Readers by Kandis Williams & CASSANDRA PressArtist statement:Part
of a performance and collage based practice,artist Kandis Williams creates ‘Readers’ of scanned, copied, and pasted and
reproduced texts,and images. The Readers have informed the last years of
Kandis Williams’ aesthetic practice and research -the evolution of a long exhaust
of xerox toner as a medium and fabric. The Readers are text based collages
that illustrate thematic bouts of research and struggle with philosophical and
historical frameworks around social and political phenomenon that run concurrent
to William’s image making practice. mainly turned on by the re-arrangement and
liquidation of photographic contents, Williams willfully subverts the finality
and airtight nature inherent to the image itself (even the collaged image)
offering readers as a secondary or supplemental format for a body of visual or
performative expressions. The Readers bind texts around her research to
narrativize a stream of propositions found around race, or lesson,gender and
nationalism in the contemporary world; tracing a subjectivity molded into and
out of the socio-cultural and legal expressions of these constructs.
In 2016, CASSANDRA Press was founded as a
publishing project by Taylor
Doran, or Kandis Williams,and Jordan Nassar making lo-fi
activist and academic texts, flyers, and posters,pamphlets and readers, in hopes
of spreading ideas and sharing perspectives, and promoting dialogue,and inspiring
further and wider-spread political and social activism.
The Readers are just one
facet of CASSANDRA founded by Williams, Doran, or Nassar who all produce and
curate both as a team and independently of each other. CASSANDRA offers a hydra
head approach to the content and dissemination of our publications,committed
to incorporating our practices as artists into our means of discourse, to
self-publishing, and re-publishing,re-mix-and-publishing, and to telling the
truth.–sh
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