Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations
A collective endeavor of Greek antiquity — no less than eighty different artists worked on the frieze alone — the…
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Negative Space, Objects in the Absence of Performance
As art institutions adopt performance-based practices, artists, curators, and archivists are faced with new considerations about how to classify and…
Too Old to Die Young
In her 1975 poem “Liebestod,” Gwen Head writes of a girl on a beach who sunbathes with a glittering gun…
The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn
Between 1968 and 1972, German artist Rebecca Horn created a series of performances titled “Personal Art.” Not unlike Joseph Beuys,…
Jimmy Robert: Reworking Performativity
The work of Berlin-based artist Jimmy Robert (b. Guadeloupe (FR) 1975) is situated in the interstices between the art object,…
Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Such Feeling
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
When You Mix Something, It’s Good to Know Your Ingredients: Modes of Addressing and Economies of Attention in the Visual and Performing Arts
The event-oriented neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and ’60s were very much driven by an oppositional stance to the conventions of…
Image, performance, protest
Over the past decade, much has been written about the rise of performance in contemporary art’s institutions, with gargantuan architectures…
I Am My Body: On Judy Chicago’s Birth Project¹
I Am My Body A thump, thump, thump opens the 1980 movie Right Out of History: The Making of Judy…
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…