A Nostalgia Queen. A Conversation with Richard Kennedy
It was the last day of March, and I chose the corner with the sage-green marble tables and white sofas…
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General Idea: Cultural Criminals. A Conversation with AA Bronson
“We were cultural criminals, media parasites,” writes AA Bronson in the preface to the catalogue accompanying the traveling retrospective of…
Ventura Profana: Ventures Across Time
What seems to propel Western history is an insatiable drive for transformation, construction, destruction, plunder, and conquest — strategies of…
Show Them, Tell Them, Don’t Explain. A Conversation with Sara Sadik
Marseille-based video and performance artist Sara Sadik is best known for her emblematic work on the Maghrebi diaspora in France.…
Pol Taburet: In Love, In Life, In Violence: The Art and Process of Unbecoming
Sometimes people are simply cool. You know what I mean: when you meet someone, only to be struck by a…
Isa Genzken: Tactical Slippage
Although a single word could never encapsulate the boundless range of Isa Genzken’s artistic production, one that comes close is…
Isabelle Albuquerque: The Patron Saint of Plurality
I’m a little lost without you / That could be an understatement / Now I hope that I have paid…
Mimosa Echard: Escape More, See Less
With great homogeneity of purpose, French artist Mimosa Echard’s work unfolds from one exhibition to the next in an ongoing…
Bri Williams: Defamiliarizing Myths
Bri Williams’s work drifts between feeling and intellect, eroding the distinction between the two into an embodied knowing and experience…
Liminal Systems of Representation. A Conversation with Jordan Strafer
Over the past ten years, Jordan Strafer has developed a body of work that interrogates dysfunction within American society. Through…
Aria Dean: There, There; There’s No “There” There
In my early twenties I worked as a gallery attendant at Dia:Beacon, where I was tasked with maintaining the precise…
Storytelling the History. A Conversation with Cole Lu
Cole Lu has home on his mind when I call at the end of January. The Brooklyn-based artist is planning…
Resilient Bodies; Enchanted Matter Attuned to Death. A Conversation with Isabelle Andriessen
Seeping, oozing, metastasizing, Isabelle Andriessen’s bodily sculptures sit in an affective space between categories. They demand to be read through…
Dominique White: Of Seas and Shoals
For Dominique White, the sea is “a huge body, a living and breathing entity, that we don’t really understand.”1 We…
Tourmaline: Black-American Mytho-Cinematic Universe
The production of the black subject is so tied to the production of photography that there is no blackness that…
God's Fertile Excrement: Tita Cicognani
Let’s dive in with “Infinite Caca” — my first encounter with Tita Cicognani’s deliriously polymorphous practice. The centerpiece of the…