Image, performance, protest
Over the past decade, much has been written about the rise of performance in contemporary art’s institutions, with gargantuan architectures…
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Elysia Crampton: Beyond the horizon of coloniality
“We come from a heavily colonized country where they adopted Christianity. I saw the way [my grandmother] navigated her relationship…
Sharing space: Meriem Bennani on Teleportation, Babycouple Adults, and Postcolonial Morocco
Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
The Machinery of Identity: Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
When Body Horror Meets Fairy Tale: The Films of Marianna Simnett
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
Adjacency: Luke Willis Thompson’s Poethics of Care
The right to look or the right to look away? Who chooses to look and who chooses to look away?…
COMPOSING HOME / UNIVERSAL RIGHTS
Composing Home In this time when we humans have become a geologic force, most of us live in increasingly…
Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown
The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between…
A New Aesthetics of Conviviality
Intensifying racisms and growing ethno-nationalisms require political answers. We know what has to happen: negotiations, treaties, and policies will have…
“The Life of Matter is Already an Artistic Practice.” Metamorphosis and Alchemy in the work of Bianca Bondi
For centuries, making art has meant opening windows where there are no walls; artworks are open windows “through which history…
Coactivity: Between the Human and Nonhuman
A new generation of artists is exploring the intrinsic qualities of materials “informed” by the activities of humanity, and bearing…
Unsublime Ecology
The frightening theme of global warming is often addressed in catastrophic terms expressed in visions of utter annihilation. At times…
Eco-Tripping: Ant Farm's Environmental Media
In 1970, the American architecture and video collective Ant Farm advertised their distinctly countercultural services as “air buildings, nomadic visions”…
Between Two Bookends: Ecology and the Work of Mark Dion
The environmental catastrophe that is currently unfolding before our eyes has a single culprit at its source — the human…
DATA MATTER
The world is drowning in data. Every second, 2.8 million emails are sent, 30,000 phrases are Googled, and 600 updates…
Spectacle of Concealment
Performances of blackness have generally been limited to particular styles of music, theater, dance, and popular culture, which has fostered…