Sex and the Panopticon A conversation between Shu Lea Cheang and Paul B. Preciado
Shu Lea Cheang has lived a number of different lives: as a queer media activist, a cyberpunk filmmaker, and an…
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All in all is all we are
In his extensively discussed essay “Of Other Spaces,” Michael Foucault suggests that the present epoch is above all the “epoch…
Simone Fattal. In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and the Other
We’re going to the window to look outside. That’s always more fun than learning to read on lips things that,…
Artificial Centuries: Hate and the City in Gary Indiana’s Criticism
The shuttering of the Village Voice in August was met with solemn tributes, honorifics like storied and iconic universally conferred…
No Time or Nothing Less Than Time: Rosalind Nashashibi’s Recent Continuums of Kinship and Displacement
“A screen is fundamentally an architecture of psychic transfer and tracing. It is also a space haunted by the maternal.” —…
The Language of Mud: On Tamara Henderson’s “Womb Life”
At the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Tamara Henderson’s kinetic sculptures Sun Spider, Nomad, Sound Shepherd, Language of Mud, and…
Art and the Idea of Black Film: A Conversation
This past fall, the Fondazione Prada in Milan hosted “The Black Image Corporation” (September 20, 2018–January 14, 2019), conceived by…
Tiana Reid on Landscape and the Figural in the Sculptures of Tau Lewis
If you Google image “figural,” you’ll see thousands of images of Disney keyring dolls, mostly made of foam. Since abandoning…
Where Art Can Work: Interview with Tania Bruguera
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s installation “10,142,926” takes over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this fall with a series of works and…
Cauleen Smith: The Art of Giving
Fanta Sylla: Ever since the publication of Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning in 2011, I have yearned…
Amy Sillman. An Impossible Language
The modern history of painting is framed by narratives of artists struggling to undercut its representational character as art’s most…
Plunging into the Void: Judy Chicago’s Images
I first saw Judy Chicago’s Birth Trinity (1983) and Birth Tear/Tear (1982) when visiting the artist’s studio in Belen, New…
Antek Walczak. Planned Obsolescence?
Antek Walczak advances the medium of painting as a kind of machine through which social, economic, political, and technological systems…
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Feminist: On Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago had been Judy Chicago for five years when she published her autobiography Through the Flower: My Struggle as…
Narrative Excess: Judy Chicago's Work in Text
“I feel as though I’m still not writing. I foresee and want a way of speaking that’s more fanciful, more…
Tony Conrad. Aural Symbiosis
I met Tony Conrad the first time while playing the carillon at Saint Thomas Church one afternoon between 5:00 and…