The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Triple Canopy

Location
New York, NY
Grant Cycle
Fall 2019
Amount
$120,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support

Triple Canopy is a magazine based in New York. Since 2007, Triple Canopy has advanced a model for publication that encompasses digital works of art and literature, public conversations, exhibitions, and books. This model hinges on the development of publishing systems that incorporate networked forms of production and circulation. Working closely with artists, writers, technologists, and designers, Triple Canopy produces projects that demand considered reading and viewing. As an online journal Triple Canopy has established itself as an important platform for creative and critical arts writing and a venue for in-depth dialogue about contemporary art. Its distinctive approach enables artists and writers to develop digital projects and print publications that encourage collaborative research and aesthetic risk-taking.


Promotional image for Parts of Speech, published on June 17, 2020 to launch Triple Canopy’s twenty-sixth issue, which is devoted to the entanglement of speaking and listening. The series comprises six digital contributions that make use of event documentation, video works, scripts, interviews, and essays to investigate the capacity of public speech to win trust, mold opinion, and orchestrate movements. Parts of Speech derives from a public programming series of the same name, which was organized with Public Fiction and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and presented at sites of assembly throughout Chicago from February to May 2019. Featured contributors: the writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor, the novelist and critic Hari Kunzru, the artist Steffani Jemison, the cellist and composer Tomeka Reid, the artist and entrepreneur Christopher Kulendran Thomas, and the comedian and writer Julio Torres. Link: https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/pos
The artist and performer Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste delivers a lecture-performance on embodied, racialized, and potentially liberatory aesthetic of low frequencies in black music, at In Mono, on February 18, 2020.
The artist and performer Nikita Gale delivers a lecture-performance on the racial and gendered politics of pop music production at In Mono, on February 18, 2020.
The fashion collective CFGNY (Tin Nguyen and Daniel Chew) and cultural critic Dawn Chan in conversation with Triple Canopy senior editor Matthew Shen Goodman at Export Exchange, on February 6, 2020. Audio documentation: https://soundcloud.com/triplecanopy/ export-exchange
The novelist Katie Kitamura reads from a novel-in-progress—inspired by a varietal of genetically modified pine tree (as Triple Canopy editor Alexander Provan unboxes and pots a sapling of the same species via livestream) at the artist duo Goldin+Senneby’s event "Crying Pine Tree," on January 30, 2020.
The composer and scholar Ethan Philbrick and comedic performer Morgan Bassichis improvise music at Welcome All You Dragonflies on December 12, 2019. Audio documentation: https://soundcloud.com/triple-canopy/december
The writers Harmony Holiday and Ben Ratliff in conversation at Black Hauntology, on October 30, 2019. Audio documentation: https://soundcloud.com/triplecanopy/blackhauntology

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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant