Interview
Jes Fan: Infectious Materials, Molecular Memories
Karen Holmberg: Archaeology in an Emergency
In Part One of this two-part conversation, Will Corwin and Karen Holmberg discuss her fascination with volcanoes, her discovery of mysterious “spider vulva” petroglyphs, and consider whether these images can still speak to us.
Firelei Báez: The Poetics of Opacity
Cosmo Whyte and Firelei Báez discuss practices of coding, withholding, and “mixing the honey with the sting” in Báez’s symbolically layered works.
Monuments Under Occupation
Patricia Eunji Kim and Mashinka Firuntz Hakopian discuss monuments as physical evidence against cultural erasure, their role in preserving indigenous Armenian histories, and augmented reality as a site for activism and memorialization.
Claudia Peña Salinas: Seeing Sites Without Sightseeing
Claudia Peña Salinas takes stock of how some of the most visited archeological and spiritual sites in Mexico endure tourism for generations, yet still provide eternal inspiration.
Philip Glass: Frontiers of the Acceptable
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Thomas Rain Crowe and Philip Glass talk boundaries, social change, and the “new” music of the 21st century.
Julie Mehretu: Emergent Propositions & Entropic Systems
Investigating power structures through abstraction, becoming a student of oneself, and entropic systems.
Carolyn Lazard: Living Here and Together
On the limitations of institutional critique, and the transformative beauty of disability justice frameworks.
Alex Chitty: Things in Motion
Originally trained as a biologist, Alex Chitty is attuned to—but ultimately rejects—the ways we attempt to organize experience.
nora chipaumire: Radical Space
New modalities of appearance and production for the Black body within performative spaces.