Spot 1: Mimicry, Camouflage, Transformation
Resisting the Spectacle
Sasha Cordingley explores the shift in representations of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, from the international news media’s spectacle to the intimate banalities of continual struggle, in Resisting the Spectacle—Tiffany Sia’s Never Rest/Unrest.
Cajsa von Zeipel: Nine Lives
Constitutionally Flawed
María Korol’s artist project traces the subtext of history and autobiography in her practice of layered obfuscation.
Mimicry, Camouflage, Transformation
Letter from the Editor
Spot 2: Reviews
Brittney Leeanne Williams: The Arch Is a Portal Is a Belly Is a Back
Alexa Horochowski: Nomeacuerdo (I-don’t-remember-land)
Spot 3: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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.
Spot 4: Living & Working
The Museum Union Wave Dossier
In an extensive research project, Maxwell Paparella tracks the wave of museum unionizations in the US, which began in 2018 and collided with COVID-19.
Szu-Han Ho: COVID–19, the #PPE we all need
Emerging from simultaneous impulses toward despair and hope, Szu-Han Ho shares her thoughts about making, activism, immigration, and ecology.
There Will Be Sacrifices Along The Way
Across six paintings, Tori Tinsley tells the story of a parent, a child, and their donkey helper.
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 5: Monumental Futures Dossier
Thomas J. Price
In an attempt to expand the perimeters of classical sculpture, Price creates figurative works of Black men—and in this single case, a Black woman—in bronze and aluminum at various scales.
Che Onejoon
Che’s project makes evident how monuments are political tools that can manipulate, erase, uncover, and idealize histories, not just in one’s own country but around the world.
Paul Ramírez Jonas
In a nation where symbols are often divisive, Paul Ramírez Jonas reveals the potential of appropriating monument aesthetics to bring people together.
Spot 6: Over The Rainbow
Poncili Creación Fights a More Beautiful Fight
Maxwell Paparella spends time with exuberant Puerto Rican performance collective Poncili Creación.
Tropical Hangover
Between reality and escapism, magic and engineering, there is Florida, where the swamp is an unlikely breeding ground for global cultural capital and investment.
Las Vegas: Still Learning?
As the entertainment capital struggles to pioneer a new arts & culture landscape, the shape of the “future city” begins to take form—and it looks like a “strip.”
Spot 7: WALKING AND WAITING
Wong Ping: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Urban life can be alienating; it limits our mobility and entraps us in fantasy. In Hong Kong, an artist’s erotic animations offer brief release.
The Patty Chang Landscape
“Mao Tse-tung once said that the south had a lot of water and it would be okay if the north borrowed a little.” An artist tracks wandering lakes through piss and tears, from Central Asia to Queens.
