Critical Writing
The Critical Writing program commissions emerging writers to pursue the underlying themes and ideas that inform individual Session projects, initiating meaningful exchanges between artists and writers and facilitating the mutual production of new work.
Writers are given editorial support and a $1000 honorarium. Editorial support for Critical Writing provided primarily by Kemi Adeyemi, with additional guest editors.
New Critical Writing — reflections on octopuses & shared sensing
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Take Me Where I Need To Go: On Portals, Ancestral Intelligence, and Black Continuums...
Daria Harper
Writer and cultural producer Daria Simone Harper reflects on Portals: Traversing Black Continuums
January 2026
Freedom Time Meditation: Cartographies of Release
Neta Bomani
Artist and educator Neta Bomani offers a guided meditation on FREEDOM TIME: Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls
October 2025
streamlined reflections, courtesy of noise canceling headphones
Gabrielle Rucker
Gabrielle Rucker reflects on the radical intimacy and auditory life at the heart of Deli Radio