Features
Sheila Pree Bright’s Suburbia: Where Nothing Is Ever Wanting
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS July/August 2007, Vol 31, issue 4. For the past two years, Sheila...
Dark Study: on Emily Jacir, Forensic Architecture, and fugitive documentary
Fugitivity, as it relates to Black study, has been a mode of contesting misrecognition through a lens of narrative darkness....
Jen Everett: Kinship, Interiority & the Black Femme Gaze
Outside Jen Everett’s studio, balmy air collects against warm St. Louis bricks, but my summer sweat is instantly soothed as...
Spiritual Migrations
This interview was originally published in ART PAPERS November/December 2000, Vol. 24, issue 6 After a number of years spent...
Africatown
My first visit to Africatown was by way of US Highway 90 and the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge, which spans the Mobile...
A Site of Evanescence
How do you perform with an endangered fish? By becoming imperceptible. How do you become imperceptible? By finding the point...
A Ceramic Materials Atlas
Organizing these materials in our studio is the outermost tip of a complex global distribution network of intricate webs of highways, shipping routes, rail lines, and flight paths—a planetary vascular system and neural network, a pulsing flow of matter and information covering the surface of the earth.
How To Make an Old World New?
Notes on the Whales in the Room
Entwined with the whaling industry, then, which peaked in the mid-19th century, was the violence of a colonial modernity that rendered the world open for the taking.
Imagination Dead Imagine
Without a Future, We Can Be Forever
Some Notes on Alternative Arts Publications: The Alternatives’ Dance for Money or Walking on a Tightrope
This feature was originally reprinted in ART PAPERS July/August 1991, Vol. 15, issue 4. When I initially began writing this...