I create site-generated projects and social sculptures that insert historical scenarios into present day situations, as well as engage present day histories to imagine alternative futures. My background in craft orient my projects toward the continuities and ruptures in material and social histories. I often work with long-term and ongoing collaborators and together we engage multiple communities and elicit working relationships with experts in political theory, biology, legal scholarship, and speculative fiction. Always interested in history, more recently, I have been drawn to imagined futures, specifically a future that includes human survival. I work in large-scale sculptural forms that engage a specific site, such as a rapidly changing forest, or a material, like porcelain which beautifully archives history, to train out of habituated patterns, always working towards new policies.
Selected Publications
Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes, Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, University of Chicago Press, 2022
Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg, Invitation to Tea, Bridge Press, 2022
Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes, Remaking the Exceptional Podcast, 2022
"7000 Marks," text by Sara Black and Amber Ginsburg, in Antennae, Journal of Nature and Visual Culture, Issue 44, Summer, 2018. Download text
"The Labor Issue: Questionnaire," Interview with Sara Black and Amber Ginsburg, in Open Set, May, 2017. View text
"In a Tea Ritual, Stopping Time and Reflecting on War with a Veteran," text by Gretchen Combs, in Hyperallergic, February 5, 2016. View text
Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice. Vol. 3., edited by Yelena Gluzman and Matvei Yankelevich, 2014
"Rooting: Interview with Amber Ginsburg," Interview by Sarah Benning, in Rooting: Regional Networks, Global Concerns, March, 2013. View text