Back in the mid-2000s, when most of my friends and I were in that strange post-college limbo that results from..
New World Embassy: Rojava
The Work of the Institution in an Age of Professionalization
Slow Criticism: Art in the Age of Post-Judgement
Movement Building for Beginners
Belaboring the Fringe: in lieu of an Artist Statement
Sustainability is not Solidarity: Superscript & the Economies of Art Writing
Muse as Critic, Returning the Gaze from the Pedestal
No one cares about art criticism: Advocating for an embodiment of the avant garde as an alternative to capitalism
Essays
Articles
A Short Meditation on How Time Vacillates and Collapses, from Silk Roads and Passports to Cointelpro to Oliver North’s New NRA to ICE. Presented in response to “Genghis Khan: The Exhibition” at the Ronald Reagan Library that was on view February 16th through August 19, 2018.
In this essay, Brian Droitcour poses a set of questions and propositions for how institutional voices may be reoriented towards more accessible and communal forms.
Ana Tuazon engages Adrian Piper’s unique and revelatory exhibition, A Synthesis of Intuitions, and how her practice of ‘meta-art’ anticipated socially engaged and critical practices especially relevant at present.
Renan Laru-an observes the ruptures possible in “bad criticism” to allow more tongues to speak.
Former director Christopher Lynn surveys iconic Cleveland alternative space, SPACES, from its experimental roots through its more formal formations at its fortieth anniversary.
Considering what power does to ‘reality’, this three-part text aims to consider instituent practices by artists and organisations as they seek not to just represent the real, but actively to (re)make it.
Considering what power does to ‘reality’, this three-part text aims to consider instituent practices by artists and organisations as they seek not to just represent the real, but actively to (re)make it.