Don’t Be Alive. Aki Goto
The first time I encountered Aki Goto’s work, it was received as a message from a friend during the summer…
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Eros is a verb. Coco Klockner
In the myth of Eros, the god of love and desire emerged from Chaos in the beginning of life itself…
Reality Breaks the Frame. Lenard Giller
Lenard Giller sees his moving-image works as closer to photography than film. The camera never moves; its stasis is kinetically…
Spectral Nomenclature. Anastasia Pavlou
Oh heart, oh heart, blind like daylight — Dionne Brand [1] [1] Dionne Brand, Ossuaries (McClelland & Stewart, 2010), 34. I talk to Anastasia…
Architecture versus the Entropic City: An excerpt of a Whatsapp chat.
Scott Cohen: We are talking about the architecture of exceptionalism in the context of what you have called the “entropic city,”…
[Diary Entry – Undated, perhaps imagined]. Anna Clegg
It’s difficult to pinpoint where Anna Clegg’s paintings first appeared. Maybe it was online, or in a basement gallery in…
Lygia Clark “Retrospective” Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Mies van der Rohe’s idea for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin was based on an earlier project for which he…
Compassionate Pessimism. Cécile B. Evans
A memory: Before reconnecting with them a few days ago in preparation for this text, I had last spoken to…
Race, Property, Rebellion. Cameron Rowland
They remained oblivious to the worlds within worlds that existed just beyond the edge of their awareness and yet were…
Peter Fischli "People Planet Profit" LUMA Arles
“People Planet Profit” brings together several groups of works from the past decade, which Peter Fischli has combined into a…
Are All Crises Equal? A Conversation with MOS’s Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample
Michael Abel: Currently, the prevailing mindset within the field of architecture centers on crises. But there is a noticeable disconnect between…
“Magic Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order" WIELS, Brussels
“Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order” — which reconsiders our relationship to the planet at a time of climate emergency —…
Seoul: Glitch City
Plans are always copy-pasted. There is no planning, no imagination. Seoul is not built; it is generated through calculation. Buildings…
“akâmi” Camden Art Centre, London
How do objects speak when language falls short? What does it mean to cross — not just borders, but generations,…
Total Warfare. A Conversation with Luigi Alberto Cippini
Michael Abel: First question — how does Volumes begin? Luigi Alberto Cippini: What I tried to do, within my limitations, was to make something…
And Yet. Diego Marcon
“I like the term pervert or perversion,” says Diego Marcon, speaking to me during an early June heatwave, his Italian rrrrrs rolling deliciously. He’s…