About
the Timewave
No territories.
No maps.
A tesseract taking shape through language and image.
A emergent convergence of where the archives of past, present, and future come to work the roots.
Founded and directed by author, artist, historian, theorist, and analogue systems analyst Quintan Ana Wikswo, THE TIMEWAVE is a nonprofit incubator uniquely situated for wandering-with-purpose amidst the hyperspace hyperlocation of humanity.
Our concerns are the tectonics of time over space, and space over time. We create unexpected conversations and encounters with the intricacies of humanoid activities in the cosmos. We organize intrepid and deliberate forays into the complex datasets of experience—sifting and sorting, twining and unwinding the known and the unknown worlds of our species.
Fieldwork
Projects
Geo-activated, transdisciplinary, collaborative encounters with ecological and socio-cultural sites of conscience over space and time.
Projects website is password protected. Contact us for access.
Scry
Magazine
SCRY MAGAZINE is a locus for interconnected, unpredictable, and substantive conversation amongst transdisciplinary artists, activists, creators, scientists, shamans, thinkers, soldiers, transgalactic interlopers, philosophical perambulators, and otherlings. Contributors are invited to share emergent strategies and tactics for excavating and investigating, seeing and making visible.
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Quill
and Quantum
The Quill & Quantum is a text-and-image school for curious, playful, rigorous, and intellectually mischievous creators. We partner with writers and artists exploring collaborative, transdisciplinary projects — where text transmogrifies amidst image, sound, media, and movement.
We help writers build passion projects - emergent and experimental as well as polished and professional - that breathe, shift, surprise, and belong to more than one world.
No silos. No rigid rules. We are the artistic equivalent of Schrödinger’s Vandercook: simultaneously spawning artist books and n-dimensional experiences, fantastical forays and award-winning whatchamacallits. When you engage with these experiments, you encounter all of these and more…and all of it at once.
Drawn to becoming stranger and surer, one crooked sentence at a time? Come court the muses with a slide rule and a smirk. Find your voice? Why not send it on a vision quest.
The semicolons are restless. The archives? Plotting revolution. And the witches and faeries seem to be planning a party.
Surprise your psyche. Bring snacks.
— The Quill & Quantum Team
* Est. Yesterday (or next Tuesday — time’s a draft, really)
Timewave
Editions
Deep cuts and rare finds. Talismans. Artifacts for the future. Works on paper. Curated by the motley folks at The TIMEWAVE.
About
Quintan Ana Wikswo
Quintan Ana Wikswo is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, archivist, historian, linguist, systems analyst, and fieldworker of pan-Lithuanian and Barbadian descent. For over 30 years, she’s practiced “wurzelwork” — deep roots-based research, creation, and teaching surrounding conflict, moral injury, and the sublime at Sites of Conscience in Europe, Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.
She is the author of several acclaimed books, including *THE HOPE OF FLOATING HAS CARRIED US THIS FAR* and *A LONG CURVING SCAR WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE,* on Coffee House Press, multiple anthologies at Ugly Duckling Presse, museum catalogues throughout the EU, and regular publications in Guernica, Tin House, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, AQR, Gulf Coast, Electric Lit, and others.
Wikswo’s work is supported and presented by major institutions including the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Federation of Germany, Yaddo, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (LAMOCA), F.A.C.T. Liverpool, New York University, State University of New York Rochester, City College of New York, the Colin Powell School for Global Leadership, California State University at San Francisco and at Fullerton, and University of California.
She’s a fellow at ZKM Center for Art and Media (Germany), Creative Capital (USA) and a researcher at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Imperial War Museums (UK) and the Archives Nationales (France).
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