Spot 1: HORROR AFTER HORROR
Plantation Horror
Plantations, as we understand them, declined after Emancipation. But the plantation of the American South has endured in the cultural imagination because of its ability to relentlessly innovate. The Southern plantation—as a place, and as an idea—has become decoupled from its violent past, making it easier to commodify for public consumption.
Horror After Horror
This issue, Horror After Horror, explores a range of interpretations and evocations of Horror as a medium of displacement through which to process extreme feelings and cultural conflicts. The title alludes both to the relentlessness of horrific events unfolding on a global scale and to the anticipation and unthinkability of what could come next.
Listen to Our Muertos—Emperatriz Plácido San Martín
Spot 2: 1990 ARCHIVE FEATURE “ON CRITICISM”
SPECIAL 1990 ISSUE ON CRITICISM
Art and The Public
Criticism and Theory
The Role of Art Criticism in the Community
Spot 3: AIDS, Art, and Activism
Gone But Not Disrespected
On the last Sunday in June 2022, a particularly hot day in Philadelphia, about 100 of us gathered in front of Saint Luke’s landing for the culmination of an experimental AIDS memorial called Gone and for Ever, a community-informed spectacle of sight, sound, and grief—part of Remembrance, a project of the William Way LGBT Community Center and funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage—to grapple with the question of how to memorialize amid the ongoing crisis.
Reckless Rolodex
VOICE = SURVIVAL
AIDS Art Action
Spot 4: QUEER VOICES
Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar
Choreographies of the Impossible, the 35th Bienal de São Paulo
Christian Walker
Representing Lesbian Subjectivities
Spot 5: ENTOMOPHOBIA
Xandra Ibarra: Endurance and Excess
Alexis Wilkinson and Xandra Ibarra discuss cockroach consciousness.
An Eye for An Eye — Bambitchell’s Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
Bugs and Beasts works to remind viewers that such stories aren’t simply dusty curiosities from the footnotes of history books, but practices that fundamentally shaped how we came to understand the intersections between performance, punishment, and the social and legal limits of personhood.
Of Oysters, Roaches, and New Pessimism in Hong Kong
It’s all very Videodrome. That body horror manifests in phone-breath-bed 3 (2023), a sculpture presented in its own small room. A silicone face emerges out of a Perspex panel, where, lower down, a silicone slab forms a womblike concave depression. The panel hovers over the form of a hospital bed with the support of gray plastic piping, whose mattress is a screen-skin painting with creased dermal folds framing silicone protrusions that swell from the flatness.
Spot 6: Food for Thought; Thought for Food
7-Eleven Glazed Honey Bun
Art and Food: Better Together?
Fanny Singer sheds historical light on contemporary art practices using food sourcing, making, and eating as platforms for social engagement.
Milk
Charting the historical, cultural, and scientific resonances of milk, the exhibition draws connections between protection and power. Across the works, milk closes the space between bodies. It destabilizes those things we typically consider natural, and it asks who gets to participate in the fantasy of motherhood.
The National Gingerbread House Competition™
Spot 7: FROM THE GLOSSARY
anal
Parasite
clarkston
Just outside Atlanta, one of America’s most diverse refugee destinations.
