Reliable Display Copy Distribute: Elastic Maneuverings
Nihaal Faizal and Elaine W. Ho discuss their artist-run publishing strategies operating Reliable Copy in Bangalore, India and Display Distribute in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Virtual Eyes: Art Criticism in the Online Gallery
Anuradha Vikram reviews two of the best online exhibitions based in Los Angeles during the 2020 pandemic while assessing the limits and possibilities of this changed terrain.
From “Our House is on Fire” to Climate Justice Code Burnout
Valentina Vella reports back from Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons’ second annual assembly “Our House is On Fire” (2019) and Climate Justice Code work ahead of their third assembly “We Owe Each Other Everything” that will take a new format online December 11-12, 2020.
Works Fall: On Ryts Monet and Ruins
“Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.” – Mark Fisher
Internesia: The Techno-Persuasion To Forget
Do you remember whilst-browsing what the internal voice said just moments ago? It spoke to you via that webpage. It transmitted information.
Killing the Dominant Narrative: Geopolitics and Training for the Future
Training for the Future was an initiative developed by Studio Jonas Staal in conjunction with the 2019 Ruhr Triennale curated by Florian Malzacher.
The Work after Our Rage
“This protest phase will need to increase its durability to make the kinds of cultural and social transformations needed. It has to grow into a bigger second phase; one that’s focused on the many arrangements of American life that produce black death.” – Design Studio for Social Intervention
Let’s Not Be Afraid of Each Other
Umi Hsu and Theodore (ted) Kerr share their thoughts about the recently published zine “What Does a Covid-19 Doula Do?” within the larger context of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and resurgence of powerful Black Lives Matter activism sweeping the world.
The Theft of Time
In this essay written during the first months of the pandemic lockdown, Aaron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas consider the infinite potential of rest in relation to capitalism’s extraction of value from labor.
