Anaïs Duplan, Hope Ginsburg, Melody Jue, Jennifer Lange
Meditation Ocean (gallery guide)
Wexner Center for the Arts, 2023
Sarah Howard
"Sponge Exchange, Hope Ginsburg" (exhibition text)
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, 2020
Denise Markonish
"Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder"
(excerpt from catalog essay)
MASS MoCA, 2016
pp. 50–51
Jennifer Lange
"Land Dive Team: Bay of Fundy" (exhibition text)
THE BOX, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2016
Annie Dell'Aria
"Deep Breathing: Annie Dell'Aria on Meditation Ocean"
Artforum, May 2023
Pablo Helguera
"Reading Assignments: Books that artists study, reference, and base works on."
Beautiful Eccentrics
August 18, 2022
Jennifer Lange
Film/Video Studio Journals: Hope Ginsburg
In Practice, Wexner Center for the Arts
Fall 2021
Emma Colón
"5 Artists Bridging Communities Across Difference"
A Blade of Grass Magazine
March 28, 2019
Sydney Cologie and Brynne McGregor
"Wex Moments 2018: Film/Video Studio artist Hope Ginsburg"
(Q&A)
Wexner Center for the Arts
December 26, 2018
Tim Dodson
"Performative Diving Piece Featured at Festival Honoring the James
River"
Richmond Times-Dispatch
June 9, 2018
Jessica Lynne
"From Climate Change to Race Relations, Artists Respond to
Richmond, VA" (review)
Hyperallergic, 2015
Corina L. Apostol and Nato Thompson, Editors
"Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects"
Routledge, 2020
pp. 277–278
Amanda Tobin Ripley and Julia Harth
Winter / Spring 2023 Learning Guide
Wexner Center for the Arts, 2023
"Meditation Ocean: How Climate Justice is Explored through Underwater Meditation"
Interview with Hope Ginsburg
Wexner Center for the Arts
June 2024 (Recorded in November 2022)
Land Dive Team: Amphibious James
Television Program is a Production of VPM
Producer/Director: Mason Mills
Producer/Field Director: Allison Benedict
September 22, 2019
Art and Education in the 21st Century
Panelists: John Brown-Executive Director, Windgate Foundation; Tom
Finkelpearl-Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Hope
Ginsburg-Artist and Educator; Moderator: Geoffrey Cowan- President,
The Annenberg Foundation Trust
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2014
[excerpt]
From experience I can say that there are two salient aspects regarding the relationship between artists and books which I believe are obvious to some of us but are not so to many.
The first is that artistic research is an omnivorous practice, definitely not limited to art-related subjects. By necessity we of course pay a great deal of attention to art history, art technique and theory, but each individual artist in their research eventually gravitates to subjects that might have nothing to do with art- either because they research a subject of interest, a historical event, or an obscure subject matter.
A primary model of artistic research [is] Hope Ginsburg, an interdisciplinary artist based in Virginia, for whom learning and absorbing information from other fields is central to her practice. “I'd go so far as to say that learning experientially with others is my medium.” She told me recently.
Ginsburg creates a bibliography of sorts for every project, following “total belief in following the breadcrumbs of curiosity where they lead.”
Ginsburg continues: “For me, these paths go far afield–and underwater. My bookshelf is organized project-by-project, with some books jumping around. Donna Haraway's "Staying with the Trouble" has leapt a few times, as has Adrienne Marie Brown's "Emergent Strategy," "Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change," and Roy Scranton's, "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene."
Ginsburg’s most recent work is Meditation Ocean, one for which she has assembled a vast reading list. “Here are some of the most dog-eared books: "Wild Blue Media" by Melody Jue, "Bodies of Water" by Astrida Niemanis, "Undrowned" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and most recently (an oldie but goodie) "The Spell of the Sensuous" by David Abram.” [as well as] "The Nutmeg's Curse" by Amitav Ghosh. For the embodiment vector in the work, I want to name "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk, and "My Grandmother's Hands" by Resmaa Menakem.” (The whole project’s reference library is listed on the project’s webpage).
Pablo Helguera
"Reading Assignments: Books that artists study, reference, and base works on."
Beautiful Eccentrics
August 18, 2022