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This Is America: A Drill at the Park Avenue Armory
Fawz Kabra questions the logics of institutional critique in Hito Steyerl’s Drill.
Convention Culture: New Orleans ’88
As summer steamed into oblivion it was tempting to say that nothing much was happening or had happened in the period before and after the Republican convention. Yet in its own way that media spectacle has by its sheer banal extravagance provided a kind of contextual frame around things, for matters both pointed and tangential.
Danger in the Liminal Spaces
Instead of pigments on canvas, the computer manipulates pixels in a monitor where the visible world is reduced to infinitely shifting variations on the screen.
A Brief History of Power
Contributing editor Stephanie Bailey traces the lines of electrification to political power via Chilean artist Iván Navarro and the 38th EVA International in Ireland.
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.”