Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
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 In this time when we humans have become a geologic force, most of us live in increasingly…
The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between…
Intensifying racisms and growing ethno-nationalisms require political answers. We know what has to happen: negotiations, treaties, and policies will have…
For centuries, making art has meant opening windows where there are no walls; artworks are open windows “through which history…
A new generation of artists is exploring the intrinsic qualities of materials “informed” by the activities of humanity, and bearing…
The frightening theme of global warming is often addressed in catastrophic terms expressed in visions of utter annihilation. At times…
In 1970, the American architecture and video collective Ant Farm advertised their distinctly countercultural services as “air buildings, nomadic visions”…
The environmental catastrophe that is currently unfolding before our eyes has a single culprit at its source — the human…
The world is drowning in data. Every second, 2.8 million emails are sent, 30,000 phrases are Googled, and 600 updates…
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!
Some years ago I ordered a batch of butterfly chrysalis online. They were intended for a project by an artist,…
If writing is the mother of the comatose archive, I wonder if exhibiting could be the rehearsal hall for a…