“Your Long Arms” by Marcus Civin

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Marcus Civin is Associate Dean in Graduate Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He has taught curatorial practice, drawing, performance, writing, contemporary art, and art history. He is a founder of New Urban Arts, a twenty-yearold non-profit art after school program in Providence, Rhode Island. At MICA, he is part of the group that started the critical journal Full Bleed. His writing appears semiregularly in Art Papers and on Artforum.com. He has also written for Afterimage, Aufgabe, Urbanite, The Courtland Review, The Capilano Review, Nerve Lantern, PostOffice Arts Journal, Recaps Magazine, [out of nothing], kadar koli, Nerve Lantern, and the books: Incident Report (from Publication Studio) and (from Litmus Press) No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards. His text Megaphone! was published by Press Press. He has exhibited at School 33 in Baltimore, Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, Boston Center for the Arts, and Recess Art in New York, among other places. He has performed in fields, basements, garages, classrooms, at The Kitchen in New York, LAXART and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Transmodern in Baltimore and The Supernova Performance Art Festival in Rosslyn, Virginia. He is working on his first book, a collection of fictions sharing the kinds of lives lived by the kinds of artists and art people he has known. He is also working on a performance using two very heavy bronze top hats. Check out: marcuscivinwriting.com and marcuscivin.com. Or, skip right to the heart of the matter: https://vimeo.com/144291489.