New York Times // Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical
“Carnelian,” the latest show from the multimedia artist Lex Brown, rides the emotional roller coaster of life under constant threat of demise, with catchy songs.
Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art // Marvelous Survival: 20 Years of SITAC
“Ten years ago I produced a SITAC and still I have not recovered.” tweeted Eduardo Abaroa, artist and director of SITAC 9, The Theory and Practice of Catastrophe. As it turns out, he is far from alone in that sentiment.
de Appel // Everything is New // The Right to Breath as Shibboleth
Part i: "What I say now may not be true tomorrow"
I picture us like a PacMan macroverse. 7.8 billion Inkies, Blinkies, Pinkies and Clydes swarming, munching dots, dodging boogie-ghouls until a glitch freezes our hubbub at random. Liminal transitions suddenly feel like forever positions.
But in reality, that's a view of privileged malaise. With two 00's like nostrils through which to inhale and exhale, 2020 is the year of reckoning the relative right to breath as a shibboleth dividing the global populous into two classes.