Spring 2022
Indicting the Poisonous Imaginary—Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal
In 2021 D’Souza and Staal came together to stage the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. Described as “a more-than-human tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes” committed by Unilever, ING, Airbus, and the Dutch state, the court drew from D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations.
What do we want from each other after we have told our stories
Jemma Desai’s essay “What do we want from each other after we have told our stories,” whispers abolition and points to the question: What if we say no?
Lean Into Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun
Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive
Khan—winner of the museum’s second annual UOVO prize, which is awarded to an emergent Brooklyn-based artist—moves through an array of media and materials, trying to capture the textured co-existence of multiple languages and influences.
Editors’ Dialogue: A Chorus of Positions With a Kinship of Aims
To reflect the collaborative nature of Gaming The System // Spring 2022, the usual editor’s letter takes the form of a colloquy.
Trojan Horses
Ge Yulu: Cutting In—Dances with the State and the Collective
Ge Yulu’s artistic practice playfully pulls at the strings of a social system that, although seemingly all-encompassing, is in fact a malleable structure consisting of individual human beings.