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
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
All sponge cells are germ-line cells–all potentially immortal. They have several different cell types, but they are deployed in development in a different way from most multicellular animals. Eumetazoan embryos form cell layers that fold and invaginate in complicated ‘origami’ ways to build the body. Sponges don’t have that kind of embryology. Instead they self-assemble–each of their toti-potent cells has an affinity for hooking up to other cells, as though they were autonomous protozoa with sociable tendencies.
–Richard Dawkins, “The Sponge’s Tale” in The Ancestor’s Tale (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004). pp. 486–87.
Continuing her long-term research into sponges and the production of prototypes through the organization of felting and dyeing workshops, Hope Ginsburg has focused on two freshwater sponge species native to Rio Grande do Sul: the Oncosclera jewelli and the Drulia brownii.
In Agua doce [Freshwater], Ginsburg will present two tanks, each of which features representations of a singular sponge type. Color, texture as well as display architecture are crucial elements for Ginsburg. In the installation she wants not only to mimic and underscore the sponge’s natural appearance, but she has also developed a design for the tanks to be observed from above that alludes to traditional Japanese transparent screens. [Title and installation of work shifted slightly after catalogue text was written.]
The sponges represented at the Usina do Gasometro are produced through a manual felting and dyeing process in which local wool and dyes are used. As in other projects developed under the name of Sponge HQ, Ginsburg opens these preparatory processes into a workshop format for local artists and her own students from VCU in Richmond, USA. The presentation at the Usina do Gasometro, then, is a product of multiple cooperations–between sponge expert Cecilia Volkmer-Ribeiro and the artist, as well as between the Sponge HQ and local artists. For the artist, the sponge’s “sociable tendencies” stand as analogy for the type of social collaborations her projects aim to catalyze.
Sarah Demeuse
"Weather Permitting" (catalog entry)
9th Mercosul Biennial, 2013
pp. 308–311