LEIMERT PARK PLAY-TEST
Documentation from an Afro-Rithms gathering at the Black Speculative Arts Movement festival in September 2019.
SPIRIT MOLECULE REPORT
Exhibition documentation from MSU Broad.
BUY THIS PRINT!
Announcing the first Twelve Earths edition: “Twelve Urns and Circles,” by Michael Jones McKean.
WORLD-BUILDING, AT NEUEHOUSE
An event with the creators of the Afrofuturist Podcast to play-test a new game for radical imagining, whose goal is to co-speculate in visions of equitable futures.
MSU BROAD COLLAB
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Phillip Andrew Lewis enter the next phase of their project to imagine a future of bio-technologized mourning.
VANDENBROOKS’ LAB
Paleophysiologist and Twelve Earths collaborator John VandenBrooks offers a tour of his research lab, in Glendale, Ariz.
NEA GRANT
The National Endowment for the Arts approves an Art Works grant to Fathomers for the development of Atmosphere, an installation at one of twelve sites in Michael Jones McKean’s Twelve Earths.
ART & PERMISSION
In conjunction with Frieze Week at NeueHouse, Fathomers presents a film screening of The Proposal and a conversation with artists Jill Magid and Jill Soloway.
DEAR DONOR
Fathomers screens artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s short film T3511 (2018), a “post-genomic love story” that follows a biohacker’s increasingly obsessive interactions with an anonymous saliva donor.
OPEN SIGNAL
A group of artists, poets, designers, consultants, and scholars come together to begin thinking about a global communication system of beacons linking Twelve Earths’ twelve sites.
ETA
Fathomers presents a one-night-only “earthbound travelers anthology” to muse on deep time, the here-and-now, and other scales of experience.
O BY SSION
Fathomers hosts a listening party and video premiere for longtime collaborator Cody Critcheloe and SSION’s latest record, O.
MAGID WINS CALDER PRIZE
Congratulations to Jill Magid on receiving the Calder Prize, an award based in part on her performance Awaiting Alexander Calder at the Whitney Museum.
WARHOL GRANT
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awards Fathomers a $100,000 grant for two years of program support.
ANCIENT ATMOSPHERE
Artist Michael Jones McKean and collaborators discuss the challenges and poetics of reproducing a 300-million-year-old atmosphere.
MYCO-COSMOS
A guided exploration of biology, space travel and the interconnected universe led by famed mycologist Paul Stamets, with live accompaniment by new age musical legend Laraaji, conceived and directed by artist Phil Ross.
TWELVE EARTHS
Announcing the launch of Michael Jones McKean’s Twelve Earths, a sculpture scaled to Earth itself.
LEGAL RESEARCH
Research amps up with Jill Magid, as Fathomers hires legal intern Anne Marie Lee-Edwards, a second-year law student at the University of Kansas.