Scorched Feet/Pies Quemados Bilingual Zine 2 by Alexa Horochowski and R Yun Matea
This piece was featured in the May 2023 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
Scorched Feet/Pies Quemados is a bilingual, experimental broadside that focuses on issues of climate change and politics from the perspective of immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ cultural producers. It is the beginning of a conversation between local artists in Minneapolis with artists connected to issues around the world.
In the 16th century a broadside was traditionally a large sheet of paper printed on one side meant to be plastered on walls and used for proclamations, street literature, ballads, and ephemera. The Dunlap Broadside was the first publication of the United States Declaration of Independence, printed July 4, 1776.
Artists Alexa Horochowski, and R Yun Matea (formerly Keagy) founded Scorched Feet in the aftermath of the political turmoil and social upheaval of 2016-2020. Events such as the construction of the “the Wall” at the Mexican border, the Covid-19 pandemic, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and the storming of the Capitol have all occurred in the United States but point to pressures rising from climate change and increasing social inequality around the world.
To download a free copy of Vol. 1, please visit www.alexahorochowski.com.
Featured artists Vol. 1: Leslie Fernández Barrera (Concepción, Chile), Tia Simone-Gardner (Saint Paul, MN), Alexa Horochowski (Minneapolis, MN), Joe Gonzalez (Concepción, Chile) R. Yun Keagy (Minneapolis, MN), Camila Leiva (Minneapolis, MN)
In the second edition, editors Alexa Horochowski and R Yun Matea gathered artworks and literature that articulate and ignite the concept of ritual witchcraft and healing in times of climate change.
Featured artists Vol. 2: Sonia E. Barrett, Vania Carlo Melo, Brad Kahlhamer, Caroline Kent, Stevie Ada Klaark, Caroline Opazo Riveros, Lela Pierce, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Sun Yun Shin, Calvin Stalvig, and Corinne Teed.
13.5” x 19.5”
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Alexa Horochowski (she/her), a dual citizen of Argentina and the United States, works in sculpture, photography, and video. An artist residency at CASAPOLI, Coliúmo, Chile (2013) significantly impacted her material and geopolitical research into the interrelationship between the environment and humankind. Horochowski holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, and a BA in creative writing and journalism from the University of Missouri. Recent solo and group exhibitions include the Walker Art Center’s “Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection” (2020-2021); the Rochester Art Center, “Beautiful Sky” (2019); Highpoint Center for Printmaking “Vortex Drawings” (2017); The Soap Factory, “Club Disminución” (2014). Selected fellowships include a Warhol Visual Arts Fund (2022), Efroymson Artist Fellowship (2018), three McKnight Visual Artist Fellowships (2019/2014/2003), Artist Initiative Grants (2014/2012), and a Bush Artist Fellowship (2004). Horochowski has a live/work studio in Minneapolis and teaches studio arts at St. Cloud State University.
R Yun Matea (she/her) is a moving image artist based in Minneapolis, on land of the Dakhóta Oyáte. She was raised in California and Guatemala. Her practice in video and 16mm film is multimodal and research-based, and investigates race and labor, disease, and sites of historical and psychosocial trauma. R Yun is a recipient of the McKnight Media Artist Fellowship and Jerome Foundation Film, Video and Digital Production Grant. Screenings and exhibitions of her work include: Walker Art Center, Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis); Center for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow); REDCAT Gallery, Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles); Galerija Nova (Zagreb); Souvenirs from Earth International TV Project (Cologne); Light Industry (Brooklyn); Raum für Projektion (Bergen, Oslo & Buenos Aires); Mind TV/Media Independence, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia); Festival Images Contre Nature, (Marseille); Berlinale Talent Campus Editing Studio (Berlin). She has taught at University of the Arts, University of California at Santa Cruz, Minneapolis College of Art & Design and Carleton College.
