Collaborators since 2018, the artists Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo have worked together to bring numerous projects to life. Water is at the center of their recent work, ‘Tributaries: a Wet…[read on]
No swimming. Years, decades, centuries of industrial runoff, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, detergents, oil and sewage have turned Kent’s coastal areas into a place fit only for…[read on]
While ‘Water’ might just seem like a refreshing topic for summer, especially as we’re launching into Berlin’s first major heatwave of the year…[read on]
On a small, princess-pink television on the fifth floor of the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, an animated bear smokes a blunt as a spectral voice recounts a run-in with the police…[read on]
The judicial system is both intimidating and beguiling—a complex web of ritualized procedures enacted in hallowed, semi-public chambers, administered by (mostly) men …[read on]
In 2017, the government of New Zealand Aotearoa granted personhood to the Whanganui River, legislation that “combined Western legal precedent with Māori…[read on]
The 13th Berlin Biennale, which brings together over 60 artists and presents more than 170 works, will open on June 13th at four venues across the city—KW, Hamburger Bahnhof,…[read on]
Sable Elyse Smith’s works explore the strange dimensionalities created by the American legal system. The nature of contemporary carceral culture is totalizing…[read on]
The term “extralegality” gets at something beyond the legal-illegal binary: it suggests a work-around that questions the sharply, yet arbitrarily, delineated moral boundaries of the law…[read on]
The exhibition ‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern charts the gloriously brazen, glitzy, and gender-bent life of the eponymous icon of the 80s London club scene…[read on]
My gateway into activist and artist Igor Grubić’s practice was equal parts jarring and cathartic. Croatian and Serbian voices shouting, gunfire and Missy Elliot’s 2001 hit…[read on]
Graffiti is an art form of the people. From the moment aluminum spray paint was patented in 1951 for use on steam radiators, the readymade canisters have been co-opted to create…[read on]
