![]() ![]() The series investigates the ways we activate space through language. Triangulating the landscapes she moves through with glacial backdrops in the work of Black conceptual artists and writers, Sabatini Sloan complicates tropes of Alaska to suggest that the excitement, exploration, and possibility of myth-making can also be twinned by isolation, anxiety, and boredom.īorealis is the first book commissioned for the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen. ![]() ![]() She considers the meaning of open spaces versus enclosed ones and maps out the web of queer relationships that connect her to this quaint Alaskan town. In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan observes shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and BlaĬk fellow travelers while feeling menaced by the specter of nature writing. Art about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space-Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan's experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors. ![]()
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