Month: June 2022
What Makes Another World Possible?
An exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall houses a number of artists curated by Corina L. Apostol that explore various aspects of socially engaged artworks.
Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo: Para-institutional Kinshasa
Lauren Tate Baeza and Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo talk about particularities of how a continent-wide trend of community-centered and para-institutional arts organizing unfolds in his hometown of Kinshasa; his personal journey from artist to administrator; and his own organization, Kin ArtStudio.
We Meet in a Patchwork: Landscapes and Elsewheres
In the following collaborative text, Makshya Tolbert and DJ Hellerman weave a patchwork of shared curiosity and mutual enchantment while physically re/situating themselves within the American Southeast. At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Tolbert and Hellerman’s bodies and spirits converge, diverge, expand.
Geograpologies
To begin with, we needed a new word, a neologism to wrestle us out of our standard 2022 English (a time high on updates and vitriol, but low on resonance); a word to carve out terrain of another condition: Geograpologies
The French Dispatch: How Wes Anderson Critics Gaslit Themselves, and Me
There is a wide chasm between what The French Dispatch presents itself to be and what it is.