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.
Bleeding Out: On the Use of Blood in Contemporary Art
Blood corrupts conventions of purity and privacy to suggest all elements of the body can be used for expression.
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
There Will Be Sacrifices Along The Way
Across six paintings, Tori Tinsley tells the story of a parent, a child, and their donkey helper.
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.
Cast Iron
An artist almost drowns, then reflects on Black Buoyancy, Hemingway, and Mami Wata.
Obstacle Race
A personal essay on the artist’s navigation of the art world while disabled.
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
Jes Fan: Infectious Materials, Molecular Memories
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.
Jared Buckhiester: Male Trouble
Jared Buckhiester and Logan Lockner discuss the thrill and humiliation of attraction, the influences of Billy Budd and Querelle on Buckhiester’s current exhibition, and the question of how much of a person’s “arousal template”—the fantasies, thoughts, images, sights, and smells that turn you on—is given, rather than chosen.
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
