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…
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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…
The Anticipatory Role of Germano Celant
Statements about Germano Celant’s contribution to conceptual art usually limit themselves to invoking his invention of the notion of arte…
Liliane Lijn: Reinventing the Archetype
Shall we begin at the beginning? Or, to be more precise, The Beginning (1959)? One of the earliest recorded works…
Desiring Machines: The Exhibition as Automaton in Philippe Parreno’s Work
Every night during the summer of 1993, artificial fireflies automatically lit up the garden at the Villa Arson, Nice. But…
Olafur Eliasson: Planetary Metabolism and the Charismatic Landscapes of the Cryosphere
A series of thirty photographic prints are hung in an evenly spaced grid on a white wall in London. The…