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]
Samra Mayanja is a performance artist, poet and curator responsible for the project space The Call Centre in Hackney Wick, London. Mayanja’s performances…[read on]
At some point or another, an exhibition text is likely to refer to the public—the audience, the visitor, the viewer. This amorphous category is given a lot of weight and critical responsibility…[read on]
Shu Lea Cheang is a ground-breaking Taiwanese artist whose works have long considered the cycles of growth and decay in rural, urban and digital environments, as well as the ways in…[read on]
In thinking about what makes something—or someone—alien, the question of perspective is central. The differentiation between “native” and “alien” ultimately concerns the side…[read on]
Donald Trump was elected President of the United States (again) this week. Throughout his campaign, he’s been threatening mass deportations, to be enacted under the ‘Alien Enemies Act…[read on]
melanie bonajo is an artist and somatic practitioner whose works have incorporated a wide range of aesthetic and social discourses. bonajo, alongside with Yanna Rüger and Daniel Cremer…[read on]
The question of “access” is a far-reaching one—it can be as simple as the architecture of an entry-way or as complex as the many invisible barriers put in place to reinforce institutional…[read on]
Sofía Salazar Rosales’ recent exhibition at ChertLüdde ‘The desire to dance with someone who is not there,’ explored the ways in which presence and absence fuel desire…[read on]
Followers of French psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan insist that desire cannot be satisfied, as its object is always beyond reach; desire is a means without end…[read on]
“Desire is a disaster,” Frieda Toranzo Jaeger states in her interview with Jessie Robinson, the curator of the exhibition ‘A future in the light of darkness’ at Modern Art Oxford…[read on]
