Participatory Design or Processual Formalism? Frei Otto, the Ökohaus, and the Ökohäusler
My first, fleeting encounter with the Ökohaus (Eco-House) project came during an all too brief visit to Berlin in November…
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Pan Daijing “Sudden Places” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Intentional obfuscation runs through “Sudden Places,” the exhibition by Chinese-born, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Pan Daijing at the Walker Art Center…
Between Ruins: Zazou Roddam
I’ve known Zazou Roddam for almost a decade, long before Roddam considered herself an artist or I was curating. For…
Food for the Journey
In Christianity, the cross announces a terrifying requirement, a gloomy invitation to participate in that at which we “shudder,” according…
Survival Mechanism. A Conversation with Christine Sun Kim
Christine Sun Kim began working at the Whitney in 2007 as an educator, and later, as a consultant to establish…
Rineke Dijkstra “Beach Portraits” Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
There is no shortage of these images circulating around the internet, but coming face to face with them is another…
Sculpting Light. A Conversation with Nana Wolke
When I speak with Nana Wolke over Zoom, she has just returned to New York after spending Christmas in Ljubljana,…
Cyprien Gaillard’s Danse Macabre
Death, the great social equalizer, is the subject of Hans Holbein’s The Dance of Death: a collection of forty-one woodcuts…
Happy Accidents, Silver Linings: Nat Faulkner
Nat Faulkner produces images — but also the potential for images. He uses photography’s sleight of hand, from the micro…
Not (Not) An Autobiography. A Conversation with Sophie Calle
Arriving at Sophie Calle’s studio in Malakoff on a rainy day, one steps into a quiet courtyard where an urban-yet-wild…
Scaling Collapse: David Eskenazi
Crisis Formalism has a subcategory: “Collapse.” This is the most challenging stance taken in the issue, as it demands absolute…
TAVROS, Athens. A Conversation with Maria-Thalia Carras
When I visited TAVROS to speak with its founder and director, Maria-Thalia Carras, I had already consumed three of my…
Julie Mehretu “A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory” Museum of Contemporary Art Australia / Sydney
Julie Mehretu has been lauded as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time. The New York Times…
Nasty Girl Kills English Language. Ebun Sodipo
Start with the opening scene of Spike Lee’s 1996 comedy Girl 6, in which an as yet no-name aspiring actress,…
Amy Feldman “Good Fortune” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna
Visitors to Austria’s capital often seek traces of Vienna circa 1900 – a time when Gustav Klimt painted his opulent,…
Jon Rafman: Virtual Flânerie.
For nearly two decades, Jon Rafman has been a leading voice in the discourse about the relationship between Internet technology…