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Dreaming Outside the Law: ‘Magical Realism’ at WIELS
by Chris Erik Thomas // June 24, 2025
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]
Material Witnessing: An Interview with Susan Schuppli
by Dagmara Genda // June 10, 2025
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]
Conditions for Living: Gala Porras-Kim’s Exhibition-in-Print
by Jayne Wilkinson // June 3, 2025
In 2017, the government of New Zealand Aotearoa granted personhood to the Whanganui River, legislation that “combined Western legal precedent with Māori…[read on]
Restorative Laughter: An Interview with Zasha Colah
by Alison Hugill // May 23, 2025
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]
The Carceral Sublime: An Interview with Sable Elyse Smith
by William Kherbek // May 16, 2025
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]
Letter from the Editor: Legality
by Alison Hugill // May 9, 2025
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]
