whittle gristle, an above/ground chapbook, documents my encounters with the exhibit, Necroarchivos de las Americas: An Unrelenting Search for Justice.
These artworks “document and denounce” violent injustices wielded by global power brokers. The exhibit was carefully curated by Dr. Adriana Miramontes Olivas at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Artist include: Carlos Castro Arias, Luis Camnitzer, Regina José Galindo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Felicia Rice, Jennifer González, Gustavo Cazquez, Doris Salcedo, Valaria Tatera and Voluposa Jarpa.
Poems in whittle gristle also interact with writings of Jordan Abel, Mourid Barghouti, Christian Bök, Alice Oswald and Daisy Zamora.