Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. In memory of Kaari Upson (1970 – 2021)
Douglas Fogle: About the mattresses… Kaari Upson: I saw them as this intermission, a project between two very large acts, a…
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Terra Incognita. A conversation with Caterina Barbieri
Caterina Barbieri is an Italian musician and composer. She completed her studies at the Conservatory of Bologna and then at…
The Age of Love: Chapter II Quack! A Duck’s Heart
Over the last few months I’ve had several important encounters with swans, geese, and ducks. We humans, now outside our…
The Sensual Spiral. A conversation with Fatima Al Qadiri
Andrea Lissoni: How are you doing? Fatima Al Qadiri: I’m good. I just finished a big project, so it’s my…
Cao Fei: Overlapping Temporalities and Realities
Hou Hanru: When I first visited her studio, Cao Fei had just graduated from the art academy. Her parents were…
Transitional States: From Body to Object, From Object to Body. A Conversation with Cecilia Bengolea
Eleonora Milani: Let’s start from the beginning. How did you start dancing and become a choreographer? Has it been a…
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…
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…