Rush Johnstone – Reader Residency – June 2025

We are excited to announce the artist taking part on the Studio Residency across the month of June 2025.

Rush Johnstone is an artist and creative coder using digital tools, critical spatial analysis, and data storytelling to document how state-built infrastructures and systems echo in our present moment of geospatial paranoia and border violence.

Rush explores sites and infrastructures in contested spaces built to regulate or restrict movement, to surveil, or to protect only certain lives, therefore embodying state ideologies and global inequities. He is currently interested in air travel infrastructures as both physical and symbolic architectures of sovereignty, border mobility, and spacial justice.

For this residency Rush will formulate research around the fragmented archives of dormant/abandoned aviation sites, such as Yasser Arafat International Airport in Gaza, through engagement with resources on carceral geographies and abolitionist world-building.