Chloë Bass is an artist and writer born, raised, and still living in New York City. She studies scales of human intimacy starting at the self and ending at the metropolis. She recently finished The Book of Everyday Instruction: a multi-form multi-year work on pairs.
What We Don't Know: The Failure of Presumed Understanding
“Assuming we already know is not a place of learning. Optimistically, I want to leave room for misunderstanding as a place of discovery.” Twelve months after the inauguration of Donald Trump, artist Chloë Bass—a contributor to Walker Reader’s “Reading List for the New America”—offers a personal assessment of the past year, examining her thoughts on resistance and the pitfalls of believing we’re all on the same page.