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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.

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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

December 2025

The INSTITUTE FOR TRANSHUMANIST CEPHALOPOD EVOLUTION and Learning from Octopuses

Barbara London

Barbara London reflect's of Miriam SImun's INSTITUTE FOR TRANSHUMANIST CEPHALOPOD EVOLUTION

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