Wisława Szymborska Forugh Farrokhzad I am you, you and the one who loves and the one who suddenly finds a vague connection within herself with thousands of unknown, unfamiliar things. – Forough Farrokhzad ‘Sin’, from ‘Forough Farrokhzad: Poet of Modern Iran’ (I.B. Tauris: London, 2010), p. 17. Cecilia Vicuña A sound birthing its own death. – […]
Lisa Robertson This is a history of sincerity. The tree uses silence. – Lisa Robertson, ‘R’s Boat’, (University of California Press: Berkeley, 2010), p.55. Cecilia Vicuña It’s difficult to understand to what degree miniscule species have survived in the leaves of books and even to imagine a reader for each of these books is absolute […]
Brandon Shimoda When someone breaks down Everyone leans into someone breaking down And touches that one It can go on – Brandon Shimoda ‘The Desert’ (The Song Cave: New York, 2018), p. 129. Bhanu Kapil What did Ban do that outweighed art? What kind of art did she produce? Returning to the U.S., I lay […]
The Rojo is a red bookshelf in the living room of the rented house where my librarian lives with his partner and their son. At the start of every day, during the period of this project (which now does by the name The Library of Our Future: A Ghost’s Story – note the shift to […]
Afterall Journal 43 Contents Foreword– Charles Stankievech Contextual Essays Dedicated to the Anishnawbekwe– Lee Maracle Coloniality is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality– Walter D. Mignolo Fish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory– Zoe Todd Ethno-Futurism: Leaning on the Past, Working for the Future– Anders Kreuger Artists Lubaina Himid […]
Sometimes it feels impossible to believe in the utopias we dream about, yet sometimes the line between the system and a revolution is just a river. – Dilar Dirik
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 […]
…a collective choreography of banal movements…[1] …even protesting a museum exhibition is still a form of participation…[2] …not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths…[3] …a Roman would always think we…[4] …Judith beheading Holoferenes: make art history scream…[5] …at the Old Library Wex’s book starts to come alive…[6] [1] Hey you, yes you, […]
I painted this work [La muerte de Allende – The death of Allende] the night of the military coup in Chile. When the news arrived, I saw in my mind’s eye a drop of blood falling into the sea. This image anticipated the fate of the desaparecidos, people whom the military kidnapped and tortured before […]
While waiting at the Dubai International Airport after three whirlwind days at the opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 (hereafter SB14), I found myself idly looking back over my Instagram posts from the exhibition. Even though I had taken hundreds of photographs, videos and audio recordings of my experience at the exhibition, I had only shared […]