Too Old to Die Young
In her 1975 poem “Liebestod,” Gwen Head writes of a girl on a beach who sunbathes with a glittering gun…
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The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn
Between 1968 and 1972, German artist Rebecca Horn created a series of performances titled “Personal Art.” Not unlike Joseph Beuys,…
Jimmy Robert: Reworking Performativity
The work of Berlin-based artist Jimmy Robert (b. Guadeloupe (FR) 1975) is situated in the interstices between the art object,…
Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Such Feeling
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
When You Mix Something, It’s Good to Know Your Ingredients: Modes of Addressing and Economies of Attention in the Visual and Performing Arts
The event-oriented neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and ’60s were very much driven by an oppositional stance to the conventions of…
Image, performance, protest
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
I Am My Body: On Judy Chicago’s Birth Project¹
I Am My Body A thump, thump, thump opens the 1980 movie Right Out of History: The Making of Judy…
Elysia Crampton: Beyond the horizon of coloniality
“We come from a heavily colonized country where they adopted Christianity. I saw the way [my grandmother] navigated her relationship…
Sharing space: Meriem Bennani on Teleportation, Babycouple Adults, and Postcolonial Morocco
Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
The Machinery of Identity: Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
When Body Horror Meets Fairy Tale: The Films of Marianna Simnett
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
Adjacency: Luke Willis Thompson’s Poethics of Care
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
COMPOSING HOME / UNIVERSAL RIGHTS
Composing Home In this time when we humans have become a geologic force, most of us live in increasingly…
Conditions of Life: Forensic Architecture in the Age of Climate Breakdown
The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between…
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…
“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…