The Weight of Enduring: Miles Greenberg’s Sanguine Devotion
Weeks before the new year, the artist Miles Greenberg staged a seven-hour performance that saw him standing semi-nude, wearing what looked to be a…
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“But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital
We were reprimanded before the meeting even began. The guard, a tough looking woman employed at the Lisbon Tropical Botanical Garden, told us that…
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What to Do About Klaus: How Arts Communities Assert Their Agency
As first impressions go, it wasn’t ideal. On the week he was announced as MOCA Los Angeles’s new director, Klaus Biesenbach managed to alienate…
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Performance Art in a Precarious Time: A Conversation with Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados
In movement study of a standard North American strip-search procedure, Francisco-Fernando Granados gambols through a codified gestural sequence: “empty pockets … remove clothing ……
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Towards the Quiet, or with Larger Amplifiers: An Interview with Berlin Performance Artist Aleks Slota
Nothing about Aleks Slota’s elfin appearance prepares you for his performances. Small-framed and wiry, his body hardly looks bullish enough for acts of endurance…
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Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art
Corazon del Sol had just arrived in Lisbon, to an apartment she left in the early 2010s, not long after losing someone close. She…
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Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating
Dear Dick, I’m wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the ‘70s has been read only as “collaboration” and “feminist.” The…
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Aiming to Please: Division Gallery Surveys Post-Internet Entertainment
In the year 2000, curator Phillippe Vergne staged an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis titled Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures. It…
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