Afterall Journal 46 Contents Foreword– Anca Rujoiu Contextual Essays Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Premises for Burmese Contemporary Art with Po Po, Tun Win Aung, Wah Nu and Min Thein Sung– Yin Ker Cultural Marxists Like Us– Sven Lütticken Beyond Essentialism: Contemporary Moana Art from Aotearoa New Zealand– Lana Lopesi […]
Afterall Journal 44 Contents Foreword– Candice Hopkins Contextual Essays The Delicate Difference Between ‘Thinking at the Edge of the World’– Carola Grahn Early Contemporary Art in Post-Soviet Mongolia: Where is the Green Horse Galloping Now?– Tsendpurev Tsegmid A Conversation between Manuel Borja-Villel and Marcelo Expósito– Manuel Borja-Villel & Marcelo Expósito Artists Qiu Zhijie The Lazy […]
Afterall Journal 45 Contents Foreword– Charles Esche Contextual Essays Thinking and Engaging with the Decolonial: A Conversation Between Walter D. Mignolo and Wanda Nanibush– Walter D. Mignolo & Wanda Nanibush The Art of Gentrification: The Lisbon Version– Ana Teixeira Pinto a year or more of darkness, a few hundred years without day– Alec Finlay Artists Britta Marakatt-Labba Britta […]
Yes, I’m still here. When he goes off, either on a trip or on a set of blogposts (and sometimes both at the same time, cf. Seeing Scores), I prefer to leave him to it. A librarian without a library (or in the case when he was in Dayton at that Bergamo Curriculum Theorizing conference, […]
Dear Laura, I know we don’t know each other and I appreciate that sending this open letter in the form of a blogpost may not be the best way to connect for the first time. However, let me try to explain why I wanted to contact you in this way today – October 11th, Indigenous […]
Footnote added June 9, 2024 In Ali Smith’s Companion Piece, which I mentioned in yesterday’s footnote to the post after following the link in the article ‘Companion, Peace’, from Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art?, edited by Sarah Travis, Azlan Guttenberg Smith, Catalina Hernández-Cabal, Jorge Lucero, a post-Minus Plato dialogue with Angela […]
Galanin is constantly shifting in modalities, mediums, and aesthetics, allowing the conceptual reality of a work to dictate its physical manifestation. In his 2017 work White Noise, American Prayer Rug, a monumentally sized textile, lying flat on a low plinth, appears to levitate. The imagery of the rug calls to mind “snow,” or the white […]
I appreciate that today of all days it may be hard to read the musings of a fictional ghost. Orange Shirt Day, otherwise known as Truth and Reconciliation Day, which this year has been elevated by the Canadian government from the level of an observed to a statutory holiday, is a day to educate and […]
