Briefly Witnessing the Impossible. A Conversation with Megan Mi-Ai Lee
“to ignite our skin” / SculptureCenter, New York
Much recent critical theory has been concerned with the following proposition: that although the triumph of reason claims to have…
Lutz Bacher, “Burning the Days “ / Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
How do you put a finger on Lutz Bacher? Contemplating this, I walked toward Astrup Fearnley through a pocket of…
Zora Sicher, Geography
“Intimacy builds worlds; it creates spaces and usurps places meant for other kinds of relation,” wrote the late theorist Lauren…
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Between Ruins: Zazou Roddam
I’ve known Zazou Roddam for almost a decade, long before Roddam considered herself an artist or I was curating. For…
Spectral Nomenclature. Anastasia Pavlou
Oh heart, oh heart, blind like daylight — Dionne Brand [1] [1] Dionne Brand, Ossuaries (McClelland & Stewart, 2010), 34. I talk to Anastasia…
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The Space Between. Adam Patrick Grant
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking toward Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely?…
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I first met Sofia Defino Leiby pre-pandemic, on a bus as part of a crowd, and she mentioned that she…
Zurich: Peripheral Presence.
Moving through Zurich — whether on foot, by bicycle, tram, or car — rarely involves a direct or uninterrupted trajectory.…
Madrid: Hypnotic Laugh Track
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.” – David Foster Wallace, Infinite…
Chicago: Model City
“You see the eastern critics and historians that assigned Chicago the place of the skeleton frame, thereby, you know, together…
Same is More: Parisian Architecture à l’identique
For a century, architecture has been a crippled art — every building that has been built proves it; formal combinations…
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Who Are These People? A Conversation with Kai Althoff
Carlo Antonelli: Who are these people, the ones that populates your works? Kai Althoff: They accumulate. Some return more often…
Total Warfare. A Conversation with Luigi Alberto Cippini
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Participatory Design or Processual Formalism? Frei Otto, the Ökohaus, and the Ökohäusler
My first, fleeting encounter with the Ökohaus (Eco-House) project came during an all too brief visit to Berlin in November…
Are All Crises Equal? A Conversation with MOS’s Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample
Michael Abel: Currently, the prevailing mindset within the field of architecture centers on crises. But there is a noticeable disconnect between…
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Briefly Witnessing the Impossible. A Conversation with Megan Mi-Ai Lee
A Painting That Says No . Olivia van Kuiken
The Space Between. Adam Patrick Grant
“to ignite our skin” / SculptureCenter, New York
Skin, Cloth, Paper, Snow. A Conversation with Ruoru Mou
On Language and Kitsch. Tasneem Sarkez
Zora Sicher, Geography
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” / Nottingham Contemporary