As Flight or Escape: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
Ralph Lemon has described choreography as “a daily event appropriate to uncontrolled circumstances.” If the traditional role of the choreographer is to determine the…
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A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley
The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a mall….
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Lineage and Light: Rose Marie Cromwell’s “A Geological Survey”
In what ways is a mother like a tree? A mother—a caregiver, really, because lineages are built not merely by blood and biology but…
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On Weather and the Archive: Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Tony Cruz Pabón
For five months I lived with open windows in a suburb of San Juan, air ventilating through my apartment on days of both intense…
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Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard
Maintenance I: Role Change, 1970 I give myself a haircut using the video system as a mirror. It is completely private, no one in…
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Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto
What was the problem? I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? Yes, I did know…
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When Women Run the World: Gail Thacker’s Queer Feminist Marvel
In late June 2024, a couple of weeks before Joe Biden withdrew his bid for reelection and Kamala Harris launched her campaign for president,…
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“You Took, Took, Took”: Alanis Obomsawin’s Work is Never Finished
In 1969, the young Abenaki singer and activist Alanis Obomsawin, newly hired as a consultant at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), took…
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The Wish in Yong Soon Min’s KISSSSS
“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss…
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Prescient About Still-Active Threats, Marisol Is Right on Time
Near the end of the definitive, long-overdue survey of the artist Marisol at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, after a parade of totemic sculptural…
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