Spot 1: GAMING THE SYSTEM
Indicting the Poisonous Imaginary—Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal
In 2021 D’Souza and Staal came together to stage the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. Described as “a more-than-human tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes” committed by Unilever, ING, Airbus, and the Dutch state, the court drew from D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations.
What do we want from each other after we have told our stories
Jemma Desai’s essay “What do we want from each other after we have told our stories,” whispers abolition and points to the question: What if we say no?
Lean Into Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun
Trojan Horses
Spot 2: FEATURES
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Vacant Presence
On how and why artists Park McArthur, Jesse Darling, and Julia Phillips use bodily supports without depicting the figure.
Living and Working in Other Worlds
Tal Beery calls for making new worlds from the deconstructed raw material of our most stolid and faltering institutions.
Spot 3: FINDING OUR WAY
Hew Locke: A World Before the World We Know
Cosmo Whyte speaks with Hew Locke about how Locke’s work delves into deep histories of migration and colonialism.
Doireann O’Malley: Floating Worlds Apart
Lydia Horne interviews Doireann O’Malley about getting lost, the building of virtual spaces, and presenting us with a post-human reality in their recent work, New Maps of Hyperspace_Test_01.
Duane Linklater: mymothersside
Against Confinement—On Mohamed Bourouissa’s Frames of Relation
In this expansive appraisal of the artist’s work, Bailey makes a case for the emancipatory power of images.
Spot 4: INTERVIEWS
Greg Ito: Looking Back to Let Go
This is probably the most personal show I’ve made. I want people to know that the work is connected to these real experiences, so there’s pretty intimate stuff that’s only been seen within our family circle .… I had to ask my mom if it was okay to share these photographs. Since we weren’t able to get permission from relatives who have passed to share these things, all the faces are going to be covered with small white stickers. That way we can keep our family identities private and off the internet. These stickers also create a pathway for viewers to insert themselves into [my family’s] experience.
Curtis Patterson: A Monument Maker Gets His Due
Melissa Messina, the show’s curator, speaks with Patterson about teaching, monuments to civil rights leaders, and his current studio practice, on the occasion of the artist’s first commercial gallery exhibition.
Spot 5: WEB EXCLUSIVES
Consider the Hot Dog: Ivy Haldeman on an American Icon
Haldeman’s paintings capture the way quotidian images inform how we fashion ourselves, how we move about the world. They ask, “How do we wear ourselves into becoming ourselves? And what do things, such as inanimate objects and advertisements, demand from us?
Rallou Panagiotou’s Pocket Microclimate: A Response
Pearl Cleage: Fragile Bodies on a Fragile Planet
The thing that strikes me more and more as I get older is how we spend so much time and energy and bluster building cities, having wars, dominating and insulting each other, when all the time, we are living inside these fragile bodies that have to exist on a fragile planet in the company of other fragile beings and unknown viruses.
Spot 6: INAUDIBILITY
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: GLOSSARIES
