James McAnally writes an experimental elegy of alternative spaces that have closed or transitioned over the past year-plus.
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
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An essay on making work in the shadow of the Oakland Fire.
Renan Laru-an considers the artworld’s cynical consumption of the global periphery and the horizons of exchange between contexts.
Borrowing from ecological concepts may help us understand why the closing of one small art space in Seattle reaches far beyond itself and its region.
Julia Cole revisits the 2016 Common Field Convening and asks “How can we model an organization that reflects the future we wish to inhabit?”
Time starts at the bottom, pulling out moments that we ought not forget, placing together the building blocks of a..
How does a forum such as Common Field compromise its capacity to be a critical body by not insisting on holding the space for open-ended struggle?
Why is that dialogue lacking? Is it lacking, or is it relative? You can’t critique…when there are so few ways to hold space for those words.