THEADORA WALSH


is a writer and video artist who makes moving texts, essays, and fragments. She works with the physicality of language and the tension between speech and its documentation. 


Writing in Gulf Coast, sfmoma Open Space, Apogee, Vol 1 Brooklyn, and Unbag. Criticism in Artforum, KQED arts, Art Papers, BOMB, Electronic Book Review, and Afterimage. And an MFA in Digital Language Arts from Brown University. 


WRITING

Prose
Art Criticism
Essays

I Love Repair


VIDEO WRITING

AAAA, BBBB, CCCC & the rest
Subtitle Drift

Live Word Processing

Aberration of the Translator

Horse Players


TEACHING

The Video Essay
Introduction to Digital Writing

Mobile Media Making


Mark

Animals in repose are disturbed by passages of mottled hues that refuse to settle into familiar, nameable shades.


Daisy May Sheff’s Hid it Well in the Walnut Shell for Artforum

the distorted film stock undulates through colors and levels of opacity, sometimes so damaged by time that the picture is nothing more than varying densities of light


Talking Back: Zineb Sedira’s Voice-Over for Art Papers



Breast milk in a sardine can, breast milk colored by a saturated tea bag, breast milk next to a crumpled paper napkin


All the Strings that Bind: Patty Chang at Friends Indeed and Cushion Works, for Variable West


Solar Cry, is heard by feeling, like a hand gently resting on someone’s throat that understands meaning not by language but by way of a trembling in the neck.


Lydia Ourahmane’s صرخة شمسية Solar Cry, for Art Papers


Finger paintings swirl in an aura of anti-staleness. The hand movements of toddlers, fossilized in pigment, graph their own vocabulary


In Rhoda Kellogg’s World Every Child is an Artist, for KQED arts

Not unlike the aesthetic and linguistic immediacy of a graphic T-shirt gone rogue


Gene Berry’s New Mythic Visualizations at Cushionworks, for Artforum



With tenderness and a phenomenologist’s sensitivity, Cogan portrays gently sloped streets and frequented neighborhood stores


Kim Cogan’s Evergreen at Hashimoto Contemporary, for Artforum


While both artists' work suggests intensive studies of the natural, there is also a brutality to the way each prunes away unwanted wildness


Tadaaki Kuwayama and Rakuko Naito at Adrian Rosenfeld, for Artforum


“Cooler-than-you” girl talk and a recollection shaped by the kinds of excisions trauma imposes.


Lydia Ourahmane’s low relief, for Artforum