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 […]
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 […]
I have just read Candice Hopkins essay “The Appropriation Debates” in the most recent issue of Mousse magazine. Hopkins, whose work on global indigenous art and culture I first encountered at documenta 14, discusses two controversial artworks of the last year: the inclusion of Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket (2016) at the Whitney Biennial and […]
Please allow me to remind you, it’s always your business. I am your business just as our business belongs to us. Public transit seduces me with a fantasy of who we work, who we channel, in the service of. It prevents abstraction to “the human race” with all the horrible spirits lurking in its utterance. […]