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]
The exhibition ‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern charts the gloriously brazen, glitzy, and gender-bent life of the eponymous icon of the 80s London club scene…[read on]
My gateway into activist and artist Igor Grubić’s practice was equal parts jarring and cathartic. Croatian and Serbian voices shouting, gunfire and Missy Elliot’s 2001 hit…[read on]
Graffiti is an art form of the people. From the moment aluminum spray paint was patented in 1951 for use on steam radiators, the readymade canisters have been co-opted to create…[read on]
The Casino for Social Medicine is an experimental, collective and anticapitalist bar and café that recently opened its doors at Sonnenallee 100, in Berlin-Neukölln…[read on]
The building of all empires requires art and, much like the global franchise that is the Guggenheim, Refik Anadol’s generative AI artwork arrives alongside a new form of empire…[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]
Video art can be a tricky medium—it requires an attention span that isn’t always easy to access in art-viewing settings. So when I emerged from Mudam Luxembourg’s…[read on]
Miloš Trakilović’s solo exhibition, ‘Not a Love Song,’ currently on display at KW, explores the entanglement of sound, history and technology. The artist trained neural networks…[read on]
