Coactivity: Between the Human and Nonhuman
A new generation of artists is exploring the intrinsic qualities of materials “informed” by the activities of humanity, and bearing…
Magazine Articles
Libita Clayton Spike Island / Bristol
To access Libita Clayton’s immersive sound installation Quantum Ghost (2019), one must enter the space through a cave mouth leading…
Tawan Wattuya Hatch Art Project / Singapore
In these ominous images we see the dark vision of humanity that has characterized Wattuya’s work for much of his…
Lis Rhodes Nottingham Contemporary / UK
This summer, all four galleries at Nottingham Contemporary are dedicated to the largest survey exhibition of Lis Rhodes to date…
Unsublime Ecology
The frightening theme of global warming is often addressed in catastrophic terms expressed in visions of utter annihilation. At times…
Derek Jarman Amanda Wilkinson / London
Twelve paintings made by Derek Jarman between 1989 and 1990 make up the exhibition “Shadow Is the Queen of Colour”…
Eco-Tripping: Ant Farm's Environmental Media
In 1970, the American architecture and video collective Ant Farm advertised their distinctly countercultural services as “air buildings, nomadic visions”…
Between Two Bookends: Ecology and the Work of Mark Dion
The environmental catastrophe that is currently unfolding before our eyes has a single culprit at its source — the human…
DATA MATTER
The world is drowning in data. Every second, 2.8 million emails are sent, 30,000 phrases are Googled, and 600 updates…
Arus Balik NTU, Centre for Contemporary Art / Singapore
“Arus Balik – From Below the Wind to Above the Wind and Back Again” is an exhibition that references an…
Spectacle of Concealment
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!
Transformation, Immortality, and the Abject in Ivana Bašić’s Sculptures
Some years ago I ordered a batch of butterfly chrysalis online. They were intended for a project by an artist,…
"Right: to Write ________" Toward a Democalligraphic U-topia. Huang Jing Yuan
If writing is the mother of the comatose archive, I wonder if exhibiting could be the rehearsal hall for a…
Future Perfect Visitors. ABBA at the End of the Modernist Paradigm
In 1972 the Pruitt–Igoe housing estate was blasted into rubble in St. Louis, Missouri. Also in 1972 the Swedish pop…
The Process Behind Joan Jonas' New Oceanic Work
During the making of her exhibition “Moving Off the Land II,” currently on view at Ocean Space in Venice, Joan…
Dora Budor. On Being a “Deviation Amplifying” System
Questioning perception and experience, the Croatian-born, New York-based artist Dora Budor highlights the urgency of building new relationships between appearance…