Metro Pictures (1980-2021). Expressionism embarrasses me. A conversation with Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 133, April 1987. I met Helene Winer when she was still at Artists…
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Xinyi Cheng's Intimate Assault on Reality
From the clutter of urban life, Xinyi Cheng subtracts transient moments of respite. Her subjects, alone or in pairs, mostly…
Space As a Reflection Of the Mind
Olivia Erlanger: I’ve been really interested in the psychology of interiors and the way that space can act as a…
Collecting Time Through Space. A Conversation with Ser Serpas
Ser Serpas assembles situations through poetry and sculpture, painting and performance. In the 1995 Los Angeles-born artist’s ever-mutating practice, everything…
Thomas Demand: Model Man
Parallel Realities “Hello everyone,” says Katya Inozemtseva, chief curator at Garage. “Very nice to at least see you digitally.” She…
Tripping the Time Stamp. A Conversation with Simon Denny
Simon Denny is one of the first established artists to engage with blockchain ideology, creating works that render visible the…
Korakrit Arunanondchai’s Spiritual-Material Ecosystems
“Follow my voice,” urges the shaman in the beginning of Korakrit Arunanondchai’s video Songs for dying, 2021 (co-commissioned by the…
The Age of Love: Chapter IV Love and Poverty and Joy: Pauline Curnier Jardin
Something that interests me lately is poverty. Poverty not only as a notion, but as an experience. It seems to…
Transformative Potential of Social Spaces. A Conversation with Akeem Smith
It’s hard to circumscribe a figure like Akeem Smith: fashion designer, stylist, visual artist. From an early age he absorbed…
I WANT YOU TO SHOW ME (BAGLIO ANTICO MIX). A conversation with Adam Farah
“Wearing your heart on your sleeve shows courage” – or so goes my psychotherapist’s favourite dictum. And though bravery is…
Beyond Physics. A conversation with Pan Daijing
Andrea Lissoni: Let’s start from your new commission for Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, “One Hundred Nine Minus” 一…
Systemic Errors of Collective Intelligence. A Conversation with Agnieszka Kurant
Agnieszka Kurant’s complex conceptual practice can be described in many ways: as research into the invisible, as a study of…
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…
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…