Artist and educator Barbara Benish’s collaboration with political philosophers Michael J. Shapiro and Sam Okoth Opondo, a reciprocal visual and textual dialogue titled Aesthetics of Precarity (publication 2022), includes a series of woodcuts produced at the Contemporary Print Media Research Center reflecting the writer’s “responses to a renewed sense of the fragility of life in the wake of nuclear, racial, and pandemic sublimes”. Associate professor Enrique Leal has been overseeing the printing production. Artists proofs from the series were included in the group exhibition Collaborations, presented at Bubec Studios in Prague, Czech Republic, May 2021.
