If [the stranger] remains foreign, [her] coming will not cease; nor will it cease being in some respect an intrusion. –Jean Luc Nancy, L’Intrus

Is the artist a stranger who trespasses among us? With an eye to Jean Luc Nancy’s concept of “the stranger,” Mary Walling Blackburn will consider notions of place, ownership and borderlands through the lens of her own artistic practice.

Mary Walling Blackburn is an artist and the founder of the experimental school for women, The Anhoek School. Her most recent projects include Carrying Love is Not Like Carrying Money, a project made for e-flux's Time/Bank at Frieze Art Fair/London and SMS Iran, a collaboration with Naeem Mohaiemen featured at Art Dubai Project Space online. LA><ART screened Black Divine Light (2009) in September as part of The Fuzzy Set and This Head/Is/ Is Better/ For Using/ Than Losing (2009) is displayed at Printed Matter. Walling Blackburn's writing has been published in Afterall, Aperture, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Cabinet Magazine, CTHEORY, lastperformance.org, loudpaper (architectural discourse), Paper Monument and Women and Performance.

Relevant Links

welcomedoubleagent.com (artist's website)

anhoekschool.org (The Anhoek School website)