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…
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Martin Margiela Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
Amid the nonlinear room scarved out of an aseptic and at times invisible set design, I couldn’t help but wonder…
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…
Oliver Laric “Betweenness” Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
On the occasion of a donation by the private collection and curatorial platform Modern Forms, London, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,…
Hurvin Anderson “Reverb” Thomas Dane Gallery / London
An unfinished, abandoned beachside resort, where nature has subsumed man-made limestone and concrete structures, provides inspiration for resplendent, imaginary landscapes…
Black Lives Matter
Originally published in Flash Art no. 324 February-March 2019. When I came to the United States in January 1955 to…
Etel Adnan: Responsibility to That Green
Originally published in Flash Art no. 324 February-March 2019. When I was thirteen, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal, who were…
On Etel Adnan: An Introduction
Originally published in Flash Art no. 324 February-March 2019. The very first work I saw by Etel Adnan — one…
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…
Arts at CERN: Where Art Meets Science. A conversation with Mónica Bello
Over the past hundred years or so, artists and scientists have come to follow increasingly common paths, from exploration to…
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…
Martine Syms “Aphrodite’s Beasts” Fridericianum / Kassel
Martine Syms’s video art, photographs, and autobiographical fiction are anchored by a first-person narrator — with all her potential for…
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…
Los Angeles, July 2021
TW: this text contains graphic language about gun violence. I was born at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles on September…