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On discourse and the curatorial
Mick Wilson,In On Discourse and the Curatorial, Mick Wilson draws out the link between the imperative to generate discourse and the imperative to civilize that emerge in the genealogy of the salon, the exhibition complex, and the museum.
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Art was never there
Mitch Speed,Mitch Speed asks whether contemporary art is doomed to become an obsolete curiosity, or if it can act as a site of resistance against an algorithmically driven culture industry.
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Skye Arundhati Thomas,Skye Arundhati Thomas reflects on the Indian protest movement that began in mid-2019 against xenophobic and casteist citizenship laws.
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Against morality
Rosanna McLaughlin,Rosanna McLaughlin investigates the consequences of this moralizing approach to creative work. She invites us to rethink the connection between political values and art—and to ask whether a relationship between them should exist at all.
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Perpetual slavery
Ciarán Finlayson,This essay investigates the relationship of art to freedom in two bodies of work by contemporary artists working in the United States, Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon.
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Notes on evil
Steven Warwick,Artist and writer Steven Warwick offers a series of notes on the overlapping social architectures that frame our current discourse on good and evil, seeking to chart a path beyond our collective impasse.
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The darkest corners
Lena Marie Emrich, Marlene A. Schenk, Aaron Bogart,The Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition.
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After institutions
Karen Archey,After Institutions expands upon an Institutional Critique to look beyond what cultural institutions were to what they are and what they might become.
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Imperfect solidarities
Aruna D'Souza,Aruna D’Souza draws from current events and contemporary art to suggest that a feeling of understanding or closeness based on emotional attachment fails to generate solidarity.
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Doing time
Kristian Vistrup Madsen,Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael.
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Queer formalism: the return
William J. Simmons,Queer Formalism: The Return is a new kind of queer art writing that considers love and regret in their many forms.
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Raphaela vogel
Marie-France Rafael, Raphaela Vogel,In this conversation, Rafael and Vogel contemplate the potential of putting artistic mediums in dialogue with one another, proffering a new vision of what form can achieve.
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An occasion to consider a book
Isabel Lewis, Aaron Bogart,An Occasion to Consider a Book is an invitation to reflect on how a book might be performed in the world.
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A queer theory of the state
Samuel Clowes Huneke,In A Queer Theory of the State, Samuel Clowes Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.
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Fables and forensics
Emily Watlington,Emily Watlington, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.
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