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.
Art Agenda // Moving Backwards at JOAN Los Angeles
Image courtesy of Renata Lorenz, Pauline Boudry and JOAN
As I sit to organize my thoughts on Pauline Boudry and Renata Lorenz’s installation Moving Backwards, currently on show in Los Angeles project space JOAN, breaking news alerts slide anxiously across my screen like ephemeral disaster poetry:
Momus // Marfa’s Two-Step: The Uneasy Landscape of Minimalist Heaven
The town’s charms consolidate around a yin and yang of two primary attractions: the preservation of Donald Judd’s presence and the promised absence of anyone else. This contrast tinges the town with an aura of pilgrimage, which is thickened by its relative remoteness. With the nearest city about three hours away, Marfa’s location presents a gauntlet for would-be visitors. If Marfa is Minimalist heaven, it seems unlikely that its patron saint, the famously prickly Donald Judd, would suffer the presence of devotees by convenience.
Art Agenda // Dancing at the End of the World
image courtesy of kim córdova