Spot 1: ENERGY STRUCTURES
A Brief History of Power
Contributing editor Stephanie Bailey traces the lines of electrification to political power via Chilean artist Iván Navarro and the 38th EVA International in Ireland.
Zina Saro-Wiwa
The Energy Paradox
Japanese artists’ and cultural workers’ strategies for response to the Fukushima disaster.
Spot 2: Reviews
Chernobyl
APEX: Avantika Bawa
Jennifer Wen Ma: Cry Joy Park—Gardens of Dark and Light
Spot 3: Atlanta
Dr. Huey Copeland
On influences, the stakes of art history, and pushing the binaries of art historical imagination.
Beverly Buchanan
At the Brooklyn Museum, then at Spelman College in Atlanta, an exhibition reveals a practice about memory, place, and endurance, honed across manifold divides.
Zipporah Camille Thompson: Black Cloud Prism
Amy Sherald: Pictures of American Life
In April 2018, as interviews with Sherald and features about her continued to stream across headlines, former ART PAPERS Editor and Artistic Director Victoria Camblin spoke with the artist about living and working in not-New York, the power of being mainstream, and how making art is a damn job.
Spot 4: Disability + Visibility
Glossary: Disability + Visibility
An introduction of key terms for disability.
Sitting Beside Yvonne Rainer’s Convalescent Dance
Contextualizing Rainer’s “Convalescent Dance” (1967) alongside the spectacularization of disabled bodies during the Vietnam War, and framing convalescing as a radical act.
Access+Ability
Spot 5: Borders, Barriers
Symbolic (Dis)Possession
Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.
harder / border
People who cross a border, or break through a barrier, often feel that they carry the other side within them—as one lived reality nested inside another. Selected poems from Sudanese-American author Safia Elhillo capture the poignant complexities of this condition.