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End of Year Letter: 2024 -> 2025
‘Tis the season for taking stock of what we’ve accomplished in 2024, and for looking forward to what the future holds. On behalf of everyone at Art Papers, I want to thank the individuals and foundations who rallied to support our mission this past year.
ECHOES Episode 1
Interpreting Site
Site is a compulsion of the mind at work in the body.
Reworlding
What separates us, the living, from our recent ancestors, is that we have inadvertently become not just people of the planet, but planetary people. And as planetary folk, we’re the generational interlocutors of interlocking, simultaneous and earth-scaled challenges—something called the polycrisis.
On Biodiversity—Timur Si-Qin and Haley Mellin in Conversation
I think that you and I both approach the natural world similarly with our work. In a meditative and devotional way, in which we try to look deeper and deeper into the visuality and details of nature.
A Letter to Our Readers
We are launching a three-year strategic plan designed to celebrate the legacy of Art Papers, to mobilize the organization’s resources in service to the cultural community, and to thoughtfully arrive at meaningful and controlled conclusion of operations in 2026, at 50 years.
Nope—A Certain Tendency of the Immaterial
Simone Leigh: Sovereignty
“The work is a gateway, one that bridges extracted projections of African aesthetic realities by refocusing upon the origins of Black exterior expression. Those spaces—just like bodies—hold stories, memories, and dreams. The transformation of this pavilion foreshadowed how this experience would find me in a house of discourses. But this time, there could be a more nuanced conversation about the interiority of Black female consciousness.”
Insurrectional Evolution: The Cronenbergian Revisited
Film critic Nathan Lee explores the insurrectional body in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” and asks “What do we mean when we speak of the ‘Cronenbergian’?”