Features
Wong Ping: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Urban life can be alienating; it limits our mobility and entraps us in fantasy. In Hong Kong, an artist’s erotic animations offer brief release.
The Patty Chang Landscape
“Mao Tse-tung once said that the south had a lot of water and it would be okay if the north borrowed a little.” An artist tracks wandering lakes through piss and tears, from Central Asia to Queens.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Flash animation to make a frenzied bid for utopia, sex, freedom, and jazz
Samson Young:
Songs For Disaster Relief
Do they know it’s Christmas? Yes, they do. Charity jingles chart the rise of neoliberalism at the Hong Kong pavilion in Venice.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
“Echo Profiles,” “ear witnesses,” and audio forensics inform the practice of an artist and “private eye” working at the intersection of sound and politics.
Luftmensch
The New York Public Library’s “Curator of Public Curiosity” on Werner Herzog, inherited trauma, and the art of the question.
The Octavia E. Butler Collection
An author’s annotations, motivations, and meditations, from the collection of The Huntington Library.
Men in High Castles
When adapting science fiction to the screen, where does the truth go?