Susan Yelavich

Dec 10, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Hannah McIntyre |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Peter Dreier |Susan Yelavich

Still from Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion | Eva Orner / © HBO Max“From the beginning of the supply chain to the end, we’re all being exploited by the same system” says Chloe Asaam, who represents the Or Foundation. She’s speaking in Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion, an HBO documentary that explores the toxicity of the international brand Brandy Melville.

Jan 16, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Deb Chachra |Susan Yelavich |Alexandra Lange |Kate Wagner

The laundry room in the building where I live just got a new washing machine. It is both perfectly ordinary and utterly extraordinary in the way that it is a nexus of infrastructural networks.

Oct 16, 2023 | untappedjournal.com | Clayton Aldern |Andrew Russeth |Susan Yelavich |Alex Bozikovic

Almost overnight, people had stopped buying Red Delicious apples. It was 2005, and decades of short-term–ist market fundamentalism had worked as a cider press on the species, wringing out its flavor and leaving behind only optimized coloration and storage potential. You are probably familiar with the dilemma of this particular fruit: It is beautiful—a visual eponym, even, in terms of the “apple” referent—but a bite tends to suggest cardboard.

Aug 21, 2023 | untappedjournal.com | Adrian Madlener |Susan Yelavich |Jonathan Schultz |Natalia Rachlin

The Society of American Archivists—an 87-year-old organization that counts more than 6,200 professionals working in institutions around the country among its members—defines an archive as “the permanently valuable records of people, businesses, and governments.” Incorporating reports, accounts, drafts, final manuscripts, photographs, and other media, these depositories inform how we think about a given entity. And so, with archiving comes great responsibility.

Aug 7, 2023 | untappedjournal.com | Jesse Dorris |Ian Volner |Susan Yelavich |Andrew Russeth

Among the folds and crevices, the swells and sunken caches of strength, most human bodies have a box that rests on our windpipes. Inside the box are bars of tissue. As air moves through them and up out of us, they flutter. The bars of our bodies resound. When we sing, we’re rattling cages. The work of Helen Cammock might rattle you as well.