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Against morality
Rosanna McLaughlin investigates the consequences of this moralizing approach to creative work. She invites us to rethink the connection between political values and art—and to ask whether a relationship between them should exist at all.
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Queer formalism: the return
Queer Formalism: The Return is a new kind of queer art writing that considers love and regret in their many forms.
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Perpetual slavery
This essay investigates the relationship of art to freedom in two bodies of work by contemporary artists working in the United States, Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon.
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Art was never there
Mitch Speed asks whether contemporary art is doomed to become an obsolete curiosity, or if it can act as a site of resistance against an algorithmically driven culture industry.
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The darkest corners
The Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition.
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On gender performance
Brice Dellsperger highlights how he, starting from travesty and doubles, undermines existing identity systems in order to develop new artistic strategies for subjectivity.
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Prunella clough
Exhibition catalogue with twenty color illustrations of paintings by the British painter Prunella Clough (1919–1999). Includes works from 1960–1993.
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Catherine biocca
An accompaniment to artist Catherine Biocca's exhibition Bonsai Feeling at the Kunstverein Nürnberg.
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Doing time
Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael.
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After institutions
After Institutions expands upon an Institutional Critique to look beyond what cultural institutions were to what they are and what they might become.
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Imperfect solidarities
Aruna D’Souza draws from current events and contemporary art to suggest that a feeling of understanding or closeness based on emotional attachment fails to generate solidarity.
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A queer theory of the state
In A Queer Theory of the State, Samuel Clowes Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.
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Remember the details
Skye Arundhati Thomas reflects on the Indian protest movement that began in mid-2019 against xenophobic and casteist citizenship laws.
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Raphaela vogel
In this conversation, Rafael and Vogel contemplate the potential of putting artistic mediums in dialogue with one another, proffering a new vision of what form can achieve.
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Fables and forensics
Emily Watlington, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.
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Notes on evil
Artist and writer Steven Warwick offers a series of notes on the overlapping social architectures that frame our current discourse on good and evil, seeking to chart a path beyond our collective impasse.
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Platz, platz
Writers Barbara Casavecchia, Elisa R. Linn, and Vivien Trommer offer critical contributions on the work of Australian-born artist Andy Boot.
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Passing images
Marie France Rafael provides an attempt to write with art, and retraces its living spirit and procedural-performative experience in her writing.
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Shows, signals, unvernehmen
Shows, Signals, Unvernehmen brings together fifteen years of art critic, curator, and artist Christian Egger’s writings, from 2005 to 2020.
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Wasserklops
Artist's book with twenty-one color illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse's paintings, as well as several drawings.
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An occasion to consider a book
An Occasion to Consider a Book is an invitation to reflect on how a book might be performed in the world.
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On discourse and the curatorial
In On Discourse and the Curatorial, Mick Wilson draws out the link between the imperative to generate discourse and the imperative to civilize that emerge in the genealogy of the salon, the exhibition complex, and the museum.
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