Spot 1: FIRE ECOLOGY
Fire Ecology
Fire Ecology has been an experiment. This publication serves as documentation of that experiment, and its outcome.
Tools for Carving Away
Spot 2: FIRE ECOLOGY
Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina
Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.
ATLANTA ART ECOSYSTEMS
National Art Writing & Publishing Symposium
spoil
Spot 3: ICONOCLASM
Monuments Under Occupation
Patricia Eunji Kim and Mashinka Firuntz Hakopian discuss monuments as physical evidence against cultural erasure, their role in preserving indigenous Armenian histories, and augmented reality as a site for activism and memorialization.
2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt
Spot 4: EPHEMERA & ABSENCE
A Living Presence + and the body, Felix, where is it?
Christian’s essay and machado’s poem produce a dialogue that—in content and form—responds to the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. These interwoven texts can be read separately or as one dialogue in two voices.
Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Chasing Things That Cannot Be Chased
Carolyn Lazard: Living Here and Together
On the limitations of institutional critique, and the transformative beauty of disability justice frameworks.
Spot 5: THE ARCHIVE
The Story of Art Without Men By Katy Hessel
War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Justice Truths and Rights
War Inna Babylon is not an exhibition; it is an everyday lived reality. Although we’ve exhibited some of the experience, I want people to feel it, feel like they have to do something, and [then] ask what we do next. To understand that you can’t sit on the fence, because if you do, you are supporting the status quo.
Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive
Khan—winner of the museum’s second annual UOVO prize, which is awarded to an emergent Brooklyn-based artist—moves through an array of media and materials, trying to capture the textured co-existence of multiple languages and influences.
Cosmo Whyte: Mining the Body for Gold
TK Smith and Cosmo Whyte discuss colonial retentions, notions of home, and Whyte’s recent exhibition at MOCA GA.
Spot 6: RETHINKING INSTITUTIONS
The Museum Union Wave Dossier
In an extensive research project, Maxwell Paparella tracks the wave of museum unionizations in the US, which began in 2018 and collided with COVID-19.
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.
Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016
Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum
Europe’s museums turn to institutional rebrands and infusions of contemporary art to update their imperial-era collections —but are these efforts enough?
Spot 7: A 50 YEAR LEGACY
Christian Walker
Art Isn’t Neutral
Sara Wintz, Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich discuss the impossibility of neutrality
1988 Special Issue on Contemporary Black Artists
We hope these archival texts provide history and context to current conversations, as well as an insightful glimpse into the thoughts of our predecessors from more than three decades ago.
Interview: David Hammons
“I can’t stand art actually. I’ve never, ever liked art, ever.”








