Spot 1: Atlanta
WE RIDE THE MARTA BUS
If highways and thoroughfares are Atlanta’s arteries, its bus stops are its pulse sites— places at which human life most authentically inhabits a city on the move.
Dr. Huey Copeland
On influences, the stakes of art history, and pushing the binaries of art historical imagination.
Order & Chaos
Spot 2: Interviews
Joyce Pensato
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Will Corwin “hangs out” with the many and varied inhabitants of Joyceland.
Giving It Away
A conversation on disability and capitalism by way of Constantina Zavitsanos’ artistic practice.
Rethinking Sensory Dimensions
An interview with artist Wendy Jacob about how her investigation of tactility brought her to work with communities of disabled people.
Spot 3: STILL SWEATY
FUNTOWN
An animated video commission pays homage to the life and death of the boardwalk amusement park, captured in all its thrills and anxiety.
Tropical Hangover
Between reality and escapism, magic and engineering, there is Florida, where the swamp is an unlikely breeding ground for global cultural capital and investment.
Spot 4: Disability + Visibility
“Golem Girl”: An Interview With Riva Lehrer
An interview with artist Riva Lehrer about her portraiture practice in which she represents queer and/or disabled bodies.
Henrik Olesen: What is Most Deep is the Skin
On artist Henrik Olesen’s “Hysterical Men” and “The Walk,” which concern mental illness and the pathologization of queerness by way of historical figures.
Access+Ability
Spot 5: Borders, Barriers
St. Louis: Navigating the Brick City
The urban landscape can be seen as a transcription of a city’s history. In St. Louis, the construction and destruction of brick buildings reveal a racialized history of segregation and inequality.
Symbolic (Dis)Possession
Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.
Out of Beirut
I never made it to Beirut until 2009. I was an adult on a career path. I had spent my life until that point confounded by the fact that so few people in the art world looked like me or bore names like mine. Where were they hiding?
Valley Visionaries
In Los Angeles a group of Armenian-American artists sat down with Sara Wintz to discuss the whitewashing of diasporic artists’ contributions in their own historic neighborhoods – and how to fight back.