Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Katie Kehoe, published, “Time is of the Essence” in PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas, vol. 72, no. 2, 2025, pp. 138-145. With global distribution, PUBLIC maintains an enduring and esteemed profile as a peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal with a core focus on visual art.
Kehoe’s article walks readers through the body of work she created with support from FYAP in the summer of 2024. Detailing the series of speculative survival architecture and wearables she created to use as props in site-specific installations and performances, which she documented with photography to address the pressing impacts of extreme weather.
PUBLIC vol. 72 – “Searching for Home” is edited by Shaunasea Brown and Nadine Valcin and produced in collaboration with Andrea Fatona and the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora. Responding to the growing turmoil of politics, capitalism, and environmental disasters worldwide, this issue of PUBLIC explores the various physical, metaphorical, and conceptual ways that home is created, experienced, negotiated, and transformed. In this unprecedented moment of upheaval, we witness massive disruption: Wildfires ravage towns and forests, flash floods destroy homes, and the concept of “home” is constantly challenged. Ideas like citizenship, residency, and migration are being redefined, while people are detained and the State neglects racialized refugees. As a result, the notion of “home” takes on a new significance, where sensation, memory, and emotion outweigh the built environment in creating and maintaining a place of refuge, safety, and comfort.
CONTRIBUTORS
Adesoji Babalola | amílcar peter sanatan | Ann Marie Beals | Ayşegül Yıldırım | Benjamin Ogrodnik | Cornel Grey | Emilie Contant | Eve Wong | Fiqir Worku | Johonna McCants-Turner | Katie Kehoe | Maya Bastian | Neala Luna Bhagwansingh | Pascale Diverlus | Paul Akpomuje | Sarah Sands Phillips | Semra Woldemikael | Somayeh Rashvand | Tapo Chimbganda | Valérie d. Walker | Wayne Dunkley | Yeabsera Agonfer
REVIEWS
Friederike Landau-Donnelly | Lara El Mekaui | Laura St. Pierre | Maya Wilson-Sánchez | Rebecca M. Gordon
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Image credit: Kehoe, Katie. Time is of the Essence in PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas, vol. 72, no. 2, 2025, pp. 138-145.
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