Spot 1: MOTHERHOOD
Disappearing Into Motherhood
Through the work of Susan Bee, Mira Schor, Irene Lusztig, Carmen Winant, & Annesofie Sandal, motherhood becomes a space through which the art process can be revisited.
There Will Be Sacrifices Along The Way
Across six paintings, Tori Tinsley tells the story of a parent, a child, and their donkey helper.
Gender and Artistic Practice in the Ice Age
Keeper of antiquities and curator of the blockbuster 2013 exhibition “Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind,” Jill Cook explains the idea of spiritual landscapes, the surreal continuity between ancient and modern artistic practice, and gender equality in the Paleolithic.
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?
Spot 2: Mimicry, Camouflage, Transformation
Claudia Peña Salinas: Seeing Sites Without Sightseeing
Claudia Peña Salinas takes stock of how some of the most visited archeological and spiritual sites in Mexico endure tourism for generations, yet still provide eternal inspiration.
Constitutionally Flawed
María Korol’s artist project traces the subtext of history and autobiography in her practice of layered obfuscation.
Cajsa von Zeipel: Nine Lives
Spot 3: Reviews
Sasha Wortzel: Dreams of Unknown Islands
PEN15
PEN15 shouldn’t work—two 33-year-old women acting like 13-year-olds while surrounded by a cast of actual 13-year-olds—but good God, does it.
Spot 4: Monumental Interventions
Monumental Futures
TK Smith maps a trajectory of interventions toward the articulation of a monument aesthetic for the African diaspora.
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.
Monumental Collapse
A discussion on toppled statues and reimagining archives.
Spot 5: Selfhood, Community, Home
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.
Rami George: The Tangents, Pivots, and Slants of Artistic Research
Laurel V. McLaughlin and Rami George discuss pushing and pulling against dominant frameworks of selfhood, community, and home.
Spot 6: LIMINAL
The Possibility of an Airport
On the seductive paradigm of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International
Losing Interest
A letter in response to a request to write about architecture.
Achieving Blankness
Notes from the edge of the Atlanta Airport
with photography by Johnathon Kelso
Art on MARTA
A photo essay by David Naugle documenting the public art of Atlanta’s rapid transit system brings a vast collection of commissions out of the stations’ shadows
with an introduction by John Cocker.
Spot 7: GOODS & SERVICES
Logistics Make the World
Synchronizing the world of commerce means attempting to overcome time and space. A study of logistics with a photo essay on UPS by Dustin Chambers.
Gray Harbor
What such water goods reveal—only to persons close enough to smell the clinging dregs of seaweed or willing to caress the faux-leather handbag tucked into a cellophane sleeve—are the sentient negotiations of supple conquest.