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Greg Ito: Looking Back to Let Go
This is probably the most personal show I’ve made. I want people to know that the work is connected to these real experiences, so there’s pretty intimate stuff that’s only been seen within our family circle .… I had to ask my mom if it was okay to share these photographs. Since we weren’t able to get permission from relatives who have passed to share these things, all the faces are going to be covered with small white stickers. That way we can keep our family identities private and off the internet. These stickers also create a pathway for viewers to insert themselves into [my family’s] experience.
What do we want from each other after we have told our stories
Jemma Desai’s essay “What do we want from each other after we have told our stories,” whispers abolition and points to the question: What if we say no?
Lean Into Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun
Editors’ Dialogue: A Chorus of Positions With a Kinship of Aims
To reflect the collaborative nature of Gaming The System // Spring 2022, the usual editor’s letter takes the form of a colloquy.
Trojan Horses
Ge Yulu: Cutting In—Dances with the State and the Collective
Ge Yulu’s artistic practice playfully pulls at the strings of a social system that, although seemingly all-encompassing, is in fact a malleable structure consisting of individual human beings.
Against Confinement—On Mohamed Bourouissa’s Frames of Relation
In this expansive appraisal of the artist’s work, Bailey makes a case for the emancipatory power of images.
Doireann O’Malley: Floating Worlds Apart
Lydia Horne interviews Doireann O’Malley about getting lost, the building of virtual spaces, and presenting us with a post-human reality in their recent work, New Maps of Hyperspace_Test_01.