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…
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“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…
Transformation, Immortality, and the Abject in Ivana Bašić’s Sculptures
Some years ago I ordered a batch of butterfly chrysalis online. They were intended for a project by an artist,…
"Right: to Write ________" Toward a Democalligraphic U-topia. Huang Jing Yuan
If writing is the mother of the comatose archive, I wonder if exhibiting could be the rehearsal hall for a…
Future Perfect Visitors. ABBA at the End of the Modernist Paradigm
In 1972 the Pruitt–Igoe housing estate was blasted into rubble in St. Louis, Missouri. Also in 1972 the Swedish pop…
The Process Behind Joan Jonas' New Oceanic Work
During the making of her exhibition “Moving Off the Land II,” currently on view at Ocean Space in Venice, Joan…
Dora Budor. On Being a “Deviation Amplifying” System
Questioning perception and experience, the Croatian-born, New York-based artist Dora Budor highlights the urgency of building new relationships between appearance…
Making it Together Laure Prouvost's Eathbound Commons
The first experience of Laure Prouvost’s work can be unforgettable. For me it was marked by her voice, heard shouting…
Not an Additional Substance but the Body Feeling Itself: An Interview with Ghislaine Leung
Once a caesura is opened, it never really closes. In the practice of Ghislaine Leung (b. 1980, Sweden), these disruptions…
Yto Barrada's Grammars of Resistance
Moroccan-French artist Yto Barrada knits together family histories and broader sociopolitical narratives through works that employ photography, film, installation, sculpture,…