Stephanie Bailey
What Makes Another World Possible?
An exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall houses a number of artists curated by Corina L. Apostol that explore various aspects of socially engaged artworks.
War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Justice Truths and Rights
War Inna Babylon is not an exhibition; it is an everyday lived reality. Although we’ve exhibited some of the experience, I want people to feel it, feel like they have to do something, and [then] ask what we do next. To understand that you can’t sit on the fence, because if you do, you are supporting the status quo.
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.
Greg Ito: Looking Back to Let Go
This is probably the most personal show I’ve made. I want people to know that the work is connected to these real experiences, so there’s pretty intimate stuff that’s only been seen within our family circle .… I had to ask my mom if it was okay to share these photographs. Since we weren’t able to get permission from relatives who have passed to share these things, all the faces are going to be covered with small white stickers. That way we can keep our family identities private and off the internet. These stickers also create a pathway for viewers to insert themselves into [my family’s] experience.
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.
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.
Against Confinement—On Mohamed Bourouissa’s Frames of Relation
In this expansive appraisal of the artist’s work, Bailey makes a case for the emancipatory power of images.
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.
The Universe Flickers
“How do you create a record or generate matter in transitory times when the very limits of language, registers, and representation of truth are severely tested?”
Flow Through: Bahar Yürükoğlu
Processing the politics of “a timeless, borderless place,” an artist proposes a new mythology.