Spot 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Alison Nguyen’s Andra8 and the Gig Workers of the Data Economy

Sitting in front of a wrinkled sea-green backdrop is Andra8, the protagonist of Alison Nguyen’s 19-minute film my favorite software...
Type:
Features
Credit:
Text / Sasha Cordingley

stones make birds make stones

Kite, INYAN/ZINTKALA/INYAN KAGAPI (STONES MAKE BIRDS MAKE STONES), 2021 Created in response to Martha Tuttle’s installation, A stone that thinks...
Type:
Projects
Source:
April 26, 2023
Credit:
Project / Kite

Behavior Conditioner: The Narrative Imagination of Ian Cheng

The inscrutability of the universe is quite enough for us to think about. —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet After...
Type:
Features
Source:
Spring 2023
Credit:
Text / Maxwell Paparella

Spot 2: LATEST REVIEWS

The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility

Moments like these, where the show drilled down on its complex resistance to heteronormativity (and thus paternalism), heightened the breakdown at Usines Fagor, with its abundance of large-scale installations that, while meaningful—as with Dana Awartani’s Standing by the Ruins of Aleppo (2021), a clay brick reproduction of the courtyard floor in Aleppo’s Grand Mosque—hinted at a curatorial anxiety to fill the site’s cavernous spaces.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
May 12, 2023
Credit:
Text / Stephanie Bailey

Neo Muyanga: A Mass of Cyborgs

A Mass of Cyborgs, Neo Muyanga’s first solo, is a fitting inaugural exhibition for the Center for Art, Research and...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Spring 2023
Location:
New York Center for Art, Research, and Alliances
Credit:
Text / Dina Ramadan

Cameron Downey: Lord Split Me Open

Lord Split Me Open is Cameron Downey’s first major solo exhibition. The show comes on the heels of other recent...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
June 1, 2023
Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Credit:
Text / Michael Curran

Spot 3: OTHER SPECIES

OTHER SPECIES

Cornell Labs Panama Fruit Feeder Cam at Canopy Lodge

The Fruit Feeder can be viewed as a kind of durational performance art. Its participants may be unaware of their roles, but they perform their daily dramas nevertheless. Fights between peckish birds over the best bit of mango or the prime perch on a branch often rattle the otherwise tranquil setting. The overwhelming growth and decay of the surrounding forest and the exhausting, relentless tussle between life and death infuse the scene with a kind of madness

Type:
Reviews
Credit:
Text / EC Flamming

Nope—A Certain Tendency of the Immaterial

Top to Bottom: Jordan Peele, Nope, 2022, still [courtesy of IMDb and Universal Studios]; Prince, Under the Cherry Moon, 1986,...
Type:
Features
Source:
Winter 2022/23
Credit:
Text / Sherae Rimpsey

Monira Al Qadiri: Refined Vision

Whereas fossil fuel exploration happens on a global scale, Al Qadiri zeroes in on extraction and refinement, which are much more visible at ground level in certain regions of the world. This exhibition drew a nuanced connection between the Persian Gulf region and the Texas Gulf Coast (although not noted in the exhibition information, the processing infrastructure of the latter region certainly extends into southern Louisiana).

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Winter 2022
Location:
Houston, TX, Blaffer Art Museum
Credit:
Text / Park Myers

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere

Each collaborative entity mobilizes its own kind of micro-performance, but together they maintain a coherence through the way we simultaneously apprehend them in the sensorium. As such, the materials feel less instrumentalized by aesthetics and more mysterious.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
February 1, 2023
Location:
Cambridge, MA
Credit:
Text / Laurel V. McLaughlin

Spot 4: DATA SOUNDS AND IMAGES

DATA SOUNDS AND IMAGES

Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive

Hito Steyerl is one of the most important artists of her generation, a landmark thinker of the image and its status under late capitalist accelerationism. Yet her recent retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum, I Will Survive, was marked by a semiotic complexity that did not coincide with what had been happening to the body in the past two years—my body, but also the body in a broader philosophical sense.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2022
Location:
Amsterdam
Credit:
Text / Natasha Marie Llorens

What Makes Another World Possible?

An exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall houses a number of artists curated by Corina L. Apostol that explore various aspects of socially engaged artworks.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Spring 2022
Location:
Tallinn, Estonia
Credit:
Text/ Stephanie Bailey

Danger in the Liminal Spaces

Instead of pigments on canvas, the computer manipulates pixels in a monitor where the visible world is reduced to infinitely shifting variations on the screen.

Source:
November/December 1996
Location:
New Orleans
Credit:
Text / D. Eric Bookhardt

Energy Structures

Letter from the Editor

Type:
Letters
Source:
Spring/Summer 2019
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Sarah Higgins

Spot 5: ENTRIES FROM THE GLOSSARY

ENTRIES FROM THE GLOSSARY

alternative (1)

Our alternatives have changed.

Type:
Glossary
Source:
Summer 2017
Credit:
Text / Jasmine Amussen & Tracy Soo-Ming Neale

social capital

Martin G. Fuller is “kind of friendly with” the ART PAPERS editorial team.

Type:
Glossary
Source:
July/August 2014
Credit:
Text / Martin G. Fuller

ordinary

A Close Reading of the Good Ol’ Ordinary

Type:
Glossary
Source:
November/December 2016
Credit:
Text / Jennifer Bonner

anxiety

On fear, inhibition, and “freedom.”

Type:
Glossary
Source:
July/August 2016
Credit:
Text / Kimberly Drew

Spot 6: BASED IN ATLANTA

BASED IN ATLANTA

Founding Stories:
Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta

“Founding Stories: Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta” was a decade-by-decade series of panel discussions exploring the founding stories of a selection of Atlanta’s DIY, grassroots, and artist-run spaces.

Type:
Dossier
Credit:
Art Papers

Founding Stories: 1980s

The Mattress Factory Group, Blue Rat Gallery, Arts Exchange, Little Beirut Art Space & Café Bizzoso.

Spot 7: FROM THE ARCHIVES:

Because the Sky Will Be Filled With Sulfur—Jeremy Bolen

It is with grace that Jeremy Bolen’s exhibition Because the Sky Will Be Filled With Sulfur tackles the immense amount...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
August, 3rd, 2022
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Credit:
Text / Noah Reyes

Alan Ruiz: Infrapolitics

Infrastructure is where the material and political forces shaping our experience most intimately coincide. It is the fabric of the...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2019
Location:
Richmond, VA
Credit:
Text / Allison Myers

All My …/All My— Designing Motherhood and the Labyrinth of Reproductive Health

The breathtaking range of topics in Designing Motherhood—choices of whether to conceive children or take a pregnancy to term, infant mortality, sterilization abuse, thalidomide, cesarean birth curtains, masculine birth, baby formula, the faja (a wrap for binding a postpartum abdomen), gender reveals, the Del Em Device, car seats, carers and carrying, the tie-waist skirt, the breast pump, and so on—reveals the immense, intricate knowledge necessary to understand reproductive health, and to advocate for conditions that promote wellbeing.

Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2022
Credit:
Text/ Dinah Ryan