Burning Landscape II, 2019 Burning Landscape III, 2019 Burning Landscape VI, 2019 Drawing inspiration from the poem “Incendio” by Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the massive tapestries depict burning landscapes releasing heavy smoke. But what is the smoke signal about? Using a technique called “steganography” commonly employed by hackers and activists to […]
Links: NOTES: Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016) by Candice Hopkins https://www.documenta14.de/en/notes-and-works/1053/elegy-for-annie-pootoogook-1969-2016- Links: ARTISTS: Sanja Iveković https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13552/sanja-ivekovic SOUTH Issue #9 (documenta 14 #4): Lost and Found by Susan Hiller https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/25219_lost_and_found CALENDAR: The Society of Friends of Halit: An homage to Pavlos Fyssas https://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/25022/an-homage-to-pavlos-fyssas Links: PUBLIC EDUCATION: Interview with Narimane Mari https://www.documenta14.de/en/public-education/25831/interview-with-narimane-mari VENUES: Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality […]
But, I hear you ask, what’s the point of irritating your listeners’ tender ears with a biting truth? You should take care that the hallways of the grand old institutions and their oh so distinguished executive directors don’t freeze you out and they will if you keep barking at their hypocrisy on the radio. Better […]
After some delay, what says the public? It’s Joe’s time! So now, at long last, the smooth transition of a backwards flow towards normalcy softens the bite of an increasing viral death toll, trimming the long nails of Trumpism…for now. But in the meantime, what can art do for US? Either draw a line in […]
In a piece she titled Anima, or Soul, which she executed in Oaxaca in 1976, she appropriated the Mexican tradition of fireworks displays by having a bamboo armature made in the shape of her own body, attaching small fireworks to it, and setting them ablaze (pl. 18). As is common in her other works, this […]
Hey you, yes you, in your BBQ/BEER/FREEDOM shirt, with your mask under your mouth, screaming at the world from my Twitter feed, I have created you to object to whatever is happening here at an unfinished exhibition. If everything turns out well (Hope is the Rarest Bird). Still if everything does turn out well, if […]
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. We write incarcerated by the myth of individual authorship. Whether poetry or prose (or whatever this is) I blow out hard from these puffed-up lungs. […]
O the virtue of ignorance! So much nothing in this Doom life! Here’s the thing: who’s going to read this? Ask anyone but me. By Hercules, no one, not one person, no single body. Either sing a duet or be dumb in silence. Nothing between. “How deplorable to be deploring of art!” (There’s no basket […]
One should never erect from a plane or from a drawing; on the contrary, the authentic path is to create infinite possible projections in space – daughters, not mothers. The wind is a space covered with times and aromas. The ocean wanted to be a cloud, because I was sad I was witness White heart […]
Walking around Washington Square Park, I sometimes think I see Ana [Mendieta] running, circling the park as she used to. We would wave to one another and continue on our individual routines. – April 1992