By Katie Wiegman, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable, “The Body as Medium: Somatics in Creation” “Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than fear, everything shifts.” –Bessel Van Der Kolk “When did you become aware of being embodied?” This was one of the first questions posed by…

By Leilani Lynch, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Artist Collectives and Collaboration In November 2022, Tilt West’s roundtable convening took ‘Artist Collectives and Collaboration’ as its topic. Over the course of the discussion, we mused on foundational aspects of collectives and collectivity: critical definitions of their function and…

By Kalliopi Monoyios, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Fire and Water: The Art and Science of the West in Crisis On any given day while sitting at a traffic light between Here and There, I like to contemplate what rush hour might look like on other planets. One…

By Joshua Ware, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Rethinking Space: Architecture, Land & Democracy Pig Hill is a sharp (24% grade), riverside incline on Rialto Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that connects The Strip District with the Troy Hill neighborhood. Now a two-way, paved road with adjacent pedestrian stairs…

By Emilie Trice, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on NFTs, Art Markets and Community Making Consider this: Art no longer requires a physical presence to activate its “aura.” Back in the 1930s, philosopher Walter Benjamin famously wrote about the aura of an artwork, which had to be experienced in…

By Sofian Audry, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Art & AI A few years ago, one of my collaborators and I were approached by an AI incubator interested in working with artists. As artists already using machine learning, we thought it might be quite thrilling to work with…

By Damon McLeese, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Curation & Identity In her opening statement at the recent Tilt West roundtable on Curation & Identity, prompter Jane Burke stated there was a “burden of representation” in her work as Curatorial Fellow of Textile Art and Fashion at the…

By Hassan Khan, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Masks & Facade One of the greatest barriers to moving outside your comfort zone in life is the fear that you’re not worthy. Feeling like an imposter — like you’re not good enough and other people are going to see…

By Miranda Lash, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Art & Sound “We are listening,” was a refrain that sounded from nearly all quarters of American commerce during the summer of 2020. Across the United States, for-profit and non-profit institutions alike pledged to listen harder, learn more, and become…