DIMENSIONS VARIABLE
SHARON ARNOLD
Dimensions Variable is the hub where all of my varied writing and research interests converge to showcase projects, essays, courses, and published works.
As an independent curator and the owner of Bridge Productions/LxWxH (now closed), my writing and research largely circulated around contemporary art and artists, but was deeply informed by critical and cultural theory, philosophy, cultural histories, queerness, enchantment, and animism. Now, the scope of my work has expanded to pull these themes forward directly and outside the limitations of curatorial exhibition projects. Recent essay topics include: curiosity and criticality, reality and perception, the spectacle, the sublime; ideas of apocalypse, dystopia, utopia, and futures; and the importance of storytelling. The throughline weaving it all together is about intimacy, finding new ways through old things, connectivity, creativity, community, and building the futures we want with the strengths, skills, time, and communities we have in the present.
As an independent curator and the owner of Bridge Productions/LxWxH (now closed), my writing and research largely circulated around contemporary art and artists, but was deeply informed by critical and cultural theory, philosophy, cultural histories, queerness, enchantment, and animism. Now, the scope of my work has expanded to pull these themes forward directly and outside the limitations of curatorial exhibition projects. Recent essay topics include: curiosity and criticality, reality and perception, the spectacle, the sublime; ideas of apocalypse, dystopia, utopia, and futures; and the importance of storytelling. The throughline weaving it all together is about intimacy, finding new ways through old things, connectivity, creativity, community, and building the futures we want with the strengths, skills, time, and communities we have in the present.
