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Our Lady of the Marshlands, Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell's new film Direct Action, Art Monthly.
Gay Men's Book Club, a conversation with Matthew Lax on queer politics, despair, regression, and dialogical art experiments on the occasion of Lax's new film, screening at Rotterdam International Film Festival, Public Review.
Going Nowhere, on the funereal Sophie Calle, at Fraenkel Gallery, frieze.
Dedication, a Canyon Cinema salon. Short films about loss and devotion by Vincent Grenier, Gunvor Nelson, Chris Kennedy, Eva Giolo, and Kevin Jerome Everson, with Lynne Sachs and Jenni Olson in person. To celebrate a new issue of Millennium Film Journal. Hosted by Artists Television Access.
What Psychiatrists Do, on François Pain's eccentric antifascism, at JOAN Gallery and 2220 Arts & Archives, e-flux.
A Useless Passion, on Narcisa Hirsch's aestheticism, at Microscope Gallery and SF Cinematheque, MFJ.
Godly Small Things, Artifice, labor, old Hollywood, and soundstage phenomenology, told through John Divola's collected Warner Bros. continuity stills, recently shown at Gallery Luissoti, East of Borneo.
Stitching Keffiyehs, a conversation on Palestinian artists' cinema, with curators Tamar Beja, Asma Kazmi, and Gazelle Samizay, MFJ.
Film Restoration as Radical Act, Mohanad Yaqubi's R21, BAMPFA's Documentary Voices, Screen Slate.
Destruction des negatifs de jeunesse, a short film on the legacy of writer and photographer Hervé Guibert. Winner of the 2024 open call at the Wattis Museum of Contemporary Art.
Earliest Photographic Technology, Homma Takashi's pinhole projections, at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, frieze.
Cinematic Sweetmeats, a visit to the studio of the inimitable writer, painter, musician and filmmaker Wayne Koestenbaum, MFJ.
Navigation Beyond Vision, on late Farocki and lots of others, Art Monthly.
Pleasure, and the Politics of Writing about it, after Roland Barthes, for a special 50th anniversary edition of Afterimage.
Impossible Failures, William Pope.L and Gordon Matta-Clark at 52 Walker, MFJ.
Architectures of Darkness, Mark Bradford and Derek Jarman, at the MFA Boston. A chapter in Queering Architecture.
Absent Presence, Movement Research. A newly recovered memoir by choreographer and filmmaker Marjorie Gamso. Supported with a grant from Lost + Found. (full text).
A Third of a Century, a collaboration w/ Wolfgang Tillmans, marking 30 years with i-D.
Vital Signs, Mary Helena Clark at the New York Film Festival, MFJ.
Art after Liberalism, Columbia University Press & Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
Collected essays on art and political geography, with works by Tania Bruguera, Laura Poitras, Forensic Architecture, Paul Chan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Arthur Jafa, and more. Featuring an interview with MTL Collective. Read an excerpt.
Pose, Position, Positionality, on the contradictory Craig Owens, Texte zur Kunst.
Between Catastrophes, Ulrike Ottinger's Exile Shanghai at the Pacific Film Archive, MFJ.
Profane Illuminations, on Micaiah Carter and Wolfgang Tillmans, X-TRA.
Truth, Politics, Disintegration, Forensic Architecture and the Whitney Museum protests, World Records.
In the Presence of Others, World Records. A volume of conversations, manifesti, and theoretical writings on Hannah Arendt and documentary form. Published in collaboration with UnionDocs and the Vera List Center. Co-edited with Jason Fox.
I Heard his Cunning Laugh, Sabrina Zhao's Brechtian allusions, MFJ.
Revisiting Suzanne Lacy's Oakland Projects, on the artist's retrospective at YBCA & SFMOMA, PAJ.
Sex and the Global City, Ren Hang's social expeirments, Asia Art Archive.
Lifeworld of the Junkyard, the films of Verena Paravel and JP Sniadecki, ASAP/Journal.
Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question, art and racial capitalism in Brooklyn, Social Text.
Images: Eva Giolo, the Demands of Ordinary Devotion (2022); Warner Bros. continuity photograph, in John Divola's collection (n.d./2016); Hervé Guibert, Destruction des negatifs de jeunesse (1989); Marjorie Gamso by Karen Robbins (n.d.); Wolfgang Tillmans, Sendeschluss / End of Broadcast 1 (2014); Homa Takashi, Thirty-Six View of Mount Fuji (2016); Harun Farocki, Images of the world and Inscriptions of War (1988); Roland Barthes' mother (n.d.).
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