Remembering Agnes Varda • Surprising Impressions
Patrick Steffen: I’ve wanted to organize this conversation since 2011, when Rita Gonzalez curated the show “Asco: Elite of the…
Features
Fetish Eyeballs
Amy Yao’s little beauties, shiny, glassy, delicate life-size fetishes, seem to play on our lost innocence. They are remnants of…
Five Questions about Los Angeles
1. After James Ellroy and Bret Easton Ellis, who do you think should write a contemporary novel on La La Land?…
3 x Sterling Ruby
Madness and Reason in the Minimum Security Studio by Gea Politi Visiting Sterling Ruby’s studio in Vernon, California, you are…
Sound and Vision
Every Rough Edge is Gone
Joel Kyack: The red light is on. Laura Owens: Do you think we can just ask each other questions? JK:…
Networks of Influence
“We are really walking a fine line — in fact, our line might be so fine that we might be…
Everyday Instability. On the notion of the personal within Lutz Bacher’s curiously-received art
Imagine walking into a gallery and seeing a skewed flat screen on the floor, its surface illuminated by a video…
The Way You Always Wanted to See’em
Rafael De Cárdenas: Are you familiar with the hashtag phenomenon? Peter Halley: Are you talking about Twitter? RDC: Can you think of…
Love at Work
The love between Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin that lies at the root of their work is reminiscent of…
Company of Man
Xu Zhen is a self-made artist, and he has gone to great lengths to muddle this fact. The recursive trajectory…
Taking Part in the World
In the 7-channel video Cinema (2013) by Fang Lu, a woman walks into an apparently empty theatre, the stage area…
Finding Things Out
Darren Flook: What links dysfunctional aircraft windows, casino carpets and the railings of London, other than their being part of your…
An Ecstatic Unity
“Grande dame,” “sex,” “Dieter Roth,” “femininity,” “proximity,” “censored,” “folkloric”: these are but a handful of platitudinous words that often describe…
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Washing Machine
Maurizio Cattelan: If you were one of your works, you would be… Francesco Vezzoli: If I were one of my…
The Ephemeral Experiences
Balthazar Lovay: I would like to start with what could be a silly question: Why sound? What does this medium…