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Berenice Olmedo—Radical Alterity and the Crip/Disabled Subject
Utilizing sculptural, performance, and social practice modes, Olmedo’s work circumvents the representational trap that is part and parcel of a reduced, oppositional framing of normative and non-normative, or able and disabled.
Locus Hour
In Thill’s work, spirituality and hope coexist in tension with the banal materials of daily life, presenting an idea of transcendence that must pass through and engage with the grit of existence.
I Will Not Be Purified
Anyone who has ever been life-threateningly ill will know the desperation it breeds. You’ll try anything. You’ll do anything. And when treatments fail, and doctors—shockingly unskilled in empathy—shrug and suggest this means you will die, you start looking anywhere for help.
The Athens Dialogues: Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Bleeding Out: On the Use of Blood in Contemporary Art
Blood corrupts conventions of purity and privacy to suggest all elements of the body can be used for expression.
Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête
Mark Thomas Gibson: Chaos Is The Season
Will Corwin interviews Mark Thomas Gibson about Honoré Daumier’s influence on Gibson’s works of political satire, keeping momentum after a political win, and the challenges of building upon a broken foundation.