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Zina Saro-Wiwa
Poncili Creación Fights a More Beautiful Fight
Maxwell Paparella spends time with exuberant Puerto Rican performance collective Poncili Creación.
Order & Chaos
Sitting Beside Yvonne Rainer’s Convalescent Dance
Contextualizing Rainer’s “Convalescent Dance” (1967) alongside the spectacularization of disabled bodies during the Vietnam War, and framing convalescing as a radical act.
New Frontiers
Current developments in London highlight the politics of “Creative Quarters.”
Port Authorities
Mere mention of the word “airport” may trigger certain emotional responses. Some may not be positive. Airports are the unpleasant part of the journey, the necessary evil. But what if airports become the destination?
Gray Harbor
What such water goods reveal—only to persons close enough to smell the clinging dregs of seaweed or willing to caress the faux-leather handbag tucked into a cellophane sleeve—are the sentient negotiations of supple conquest.
Captives
I went back to Charleston, SC, for a wedding recently, and of all the port cities I have visited, lived in, or loved, Charleston is the worst.