Artificial Centuries: Hate and the City in Gary Indiana’s Criticism
Originally published in Flash Art International n. 324, February–March 2019 The shuttering of the Village Voice in August was met…
Magazine Articles
Echoes in the Garden: Marina Xenofontos
Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? — T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton” (1936) A beat bounces off a…
“Arcadia” Bally Foundation / Lugano
“For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts;…
Same is More: Parisian Architecture à l’identique
For a century, architecture has been a crippled art — every building that has been built proves it; formal combinations…
Fantasies of Value: Sara Cwynar
Like most disasters, it’s said the day was cloudless. It’s June 11, 1955, at 6:25 p.m. at the 24 Hours…
Bruce Graham Residence: A Matter of Proportion
I should start out by stating that I have never been to Bruce Graham’s house. I hadn’t heard of it…
Mortal Machines: Mire Lee
Deep down, bodies are messy. Really messy. Filthy, sweaty, and grimy. All the soaps, creams, pastes, and perfumes can scrub…
Glory Whole. Jack O’Brien
Jack O’Brien is a master of the tease. Though culturally laden with sexual connotations, its potency is driven less by…
A NEW (ART) WORLD
We are living in surreal times. A lot of unimaginable things have happened over the past eight months, and we…
John Winter House: North London Gothic
Early on a recent spring morning, I tucked my trouser legs into my socks, hopped on my bicycle, and started…
Storm Girl. A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger
“I alone (well, probably not) know the great secret of this existence, and I’ll have to live out the rest…
Jana Euler “Oilopa” WIELS / Brussels
At a time of climate upheaval, when every action and gesture is examined in terms of its carbon footprint, it’s…
How You’re Supposed to Be. A Conversation with Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace makes work by way of accumulation: out of the “ephemera” of living, out of emotional pain, selves and…
Submit to the Black Compost. 1 A Conversation with Rirkrit Tiravanija
I unfolded the letter and read the contents. The letter is a xeroxed copy. The first line of the letter…
Marianna Simnett “WINNER” Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
Marianna Simnett’s three-channel video installation WINNER (2024) occupies a vast space in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. Viewers enter through a dark…
Donald Rodney “Visceral Canker” Spike Island / Bristol
Standing in front of Donald Rodney’s Visceral Canker (1990) — a seemingly living work, which this survey exhibition at Spike…