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Mitch Speed

Mitch Speed is based in 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• 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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Reviews• May 12, 2016

The “Fuck Em” Sex and Class Reversals of Alicia Gibson

By Mitch Speed

A blind date is unfolding at Canada Gallery, in Alicia Gibson’s painting My Mom Set Me Up With a Redneck (2016). If, like me,…

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Reviews• April 13, 2016

“As a Relief from Language”: Hilton Als, as Artist

By Mitch Speed

To read White Girls, Hilton Als’s 2013 collection of upending essays, is to feel calcified assumptions about sexual and racial identification dissolve. A chain of…

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Features• March 4, 2016

Does the Right Hand Cover for the Left?: The Case of the Remai Modern and Its Errant Board

By Mitch Speed

I take no pleasure in realizing the unpleasant aspects of something I’d otherwise be very proud of. In this case, the object of pride…

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Reviews• July 20, 2015

Mary Heilmann and David Reed’s “Two By Two” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Floats Towards Americana

By Mitch Speed

Once a train station, Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum now facilitates transportive experiences. There in a large hall, forty-five paintings currently hang in pairs, one…

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Reviews• March 3, 2015

The Deadening Gaze of Tal R

By Mitch Speed

Most things, if and when they return from the dead, are dried-out and stiff. However when several outmoded artistic styles turn up in the…

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