Activism
3D-printing face shields to combat the shortage of PPE for hospital workers.
3D-printing face shields to combat the shortage of PPE for hospital workers.
The composer and multimedia artist on raising awareness of the Asian experience during the pandemic.
Think high-rises, gated communities, all the places that give you a twitch of existential dread. The Amazon shipping facilities, the dying superstores, the prisons and detention centers, the pig farms, all the boxes that hold products and people and animals, the LeCorbusian landscape one skirts over or through, avoids.
An excerpt from Unferths’s novel Barn 8 (Graywolf).
The writer on romance under capitalism, Nietzsche, sex work, and freedom from the tyranny of the sentence.
The artist, activist, and voguer on her Bauhaus-inspired performance for the Performa 19 Biennial.
I disrupt the concupiscence of tube worms / where your snowy owl eye consults among white crusts / the venom of my gymnodactyl eye / which bribes the slag of trilobites
Discipline, resistance, and care flow through the performance artist’s work.
Two artists drawing from punk, graffiti, and traditional Native American aesthetics, talk about protest art and the notion of the “Post-Smithsonian delinquent.”
The citizen investigator as poet.
A political exhibition wrestles with its complicity.
Sex as ecstasy and trap.
The poet on prison writing, collective art-making, Bay-area resistance, and being read in a thousand years.
A New York- and Cairo-based artist unpacks her understanding of heritage and how it can operate in contemporary art.
“I won’t open my palm for those wanting to dominate.”
On the day of POTUS 45’s inauguration, alt-right front man Richard Spencer was punched in the face during an interview for Australian television.
“Activism always involves a kind of coalition building, but the kind of community art is capable of building extends further, to the dead and the unborn.”
How willful captivity shaped a sculptor’s practice.
An architect talks about her data maps of urban conflict from Brooklyn to Aleppo.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
