Spot 1: Metamorphosis
Yozmit: Embodiment And Metamorphosis
Los Angeles–based performance artist, costume designer, and singer-songwriter Yozmit emphasizes the body as a site of transformation
Queer Intimacy: A Conversation with Diedrick Brackens
The implications of emerging fully black and fully queer into the art world, and of creating images wherein men touch.
Xandra Ibarra: Endurance and Excess
Alexis Wilkinson and Xandra Ibarra discuss cockroach consciousness.
Spot 2: Energy Structures
The Energy Paradox
Japanese artists’ and cultural workers’ strategies for response to the Fukushima disaster.
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Poncili Creación Fights a More Beautiful Fight
Maxwell Paparella spends time with exuberant Puerto Rican performance collective Poncili Creación.
Spot 3: Atlanta
clarkston
Just outside Atlanta, one of America’s most diverse refugee destinations.
Lupita
The evolution of a gender-fluid individual navigating the intersection between private life and the public space.
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 4: Disability + Visibility
On Evasion
A formal and historical reading of a set of drawings probably forged by an analyst and used to make various claims about autistic people.
Henrik Olesen: What is Most Deep is the Skin
On artist Henrik Olesen’s “Hysterical Men” and “The Walk,” which concern mental illness and the pathologization of queerness by way of historical figures.
Obstacle Race
A personal essay on the artist’s navigation of the art world while disabled.
Spot 5: Borders, Barriers
St. Louis: Navigating the Brick City
The urban landscape can be seen as a transcription of a city’s history. In St. Louis, the construction and destruction of brick buildings reveal a racialized history of segregation and inequality.
New Frontiers
Current developments in London highlight the politics of “Creative Quarters.”
Out of Beirut
I never made it to Beirut until 2009. I was an adult on a career path. I had spent my life until that point confounded by the fact that so few people in the art world looked like me or bore names like mine. Where were they hiding?