Summer 2020
Chang Yuchen: Language, Use, Value
Traveling from China to the US in early 2020, the strangely fragmented temporality of solitude, and feeling useless.
Living and Working in Other Worlds
Tal Beery calls for making new worlds from the deconstructed raw material of our most stolid and faltering institutions.
Telling Stories About Ourselves: Zia Anger’s Radical Mythmaking
Fusebox Festival 2020: “Living” Roots in the Virtual
FOCUS GROUP II: PARATEXT
The awkwardness and luxury of an online video exhibition.
Carolyn Lazard: Living Here and Together
On the limitations of institutional critique, and the transformative beauty of disability justice frameworks.
Lilly McElroy: Absurdity Is a Protest
Wrestling with light and absurdity in a world transformed by a global virus.
Bodies / Antibodies
Miriam Simun’s text-and-image artist project meanders through the first month or so of quarantine, exploring the porousness of the body—the touching/not touching—and offers a kind of choreography of permeability.
Szu-Han Ho: COVID–19, the #PPE we all need
Emerging from simultaneous impulses toward despair and hope, Szu-Han Ho shares her thoughts about making, activism, immigration, and ecology.