“The Sense and Weight of a Haunting” By Joey Chin
What is the weight of a haunting? US-based Chinese artist, Sichong Xie’s multi-media multi-channel installation Do Donkeys Know Politics, Scaffold Series I made me ponder on that question. Is it empty and ghostly diaphanous? Or heavy in its occupation? Is a haunting based on a traumatic event in the past (…)
“Ghost in the Machine” by Marcus Civin
These days, we remake, reboot, or remix almost everything. “A remake renders the archival malleable,” the Los Angeles artist Matthew Lax wrote in 2021 for a journal called MARCH, arguing that remakes bring “another artifact or possibility into an established lineage.” Lax’s 2016 video Lil’ Tokyo Story opens up one of the final scenes from the 1953 film …
“I no longer love blue skies” by Antar Kuri Gomez
Nicholas Constant, in his series of photographs titled Predator/Protector—a group of landscape images, a couple of objects including a statue, and various buildings—quotes Zubair Rehman. A Pakistani 13-year-old boy (…)
“Imaginary Homelands : the artworks of Monica Rodriguez” by Marcelo Guimarães Lima
A text is first of all a visible object, whether in printed form or as the original preparatory manuscript, in whatever medium or format it is composed. The hand that writes, directly on paper or on a screen (…)
“Wake Up! Daria Pugachova’s Microcosmos” by Erin Gordon
In his famous 1972 single “Starman”, David Bowie-as-Ziggy Stardust encapsulates a familiar feeling of the unknown throughout its memorable chorus (…)
“The Corrupted Archive” Riya Raagini on Luca Spano
The internet often makes users out of us, out of minimalists, coders, artists, co-creators, and co-performers, the ends don’t meet as peculiarly as one thread hanging past neatly at (just) two points. (…)
“The future is not heavy/ the future can be soft” Evagoria Dapola on SABA
We live in the same time zone or almost the same time zone, and this is etched in our shared experience, raised in countries severely affected by the financial crisis. Being from Greece & Cyprus, (…)
“On Time, Art, and Entropy” Marcelo Guimarães Lima on Dimitris Theocharis
In the artwork titled “The analysis of reality produces reality” by Dimitris Theocharis, the surface of a potato is inscribed, incised with adjacent, ordered triangles in a kind of topological “mapping” of a natural object. (…)
“Internal Weather” Sara Kim on Elise Rasmussen
In the spring of 1815, the largest volcanic eruption ever recorded in human history took place on Mount Tambora, Indonesia. Particles and gasses were released into the atmosphere, and clouds reflected (…)
“Bureaucracies from Below” Isis Yépez on Eliza Evans
The installation All the Way to Hell by U.S. artist and researcher Eliza Evans consists of a series of well cores from the Permian Basin, the most active oil and gas field in the United States (…)
“In-between spaces and border identity” Ewelina Chwiejda on Carissa Samaniego
A shotgun, a picture of a carved boulder, a hanging log, and a stack of textiles. At first glance, the objects constituting Carissa Samaniego's installation "Riding the Fence, Pulling the Trigger" (…)