Spot 1: Speculative Masculinities
Kenneth Tam: The Silence We Hold Between Our Bodies
Re’al Christian speaks with Kenneth Tam about his recent work Silent Spikes; the entwined mythologies of American Cowboys with Chinese laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad; and the intimacy—and intensity—of male coming-of-age rituals.
autosexuality
Shehab Awad takes up the term autosexuality (n.) and offers a parable of self-discovery and acceptance.
Fabienne Lasserre: Eye Contact
Spot 2: Interviews
Nikima Jagudajev: Getting To Know Each Other in Public
Nikima Jagudajev choreographs the social. In her latest work, Jagudajev brings together the following elements: Dance, the I Ching, food, Zoom, meditation, live musical performance, time portals, long-term collaborators, new performers, and the audience.
Randy Ford: How To Pave a Street for Queens
A conversation about creating and protecting spaces for queer and trans people of color.
nora chipaumire: Radical Space
New modalities of appearance and production for the Black body within performative spaces.
Lilly McElroy: Absurdity Is a Protest
Wrestling with light and absurdity in a world transformed by a global virus.
Spot 3: Sports sports sports
13 Ways of Looking at an Olympic Cauldron
An oddity to many, a problem to some, and an icon to few: Atlanta’s Olympic Cauldron, (fondly) revisited.
with photographs by Johnathon Kelso
Fantasy Art Draft
In Texas, the Dallas Cowboys share a home with world-class works of art; recruited by owners Gene and Jerry Jones, curator Mary Zlot quarterbacks the collection.
LINSANITY
An artist processes the enduring impact and evolving mediatized identity of the NBA’s Jeremy Lin—in sports culture, and in his own artistic practice.
Spot 4: Reviews
Suzanne Bocanegra: Valley
Patty Chang: Milk Debt
Telling Stories About Ourselves: Zia Anger’s Radical Mythmaking
Spot 6: Mimicry, Camouflage, Transformation
Resisting the Spectacle
Sasha Cordingley explores the shift in representations of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, from the international news media’s spectacle to the intimate banalities of continual struggle, in Resisting the Spectacle—Tiffany Sia’s Never Rest/Unrest.
Architectural Camouflage and the Class Dynamics of Housing
Gabriel Cira reveals how confounding façades can also reinforce the dominant narrative by masking economic differences to favor a mirage of homogeneity. Photos by Pat Falco.
Inaudibility: Krista Belle Stewart’s Sonic Repatriation of Knowledge
Krista Belle Stewart mines the power of strategic incomprehensibility to reclaim ownership through the mediation of access and refusal.
Spot 7: Not Working
Losing Interest
A letter in response to a request to write about architecture.
Balconism
Constant Dullaart advocates for intelligent communication, adapted for the state of privacy in the digital age.