nicholas gamso

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Refle-x-périmental, no. 22. A conversation with Kim Knowles and Samy Benammar, celebrating the new issue of the Millennium Film Journal, hosted by Paris Film Coop and Reflet Médicis. ​

 

 

A Seventh Man, John Berger's study of migration in Europe, with photos by Jean Mohr, reissued by Verso, e-flux. 
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Indexical Everything, Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta's new book Against Barthes, published by MACK, Art Monthly.​​

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Gay Men's Book Club, a conversation with Matthew Lax on despair, regression, and dialogical art experiments, occasioned by Lax's new film, screening in Rotterdam, Public Review. ​​​​​

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Going Nowhere, the funereal Sophie Calle, at Fraenkel Gallery, frieze. ​​
 

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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. Marking a new issue of MFJ. Hosted by Artists Television Access.​

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Our Lady of the Marshlands, Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell's new film Direct Action, at ICA London, Art Monthly. ​

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Godly Small Things, Artifice, labor, old Hollywood, told through John Divola's collected continuity stills, recently shown at Gallery Luissoti, East of Borneo. ​​​​​​

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A Useless Passion, Narcisa Hirsch's aestheticism, at Microscope Gallery, MFJ.​​

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​What Psychiatrists Do, François Pain, the eccentric antifascist, at JOAN Gallery and 2220 Arts & Archives, e-flux.​​​

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Stitching Keffiyehs, a conversation on Palestinian artists' cinema, with curators Tamar Beja, Asma Kazmi, and Gazelle Samizay, MFJ. ​

 

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Film Restoration as Radical Act, Mohanad Yaqubi's R21, at the Pacific Film Archive, Screen Slate. ​

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​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.​​

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Earliest Photographic Technology, ​​​​​​​​Homma Takashi's pinhole projections, at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, frieze.​​

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Cinematic Sweetmeats, a visit to the studio of  inimitable writer, painter, musician and filmmaker Wayne Koestenbaum, with photos by Guy Nechmad Stern, MFJ. ​​​​

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Navigation Beyond Vision, on the prophesies of late Farocki, Art Monthly.

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​Pleasure, and the Politics of Writing about it, after Roland Barthes, for a special 50th anniversary edition of Afterimage. ​​​

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​​​​​​​​Impossible Failures, William Pope.L and Gordon Matta-Clark at 52 Walker, MFJ. 

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Relation & Reality, MFA guest faculty lecture, School of the Visual Arts, New York. 

 

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Architectures of Darkness, Mark Bradford and Derek Jarman, at the MFA Boston. A chapter in Queering Architecture. ​​​​

 

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Absent Presence, Movement Research. A newly recovered memoir by choreographer and filmmaker Marjorie Gamso. Supported with a grant from Lost + Found. (full text).

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​​A Third of a Century, a collaboration w/ Wolfgang Tillmans, marking 30 years with i-D. ​​​​​​​​

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Art and the Struggle for Freedom in our Time, a conversation with Tavia Nyong'o on aesthetics and utopian ambitions, City University of New York. 

 

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Vital Signs, Mary Helena Clark at the New York Film Festival, MFJ. ​​​​

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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. ​ 

 

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Pose, Position, Positionality, on the complicated Craig Owens, Texte zur Kunst.   ​

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Between Catastrophes, Ulrike Ottinger's Exile Shanghai at the Pacific Film Archive, MFJ. ​​

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Profane Illuminations, on Micaiah Carter and Wolfgang Tillmans, X-TRA. 

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Truth, Politics, Disintegration, Forensic Architecture and the Whitney Museum protests, World Records.​

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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.

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I Heard his Cunning Laugh, Sabrina Zhao's Brechtian allusions, at MoMA Doc Fortnight, MFJ. ​

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Revisiting Suzanne Lacy's Oakland Projects, on the artist's retrospective at YBCA & SFMOMA, PAJ.​​​​

 

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Sex and the Global City, Ren Hang's social experiments, Asia Art Archive. ​​

 

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Lifeworld of the Junkyard, the films of Verena Paravel and JP Sniadecki, ASAP/Journal. ​​​​​​​​

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Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question, art and racial capitalism in New York, Social Text.  ​

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Image:  Homma Takashi, the narcissitic city (2015)

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