Art
I Took A Trip To The Unknown Language is a collection of fourteen, 8-inch by 6-inch, analogue collages by Ric Kasini Kadour that were made in September 2023 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Sanquhar, Scotland. Each collage illustrates a line of a poem that was...
Art
The series “That Summer…” is a reflection on my own youth as a queer boy and the relationships I had with friends and all the charged feelings that came with them. In the past few years, my art practice has been concerned with heady ideas of epistemology,...
Art, Zine
“Ozymandias” is a collection of eight analogue collages that use the last Bank of England one pound note (issued in 1984) and a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem to meditate on the hubris of empire and late-stage capitalism. Ozymandius 6 (detail)...
Art, Cultural Work
Overview The Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art is a permanent collection of international collage art at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland. The contributing artists are referred to as Veterans of Schwitters’ Army. The Schwitters’ Army Project is a...
Art, Photography
Post 2528 11″x15″ print on 90 lb Fabriano cold press watercolor paper, 2021 A dry pool behind a chain link fence, worn down buildings in the desert, storm clouds loom, flowers bloom in the crusty soil, Ric Kasini Kadour’s America’s Promise...
Art, Ongoing Projects
Pod Tower Living: Indian Hill, Pawlet, Vermont 130”x30”; artist-designed and printed wallpaper hand-cut collage on photomontage of artist photographs printed on 230gsm 9.5-mil matte fine-art paper; 2020 About the Project The year is 2062. Climate change, political and...
Zine
I see zine making as an extension of my art practice and an outgrowth of my interest in art products. I like making little books that I can sell cheaply. And I enjoy the zine community. For many years I participated in Montreal’s Expozine and in 2016 I exhibited...
Art, Prints
The Sanquhar Series is a collection of collage prints I made during my artist residency at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland during January and February 2020. I find walking and photographing a great way to learn about a new place. I spent a lot of time walking when...
Cultural Work, Writing
OEI #86-87: Publishing Practices, Publishing Poetics OEI is a Stockholm, Sweden-based cultural magazine and literary project run by Jonas (J) Magnusson and Cecilia Grönberg. OEI exists “for extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing...
Art, Photography
Gold in the Bark of the Locust Tree by Ric Kasini Kadour 20″ x 30″; archival print with 18 carat gold leafing; 2018, Edition of 3 Finding Gold Ten photographs by Ric Kasini Kadour A time capsule, the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, Vermont was designated a National...
Art, Cultural Work
In January and February 2020, I am the Artist-in-Residence at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland. The residency and film documentation are supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland. About MERZ Gallery Located in the former lemonade factory in...
Art, Photography
Between 2010 and 2012, I made 226 photographs under a project I called “These Lights and Shades.” I took inspiration from the lines of a Walt Whitman poem, “These lights and shades, this drama of the whole, This common curtain of the face contain’d in me for me, in...
Cultural Work, Curation
Ghost Barns (Nether Roscoe) by Meg Walker70″x43″x33.25″; mixed media; 1999.Courtesy of the artist ART EXHIBITION Structures August 24th to October 27th, 2019 at Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, Vermont Exhibit OpeningSaturday, August 24th, 11AM-5PM as...
Art
The Kunstkammer Historically, Kunstkammers were magical places. A precursor to the museum, they originated in the castles and manors of European nobility in the sixteenth century. They held collections of various, dissimilar objects that demonstrated the owner’s...
Writing
This essay originally appeared in Kolaj #24. A quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage, our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. Visit...
Art, Zine
Where My Pet Rock Came From Late stage capitalism sucks. We live in a time of unprecedented resources and technology. Yet, no one seems happy. People seemed overly concerned someone else is trying to get one over on them. Folks are obsessed with money and how to pay...
