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Mitch Speed

Mitch Speed is Momus's contributing editor, Berlin. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Camera Austria, Turps, and Canadian Art. Speed has an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University, in Vancouver. While at Rutgers, he was a part-time lecturer at the undergraduate level, and founder of a reading group called The Obsolete Juror, focusing on the relationship between contemporary art and writing. From 2011 until 2014, he was founder and co-editor of Setup, a journal of contemporary art and writing published by Publication Studio.

Reviews• December 13, 2016

Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries

By Mitch Speed

“It’s in hell where solidarity is important, not in heaven.” –  John Berger, Seasons in Quincy Media veracity, it seems clear, has dissolved into…

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Reviews• November 15, 2016

Romancing the Stone: Three Berlin Exhibitions Commune with the Ancients

By Mitch Speed

The past vexes us. Longing to feel connected to it, those with money tour the world’s ancient ruins searching antediluvian kin. Meanwhile in Eurocentric contemporary…

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Reviews• October 18, 2016

The Past Imperfect of Jutta Koether

By Mitch Speed

For many years, Jutta Koether drained blood and love from the color red. In her paintings, that untouchable hue became atmosphere for a genus…

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Features• September 29, 2016

The Ellipses of Eva Hesse: Reading Her Collected Diaries

By Mitch Speed

Eva Hesse’s collected diaries begin at the end. In the book’s last sentence, editor Barry Rosen thanks Hesse’s friend Gioia Timpanelli for discovering the…

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Reviews• September 13, 2016

Simone Leigh’s Powerful Meditation on Race and Healthcare Suffers, Ironically, from Lack of Access

By Mitch Speed

Within intimate relationships, symptoms of passive aggression range from mild irritation to buckling torpor. When the relationship is between entire populations and corrupted institutions,…

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Reviews• August 10, 2016

Dumb Material and Animate Belief: Sadie Benning Plays (with) God

By Mitch Speed

Occasionally, a show hits the sweet spot so squarely, that critical faculties seem to evaporate on the tip of one’s tongue. In the case…

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Reviews• August 3, 2016

The Renewed Focus and Acrid Targeting of Rachel Harrison at MoMA and Greene Naftali

By Mitch Speed

Rachel Harrison’s acidic colors, faux-finish surfaces, and otherwise unseemly media screech like saboteurs of good taste. Unlike a certain nascent presidential candidate, however, they…

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Reviews• July 25, 2016

Wresting the Work of Straub and Huillet from the Annals of Academia and Art History

By Mitch Speed

How much homework should we expect to slog through, en route to art? One could surmise “A lot,” according to Jean Marie Straub and…

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Reviews• June 28, 2016

Emerging Artist Neil Beloufa Turns Smug at MoMA

By Mitch Speed

As subject matter, the debased utopia is low-hanging fruit. Every continent has a few, and they emanate intoxicating aromas of corrupted idealism. In making…

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Reviews• June 3, 2016

The Unspecific (But Straining) Politics of Joan Jonas

By Mitch Speed

Long an idiosyncratic priestess of the limbo between myth and art, Joan Jonas has moved into pagan revivalism. They Come to Us Without a…

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