Wolfgang Tillmans “Sound is Liquid” mumok / Vienna
Last November Wolfgang Tillmans released his first studio album, Moon in Earthlight, a fifty-three-minute-long soundscape that weaves together pop elements,…
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Baseera Khan "I Am an Archive" Brooklyn Museum / New York
The advent and proliferation of technologies that encourage practices of accumulating and storing information has precipitated a contemporary preoccupation with…
Julien Creuzet’s Complex Work: Plastic Poetics, Landscapes, Hybridizations
Born in 1986 in the suburbs of Paris, Julien Creuzet grew up in Martinique before returning to study in the…
For the Love of Doing Nothing: The bare minimum collective on Illness, Care, and Work
There may be no greater act of resistance to the worsening global crises of illness and exploitation than to stop…
Speculative Sunrise
In Los Angeles, we never really see the sunrise. Instead, there is a time when the sky lightens, but our…
Colin Self: On Shadows and Spotlights
Colin Self is a mutable creature. Born and raised in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, with the disarmingly friendly name…
Processing Placelessness: When Screens take Bodies. A Conversation with Shuang Li
For the performance work Lord of the Flies (2021), Shuang Li remotely trained twenty performers, each following a script, to…
Desire Machines: The Art of Kayode Ojo
As part of his recent show at Sweetwater in Berlin, Kayode Ojo presented an ascending row of letterboxes, each opened…
Metro Pictures (1980-2021). Expressionism embarrasses me. A conversation with Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 133, April 1987. I met Helene Winer when she was still at Artists…
Caroline Kent “Chicago Works” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Caroline Kent’s installation at the MCA Chicago comprises two dimly lit spaces dressed to evoke studies: one space includes an…
"The Real Show" CAC Brétigny
People want to see images that reflect their reality, but media distortions and the pace of digital technology have warped…
Xinyi Cheng's Intimate Assault on Reality
From the clutter of urban life, Xinyi Cheng subtracts transient moments of respite. Her subjects, alone or in pairs, mostly…
Catalina Ouyang: Perilous Embodiment
It’s easy to be led to the abyss. — Cixin Liu Catalina Ouyang sees their multimedia practice — an amalgam…
Steven Parrino Gagosian / Basel
For all the mythology that dogs the legacy of Steven Parrino, two decades after his death at the age of…
“TUNE. Sound and Beyond” Haus der Kunst / Munich
It goes without saying that sound as an artistic medium has a rich and varied history; think only of the…
Space As a Reflection Of the Mind
Olivia Erlanger: I’ve been really interested in the psychology of interiors and the way that space can act as a…