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nicholas gamso
my book
Art after Liberalism, Columbia UP & CBAC, 2022. Collected writings on art and political geography. Featuring an interview with MTL Collective. Read an excerpt.
recent & ongoing projects
Godly Small Things, East of Borneo. An essay on artifice, labor, old Hollywood, and the phenomenology of the soundstage, told through John Divola's collected continuity stills.
Absent Presence, Movement Research. Introduction to an newly recovered memoir by choreographer and filmmaker Marjorie Gamso. Supported with a grant from Lost + Found. (full text).
Destruction des negatifs de jeunesse, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art. A short film on the legacy of writer and photographer Hervé Guibert. Winner of Wattis' 2024 open call.
In the Presence of Others, with Jason Fox, 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.
Millennium Film Journal. The only American magazine devoted to artists' moving image and a leading forum for cinema theory since 1978. Featuring reviews, interviews, artists pages, and studio visits. Published by the Millennium Film Workshop.
reviews, profiles, interviews
What Psychiatrists Do, on François Pain, e-flux.
A Useless Passion, Narcisa Hirsch's aestheticism, MFJ.
Navigation Beyond Vision, on late Farocki, Art Monthly.
Stitching Keffiyehs, the curators in conversation, MFJ.
Homma Takashi, earliest photographic technology, frieze.
Mohanad Yaqubi, restoration as political practice, Screen Slate.
Impossible Failures, Pope.L and Matta-Clark, MFJ.
A Third of a Century, a collaboration w/ Wolfgang Tillmans, i-D.
Cinematic Sweetmeats, Wayne Koestenbaum as ever, MFJ.
The Profane Illumination of Adidas, on Micaiah Carter, X-TRA.
Vital Signs, on Mary Helena Clark, MFJ.
Pose, Position, Positionality, on Craig Owens, Texte zur Kunst.
Sex and the Global City, on Ren Hang, Asia Art Archive.
Exile Shanghai, on Ulrike Ottinger, MFJ.
Picking up the Power, Greg Sholette and Tania Bruguera in conversation, World Records.
sundry academic writings
Architectures of Darkness, Mark Bradford and Derek Jarman, Queering Architecture.
Truth, Politics, Disintegration, Forensic Architecture at the Whitney, World Records.
Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question, art and racial capitalism, Social Text.
Lifeworld of the Junkyard, the films of Verena Paravel and JP Sniadecki, ASAP/Journal.
Pleasure, and the Politics of Writing about it, Roland Barthes et cetera, Afterimage.
my book
Art after Liberalism, Columbia UP & CBAC, 2022. Collected writings on art and political geography. Featuring an interview with MTL Collective. Read an excerpt.
recent & ongoing projects
Godly Small Things, East of Borneo. An essay on artifice, labor, old Hollywood, and the phenomenology of the soundstage, told through John Divola's collected continuity stills.
Absent Presence, Movement Research. Introduction to an newly recovered memoir by choreographer and filmmaker Marjorie Gamso. Supported with a grant from Lost + Found. (full text).
Destruction des negatifs de jeunesse, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art. A short film on the legacy of writer and photographer Hervé Guibert. Winner of Wattis' 2024 open call.
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.
Millennium Film Journal. The only American magazine devoted to artists' moving image and a leading forum for cinema theory since 1978. Featuring reviews, interviews, artists pages, and studio visits. Published by the Millennium Film Workshop.
reviews, profiles, interviews
Going Nowhere, on Sophie Calle, frieze.
What Psychiatrists Do, on François Pain, e-flux.
A Useless Passion, Narcisa Hirsch's aestheticism, MFJ.
Navigation Beyond Vision, on late Farocki, Art Monthly.
Stitching Keffiyehs, the curators in conversation, MFJ.
Homma Takashi, earliest photographic technology, frieze.
Mohanad Yaqubi, restoration as political practice, Screen Slate.
Impossible Failures, Pope.L and Matta-Clark, MFJ.
A Third of a Century, a collaboration w/ Wolfgang Tillmans, i-D.
Cinematic Sweetmeats, Wayne Koestenbaum as ever, MFJ.
Profane Illuminations, on Micaiah Carter, X-TRA.
Vital Signs, on Mary Helena Clark, MFJ.
Pose, Position, Positionality, on Craig Owens, Texte zur Kunst.
Sex and the Global City, on Ren Hang, Asia Art Archive.
Exile Shanghai, on Ulrike Ottinger, MFJ.
Picking up the Power, Greg Sholette and Tania Bruguera in conversation, World Records.
sundry academic writings
Architectures of Darkness, Mark Bradford and Derek Jarman, Queering Architecture.
Truth, Politics, Disintegration, Forensic Architecture at the Whitney, World Records.
Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question, art and racial capitalism, Social Text.
Lifeworld of the Junkyard, the films of Verena Paravel and JP Sniadecki, ASAP/Journal.
Pleasure, and the Politics of Writing about it, Roland Barthes et cetera, Afterimage.
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