Interviews
Myriam Ben Salah: Missed Connections
Mahfuz Sultan and curator Myriam Ben Salah discuss Ben Salah’s curation of the 2020 Made in L.A. exhibition, and being nomads, refugees, or exiles.
Theaster Gates
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Theaster Gates in conversation with Hesse McGraw.
Nate Lewis: Latent Tapestries
Nate Lewis and Tash Nikol Smith discuss seeing the unseen, the transition from being a nurse to an artist, and the overlapping influences of diagnostics and art making.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: Truth Bias
Carrie Lambert-Beatty discusses her latest research by way of the value of investigation, epistemological behaviors, and fake news in an age of uncertainty.
Jesse Chun: Know What I Mean?
Cora Fisher and Jesse Chun discuss alienation and mistranslation as an active tool for poetics.
Cosmo Whyte: Mining the Body for Gold
TK Smith and Cosmo Whyte discuss colonial retentions, notions of home, and Whyte’s recent exhibition at MOCA GA.
Jessica Vaughn: In Polite English, One Disagrees By First Agreeing
Jessica Vaughn talks with Magdalyn Asimakis about disrupting systems within and beyond the art world.
Ricardo Dominguez: Charting Virtual and Real Borders
Electronic activism and performance art, and how artists might respond to the increasingly bordered conditions of our world.
James Allister Sprang: a breaking from, a breaking with, a breaking out
Asynchronies and breaks act simultaneously as points of racial reckoning and poetics.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie: Ancient & Unexpected Neighbors
The conversation touches on the evolutionary uses of creativity, raising problematic questions about why we are creative: is it only to get ahead and create more viable offspring, or is there something more?