Deciphering testimonials of violence from Guantánamo Bay
Category: Texts + Documents
The Art of the Apology: Apathy, Accountability, and the Politics of Redress
Artist Chris Bose underscores the impacts of Canadian settler-colonialism, both past and present
Rosa enferma, Together Apart
Kaira M. Cabañas considers our vulnerable yet resilient social relations in a time of pandemic, through the lens of a work by Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón
More Than 100 Stories: Sharing Learning through Creative Evaluation
What happens when an arts bureaucracy steps away from “data-driven” evaluation of its program? Writer Sarah Butler recounts her collaboration with visual artist Nicole Mollett on a unique commission from Arts Council England
Sky Couture: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s BROKER and the Politics of Luxury
David Markus investigates a video work set in a Trump-branded condo and analyzes superluxury living in relation to material culture, consumer desires, and the political inclinations they index
Beyond Survival: Concluding Remarks
Sarah Kanouse brings to a close the Beyond Survival series, which probes the effects of sustained precarity, a diminished funding landscape in the arts, and institutional relations to socio-ecological urgencies
Speculative Futures: Experimental Radical Projects and the Undercommons of Funding
Using Axis Lab—the Chicago-based interdisciplinary arts organization she helped found—as a case study, Patricia Nguyen explores the intricacies of funding and establishing networks of community support
The Cost of Precarity: Contingent Academic Labor in the Gig Economy
Kristen Galvin and Christina M. Spiker discuss the adjunctification of the academy and what has been sacrificed by this new paradigm of the gig economy
Take This Hammer (After Leadbelly): Extended Version
Margo Handwerker and Richard Saxton of the collective M12 Studio offer observations and critiques of the process of applying for and reporting on grants in the United States
Beyond Survival in Art and Art History: Fifteen Futures Already Alive
Amy K. Hamlin offers fifteen propositions for “thinking otherwise”—a text that serves as a kind of imaginary syllabus asking what the future of art history might look like
The Buddhist Resistance of Zhang Huan’s Pagoda
In a new essay, Winston Kyan considers the extensive body of work of artist Zhang Huan within the histories of Chinese Buddhism, the American art market, durational performance work, and “existence as suffering”
In the Free Field: Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III and Anechoic Histories
Walker Downey explores sound—and the various societal, artistic, and militaristic attempts to eliminate it—through the work of Doug Wheeler, in particular his 2017 exhibition PSAD Synthetic Desert III at the Guggenheim Museum