Features
Binge Watch—On Performances of Excessive Eating
“The act of binging is one of abjection. It demonstrates the power of something inanimate, or no longer animate, over human beings—in this case, food. The abject manifests viscerally as squirming, belching, or vomiting. Such images threaten the common belief that eating is pleasurable, a notion that begins in infancy.”
Gone But Not Disrespected
On the last Sunday in June 2022, a particularly hot day in Philadelphia, about 100 of us gathered in front of Saint Luke’s landing for the culmination of an experimental AIDS memorial called Gone and for Ever, a community-informed spectacle of sight, sound, and grief—part of Remembrance, a project of the William Way LGBT Community Center and funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage—to grapple with the question of how to memorialize amid the ongoing crisis.
Office Landscaping—A Genealogy of Corporate Critique
Ultimately, corporate critique has a genealogy, one that is cyclical and resilient, and that allows artists to engage aesthetics of control, desire, and regulation which corporate capitalist structures aim to produce.
Roberto Visani and The Promise
Living Worth Repeating—
On the Xenogenesis of the Otolith Group
Refusing the Here—Now: An Afrofuturist Period Room and Black Fugitivity in the Undercommons
By mixing the historical and the contemporary, the analogue and the digital, the obsolete and the futuristic, the concrete and the speculative, the installation proposes a malleable reality, an undercommons existing not in the here-now but for, and toward, the future.
Broken Hum(or)
Dinah Ryan explores the functions and possibilities of humor and its intersections with power, pain, vulnerability, and humanity.
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’?”
and we were dancing
Remote Access parties and Levani’s 127.1 BPM represent new, expansive ideas of the commons where queer, trans, immigrant, and disabled communities have gathered, and will gather, transgressively.
For the Reasons of Poetry: Arting in Space
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Robert Horvitz explores NASA’s Get-Away Special program, and how artists such as Lowry Burgess and Joseph McShane used the program for early experiments with artworks in space.