Month: July 2023
Making Time: Mildred Thompson’s Magnetic Fields
Color, line, form move toward an undefined but perceived center—by moving out of it. Density builds, decimates, then replenishes. There’s...
Insisting on Resisting : Counterpublic 2023
St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Emblem of Manifest Destiny....
Amalia Amaki/Liz Hampton
When the Feminist Women’s Health Center expanded, a library of books and video tapes on women’s health issues was made...
Carolyn Lazard: Long Take
The dancer is not present In a dark room, a white spotlight hits a vacant dance floor. Three channels of...
Arrested Childhood
For those who have forgotten the savage inner child, or the fierce manipulation of socialization and growing up, “Arrested Childhood”...
Radical Radixes—On Lili Dujourie’s Mimesis
The work consists of an upright, kinked, and broken cylinder, from the base of which protrude zigzagging, forked rods; the whole evokes a barren tree trunk, its roots growing down the sides of its plinth, clinging to it. Two of the roots reach the pavement and one touches the steps, mimicking the way that some trees survive on rocks or walls by rooting around them.
Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda: Labyrinths
“Labyrinths,” a multi-media installation by Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda, was created to raise awareness of the ways in which...
Uses of the Erotic: Sexuality and Difference in Lesbian Film and Video
This paper is an attempt to explore the ways in which the erotic, as a category and a practice of...