Spot 1: Living & Working
FOCUS GROUP II: PARATEXT
The awkwardness and luxury of an online video exhibition.
Carolyn Lazard: Living Here and Together
On the limitations of institutional critique, and the transformative beauty of disability justice frameworks.
Lilly McElroy: Absurdity Is a Protest
Wrestling with light and absurdity in a world transformed by a global virus.
Spot 2: Living & Working
Another Map to Nevada
Bodies / Antibodies
Miriam Simun’s text-and-image artist project meanders through the first month or so of quarantine, exploring the porousness of the body—the touching/not touching—and offers a kind of choreography of permeability.
Spot 3: Living & Working
Thinking Through Contagion
Confront a problem and think it to death.
Spot 4: Art of the New Civil Rights Era
Crystal Z Campbell
Crystal Z Campbell collapses the past and present to historically contextualize the legacy of the theater and the physicality of the crumbling film as a site of destruction and fortitude.
Chase Hall
With his paintings, sculptures, and photographs, Chase Hall has set himself on a journey to mine the gap between the intimacies of Black life and the traces of psychopathology that gives the appearance of White supremacy an uneasy palatability.
The Moment Is Not Sufficient
“Black art” is a varied concept. The way we define the phrase is tied to the way we think about American identity and who has the ability to claim it.
Spot 6: Interviews
Theaster Gates
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Theaster Gates in conversation with Hesse McGraw.
Myriam Ben Salah: Missed Connections
Mahfuz Sultan and curator Myriam Ben Salah discuss Ben Salah’s curation of the 2020 Made in L.A. exhibition, and being nomads, refugees, or exiles.
Alex Chitty: Things in Motion
Originally trained as a biologist, Alex Chitty is attuned to—but ultimately rejects—the ways we attempt to organize experience.
nora chipaumire: Radical Space
New modalities of appearance and production for the Black body within performative spaces.
Spot 7: Paradox
The Energy Paradox
Japanese artists’ and cultural workers’ strategies for response to the Fukushima disaster.
Spot 8: Reviews
