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Gretchen Coombs

Gretchen Coombs lives and works in Brisbane, Australia, where she teaches in the School of Design at Queensland University of Technology. Her interests include art and design criticism/activism.

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An Online Project Documents Settler Violence Around the World

by Gretchen Coombs November 14, 2019November 15, 2019

Deathscapes features hard data and articles pertaining to Indigenous issues and custodial deaths, and case studies and artwork responding to deaths worldwide.

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From Oyster Shells to Cardboard Bales, the Politics of Everyday Materials

by Gretchen Coombs July 6, 2017

Material Politics explores how socioeconomic growth, rapid gentrification, increased mobility, the rise of digital technology, and lasting colonial legacies impact the materials used in Australian art.

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Artists Share Their Personal, Tragic Experiences in Health and Care

by Gretchen Coombs August 5, 2016August 8, 2016

In the small foyer of the 8th Floor gallery, a video shows artist Carmen Papalia with a bullhorn in place of a cane — Papalia, who is blind, beckons those who pass him as he strolls the sidewalk of a busy Vancouver street, making a public declaration of his need to cross.

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In a Tea Ritual, Stopping Time and Reflecting on War with a Veteran

by Gretchen Coombs February 5, 2016February 5, 2016

As we sat in a circle, Aaron Hughes began Tea by describing where he was in February 2003: watching the snow fall in his barracks while his fellow American troops were being deployed to Kuwait for the Iraq war.

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A Performance Satirizes the Policing of Public Space

by Gretchen Coombs January 26, 2016January 26, 2016

HOBART, Tasmania — She glared and said, “You don’t have a photo pass so get back behind the cones.”

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A Shrine to the Many Faces of Resistance

by Gretchen Coombs December 14, 2015December 13, 2015

LOS ANGELES — A lone protestor currently occupies one of the rooms of a former apartment in Koreatown.

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At Venice Biennale, Artists Stage a Pageant for Precarious Workers in Abu Dhabi

by Gretchen Coombs September 1, 2015September 22, 2015

VENICE — When I arrived in Venice three weeks ago, I immediately headed to the tip of the Donsoduro to S.a.L.E. docks, a contemporary art space run by artist and activist Marco Baravalle. As part of its Biennale programming, the G.U.L.F. was set to have the Precarious Workers Pageant that evening.

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Three Days of Debating Social Justice at the Venice Biennale

by Gretchen Coombs August 26, 2015September 3, 2015

VENICE — As folks streamed into the dimmed theater and escaped the Venetian heat, I felt a sense of anticipation. Creative Time, which has been showcasing its support of socially engaged art practices for decades, made its way into the Venice Biennale’s central exhibition All the World’s Futures, organized by Okwui Enwezor.

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Reflections on a Weekend Devoted to Socially Engaged Art

by Gretchen Coombs April 29, 2015

BRISBANE, Australia — On the flight between Pittsburgh and Detroit, I felt art’s potential: Open Engagement 2015’s socially engaged projects had responded to the national discourse on social and racial justice.

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