3D ephemera. What does remain important to Gillespie is the balance of time given towards ‘personal’ work and that given towards communal ‘shared' art practice —the latter being mainly based in Day Centers or Mental Health settings. Moving between these two areas of activity helps to give Gillespie a perspective upon the potential, value, and role of art practice.
Website: www.cityprintgill.co.uk
Through drawing, Cristiana Silva elaborates a set of registers where she looks for and explores issues of identity as well as inherent moments, these being fragmented to a unique identity that in turn is dispersed from the initial image captured. By recording several moments of his daily and intimate life, as in an archival manner as well as safeguarding something that is in itself immaterial to safeguard, she revives it again and reinterprets it through constructive processes of drawing, transferring it, that abstract and incapable of replacing to an a Another platform, another support, another purpose.
Website: www.cargocollective.com/CristianaSilva
Instagram: @_cruzamentoduaslinhas
Elaine Haroutunian Reardon is a writer, herbalist, artist, and educator. She’s worked as an English as a Second Language teacher with immigrant populations, and she’s the first generation in the U.S. herself. Her first chapbook, The Heart is a Nursery For Hope, won first honors from Flutter Press Her second chapbook, Look Behind You, was published in late 2019. Most recently Elaine’s poetry and essays have been published in Pensive Journal, Naugatuck Journal, The Wild World, Syncopated Literary, as well as other similar journals and anthologies.
Website: www.elainereardon.wordpress.com
Instagram: @elainereardon33
Twitter @elainereardon33
Elena Grossi (b. 1994) is an Italian artist. She is graduated in Painting (BA) and in Visual Arts (MA) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Her works reflect on the concepts of illusion, memory and distance. Recent solo exhibitions include: In un soffio, Lavì! City, Bologna (2022); Kunst im Wohnzimmer 04 - Elena Grossi, Das Provisorium, Munich, Germany (2019). Selected group exhibitions include: OFF GRID Foto Festival, GREEN DOOR artists space & gallery, Vienna, Austria (2022); Eureka - An Emerging Revelation, 20th DongGang International Photo Festival, DongGang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, South Korea (2022); ARTEFIERA, BolognaFiere, Bologna (2022); Digital Jokes, Die Digitale Festival, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany (2021); V Bad Video Art Festival, Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2021); Light, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea (2021); The Herbarium as a place for storing ideas, SAMCA, Sofia, Bulgaria (2021); In 24- Hours, The Wall Space, Falkirk, United Kingdom (2020); Neighbourhood, Sct. Peders Kirke, Randers, Denmark (2020); Geografie della memoria, Istituto Storico Parri, Bologna (2019); MYSELF, spazio microLive, Milano (2019); Ai piani intimi, Lavì! City, Bologna / Spazio Lavì!, Sarnano (2018); I cieli in una stanza, Fotografia Europea, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia (2016).
Website: www.elenagrossi.weebly.com
Instagram: @_elenagrossi
Gaia Giongo took part in the European vocational training program “Leonardo da Vinci” in Cork, Ireland, where she has been trained for four months in creating animal sculptures with re-use materials, in particular with paper. In 2017 she attended a course of collage technique at the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Rovereto, Italy. The following year, she won the call to artists of the Italian publisher Disegnograve: she wrote and illustrated the short book “The Lazy Magician” (Il Mago di Ozio, in Italian), a feminist reinterpretation of classic stories, using the collage technique. In September 2022 she won the call to artists of the Cheap Festival, a street art festival in Bologna, exhibiting a collage poster on the humans ineffectiveness to tackle the climate change. She is also a PhD student in Gender Studies at the University of Milan.
Instagram: @gaia_giongo
John C. Mannone has poems in Windhover, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, and others. He won the Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest in poetry (2020). He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as the celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). His full-length collections are Disabled Monsters (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2015), Flux Lines (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2022), Sacred Flute (Iris Press, 2023), and Song of the Mountains (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023). He also has three chapbooks of poetry. An Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Alice Lloyd College, John lives in southeast Kentucky.
Website: www.jcmannone.wordpress.com
Facebook: @jcmannone
Layla van der Oord is a Dutch artist living and working in Sweden. She received her MA in fine arts from HDK-Valand, Gothenburg (2021) and her BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2015). Layla works on paper with ink, color pencil, and various printing techniques. During the pandemic, she discovered online storytelling and started making hypertext fictions that one can find at www.laylavanderoord.nl.
Website: www.laylavanderoord.nl
Instagram: @laylavanderoord
Mark Blickley grew up within walking distance of New York’s Bronx Zoo and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Scholarship Award for Drama. Blickley is the author of the story collection Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press, Los Angeles). His multi-genre collaborations with artist Amy Bassin include Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes from the Underground (Moira Books, Chicago) and the text-based art book Dream Streams (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York). His latest book is the flash fiction collection Hunger Pains (Buttonhook Press).
Paul Hostovsky is the author of twelve books of poetry and five poetry chapbooks. He has won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter.
Website: www.paulhostovsky.com
Shaun Anthony McMichael is the editor of the following collections: The Shadow Beside Me (2020) and The Story of My Heart (2021) poetry by youth affected by trauma, mental illness, and instability. Since 2007, he has taught writing to students from around the world, in classrooms, juvenile detention halls, mental health treatment centers, and homeless youth drop-ins throughout the Seattle area. Over 65 of his short stories, poems, essays, author interviews, and book reviews have appeared in publications like The Chicago Tribune, Litro, Bull, Spoon River Review, and more. He lives with his wife and son in Seattle.
Website: www.shaunanthonymcmichael.com
Instagram: @samcmichael
Twitter: @McmichaelShaun
LinkedIn: @shaun-mcmichael