Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of Endings
In the fall of 2023, when I came to New York on a research fellowship, I visited Levani’s studio for the second time. Levani,…
Read MoreIn the fall of 2023, when I came to New York on a research fellowship, I visited Levani’s studio for the second time. Levani,…
Read MoreSatisfaction (2000) by the artist Alexis Smith is a collage that features a shabby reproduction of Hokusai’s The Great Wave placed within a glitzy…
Read MoreI was once teleported to Chapada dos Veadeiros (Plateau of the Deer Protectors) National Park in the southwestern region of the state of Goiás…
Read MoreWhat is the visuality of abortion care? Though I am writing this text for a publication based in Los Angeles—once my home for many…
Read MoreOn August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.”…
Read MoreWhat does an art practice that contends with feminism look like? In what ways can such a practice foreclose a confrontation with the complexities…
Read MoreA pale woman clutches a dead fox to her bosom, her hold on its lifeless pelt somewhere between a cuddle and a throttle. Her…
Read MoreFree from an autobiographical or narrative format that would encourage an epic spun out from a punctum, Christina Sharpe’s newest book, Ordinary Notes, casts…
Read MoreA few years ago, I saw the same graffiti tag in Berlin and later in Athens: “Take acid, buy crypto,” it read, as if…
Read MoreAn eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s…
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