Desperate Things
What does a thing know of its own production? The language here isn’t mine, but rather comes from the title…
Magazine Articles
No Real Corpse
Dear Frances, There’s been a great bondage that you’ve always known. Once we shared asthmatic anguish, heaving spheres of cultural…
New Sincerity
I had hoped to talk to you as if to my dearest friend since my words are limited and there…
Snowblind
Porzia Duo went on living. He had to keep his distance from the people who brushed past him by expanding…
A Letter to Mr. Jing
Dear Mr. Jing, Greetings! It is only now that I have made the decision to follow you — to monitor…
No, cup
Get the family out forever, out from around the table. Now, at breakfast, the most important objects on the table…
Herald
It was her own peculiar joy, something hard to maintain amongst her everyday life and everyday home, but that came…
Considerable Inner Strenght
In recent years, several international novelists have sought to include contemporary art in their novels — among them Michel Houellebecq,…
Idris Khan
Catherine Borra: You trace genealogies that link your personal position to a stream of histories. In your early works you…
Justin Mortimer
Family Dollar (2009). Courtesy the Artist and Master Piper, London. Photography by Anna Arca. In his introduction to The Metastases…
Einat Amir
Virginie Bobin: Ideal Viewer (2009), the performance piece that you recently did in New York, involved a Crying Woman, an…
Michael Cline
Nikola Cernetic: Recently you added some kind of sculpture-installation in your exhibition. Do you feel painting is not enough, or…
Los Carpinteros
Cromo (2009). Courtesy Habana, Havana. Merrily Kerr: What brings you to New York? Los Carpinteros: We’re designing the set for…
Reto Pulfer
Ognams, 2008. View of the performance at Liste, Basel. Courtesy the Artist and Balice Hertling, Paris. Photo: Alexis Zavialoff. Annette…
Mandla Reuter
The examination and alteration of the institution and the display of art — as inaugurated by such artists as Michael…
Alexandre Singh
Alexandre Singh is a new type of storyteller — a Wikipediast who sources his mind-bending stories from the web, following…