Spot 1: CORRUPTION
I Will Not Be Purified
Anyone who has ever been life-threateningly ill will know the desperation it breeds. You’ll try anything. You’ll do anything. And when treatments fail, and doctors—shockingly unskilled in empathy—shrug and suggest this means you will die, you start looking anywhere for help.
Locus Hour
In Thill’s work, spirituality and hope coexist in tension with the banal materials of daily life, presenting an idea of transcendence that must pass through and engage with the grit of existence.
Language Around Corruption
Who has the authority to witness and name corruption in another?
Spot 2: CONVERSATIONS
Katherine Jentleson: Whose History of American Art?
Katherine Jentleson and Logan Lockner reflect on the creation of two concurrent exhibitions at the High Museum of Art—”Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe and “Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America.”
Angela Ziqi Zhang and Maggie Crowley: Flash, Bang, Fizz
In the summer of 2021, two solo exhibitions in Chicago, one by Maggie Crowley and another by Angela Ziqi Zhang, echoed one another in many ways: connected by the dotted lines of the artists’ friendship and shared history, the presentations revealed common concerns—around value and experience, affect and attention—that play out in both of their practices through distinct visual and material registers.
Mark Thomas Gibson: Chaos Is The Season
Will Corwin interviews Mark Thomas Gibson about Honoré Daumier’s influence on Gibson’s works of political satire, keeping momentum after a political win, and the challenges of building upon a broken foundation.
Spot 3: ARTISTS WRITING
Constitutionally Flawed
María Korol’s artist project traces the subtext of history and autobiography in her practice of layered obfuscation.
There Will Be Sacrifices Along The Way
Across six paintings, Tori Tinsley tells the story of a parent, a child, and their donkey helper.
The Heart’s Knowledge Will Never Decay
How, through the gestures, objects and images we create, do we represent our own, and another’s emotional states, display care for each other through that ability, while also inventing new ways to empathize in our own moment and through time?
do / you
This project by writer and video artist Jason Lipeles explores questions of past and present, and of love in isolation and through connection, and relies heavily upon the asterisk’s potential.
Spot 4: QUESTIONS OF SCALE
Against Closure: John Akomfrah and the Monumental
John Akomfrah’s practice can be considered in relation to the problematics of monuments, and it is apt to do so at a time of widespread decommissioning of statues depicting individuals long celebrated for their roles in dominant narratives of human progress.
Spot 5: 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.
Operating Along Desire: Derrick Woods-Morrow
Tyra A. Seals speaks with Derrick Woods-Morrow about deconstructing masculinity, moving through feeling, and interventions on the sartorial codes of male-identified bodies.
Spot 6: ON PERFORMANCE
Randy Ford: How To Pave a Street for Queens
A conversation about creating and protecting spaces for queer and trans people of color.
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.
nora chipaumire: Radical Space
New modalities of appearance and production for the Black body within performative spaces.
Spot 7: REVIEWS
