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Homing In, Sharing Knowledge: Notes and essays on HISK laureates, 2016-23

The 13 book and catalogue essays, conversations, emails and occasional texts collected here sample a decade or more of work by noted art historian and critical theorist John C. Welchman, Distinguished Professor at the University of California—in studio visits, lectures, workshops and other collaborations—with HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts Advanced Studies & Practice-based Research in Visual Arts) until its summary defunding in 2022. They pay tribute to the creative vitality, powerful, research-driven investigations, and engaged critical thinking of the rich material and conceptual activities of HISK laureates in a full spectrum of media and genres during the last decade or so. The texts offer amplified meditations on the possibilities—but also defaults and limits—of the studio visit and on how this scene of encounter sets engagements with work that are dialogical and critically robust; respectful but also challenging; full of seeing into and through; and tactically combustible,

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Aggiornato il 10/06/2026