Nour Mobarak: Movements of Spheres for a Hybrid Economy of Desire
In installations with multi-channel sound sources, Mobarak mixes the words of her polyglot father, whose memory is failing, with the…
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Bio-Hazard: Pakui Hardware
With an almost uncannily timely relevance, Pakui Hardware’s most recent body of work delves into remote healthcare technologies and services:…
Materialist Invisibility: Art As Organic Development In Pamela Rosenkranz’s Work
In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx declared that the “engine of history” was the working class, ushering in revolutions. In…
An Autofictional Theory of the Last Decade of the Art World: On Emily Segal’s Mercury Retrograde
Crisis engulfs Emily Segal. Several years after the Great Recession, Segal is freshly unemployed and has moved out of her…
Prophetic Culture: Experiencing the End of the World. A conversation with Federico Campagna
Andrea Bellini: Dear Federico, let’s start from the very end, that is to say, from the end of the world.…
Intimate Dislocations: On Lydia Ourahmane’s Barzakh
“Allow me, then, as we part company at this threshold [barzakh], to break the contract between one absurdity and another.”1…
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…
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…