Music as a True Statement, Sound as a Definition of Space: Carl Craig
“Carl Craig: Party/After-Party” (2020) is an ambitious multisensory installation by legendary Detroit-based musician, DJ, and producer Carl Craig, commissioned by…
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Julie Mehretu: On Black Abstraction, Futurity and Opacity as a Space of Liberation
Just days before the US election, as Americans were grappling with the fallout of a global pandemic, a summer of…
Prediction in the Era of Digital Stupidity: Hito Steyerl
The most popular song of 2019/2020, “Dance Monkey,” is about mimicry, repetition, loops, and uncontrolled movement: Move for me, move…
Helen Marten: Whispered Circuitry, Drunken Quality
Approximation “It is said that our eyeballs record the last thing we see before we die. That there is a…
Lovecraft Country: Misha Green’s Historical Melodrama
The tropes of the horror genre — dread, terror, violence, trauma, monsters, and evil forces — constitute nightmarish plots specific…
The Age of Love: Notes toward a Nonbinary World
I remember a team meeting at MACBA — it must have been around 2010 — in which the question of…
MODEL CITIZEN: Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons. A Modernist Revulsion for Nostalgia
When I was living three driftless years in Berlin, I, like all residents, new or otherwise, would have to register…
Fluid Gesture. Transformations and Transmissions in the Bodies of Michele Rizzo
There is something fluid in dance. It lies neither in the quality of the action — obviously kinetic — nor…
Giving Image to an Afro–Future with Lauren Halsey
To artist Lauren Halsey, South Central Los Angeles is the most creative place on Earth. Through her funk-inspired sculptures and…
Slanted and Re-enchanted: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Hypnagogic pop star Daniel Lopatin, thirty-eight, who performs as Oneohtrix Point Never, has just released his self-titled record Magic Oneohtrix…
Against Passive Seeing: Shaun Leonardo
Exploring issues of race and masculinity, Shaun Leonardo’s multimedia practice exposes and redresses the white supremacist power structures that oppress…
Cindy Sherman: Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird; or, A Cage of Gold
“It’s almost an impression of how the character sees her environment, not how we would see it — or if…
How to become a medium: Seismic transmission with Nora Turato
I had planned to use the call to ask Nora Turato questions about typography — about the typefaces that she…
Yona Friedman®: A Case Study from Radicalism to Idiocracy
Almost a year after the death of Yona Friedman (1923–2020), we offer an excerpt from a text by François Roche…
Ian Wilson: There Was a Discussion
“No, I hadn’t heard about Ian Wilson, his life stood as an example for me, his death merely extends its…
Listen to This! Sound Art Reflections
Sound as art emerged in the counterculture 1960s as a lively, open-ended alternative away from the center. Practitioners with backgrounds…