Spot 1: Disability + Visibility
Obstacle Race
A personal essay on the artist’s navigation of the art world while disabled.
Dependency and Improvisation
Amalle Dublon, Constantina Zavitsanos, and Park McArthur share notes about access, thickness and gain, and site and dependency in relation to McArthur’s recent exhibition Projects 195: Park McArthur at MoMA.
Spot 2: Reviews
Jesse Darling: The Ballad of Saint Jerome
Louder Than Words
Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska: Epilogue (Form of an Argument)
Spot 3: Borders, Barriers
Condomillennium
Aaron Gemmill has spent years photographing the proliferation of luxury condominiums, mostly in Brooklyn, NY. His project is a selection of these photos (which Gemmill originally posted to Instagram under the hashtag “#condoreport) and his prints of the Plexiglas windowpanes used to give passersby a glimpse into construction sites.
Porous Cosmopolis: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s many co-extensive projects merge activist praxis, intellectual and skill exchange, horizontalist planning, and creative production to examine and change the way that borders, and the communities around them, are conceived of and function.
Spot 4: Atlanta
Art on MARTA
A photo essay by David Naugle documenting the public art of Atlanta’s rapid transit system brings a vast collection of commissions out of the stations’ shadows
with an introduction by John Cocker.
Irony & Loss
An award-winning game designer and philosopher talks Pokémon GO, object-oriented ontology, addiction— and, most importantly, “stuff.”
with photographs by Brandon English
Gatecrashing with Katherine Jentleson
An interview introduces Katherine Jentleson, scholar and curator of folk art, now at the High Museum of Art.
Spot 5: Ports of Call
Gray Harbor
What such water goods reveal—only to persons close enough to smell the clinging dregs of seaweed or willing to caress the faux-leather handbag tucked into a cellophane sleeve—are the sentient negotiations of supple conquest.
Captives
I went back to Charleston, SC, for a wedding recently, and of all the port cities I have visited, lived in, or loved, Charleston is the worst.