The Unbearable Lightness of Drawing, Tripoli Cancelled, Gosse Interview
As we work to finalize Millennium Film Journal issue #69 I realize I have failed to mention what I’ve been up to in recent issues. For MFJ 67 I wrote a review of Naeem Mohaiemen‘s great film Tripoli Cancelled, which was on view at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City.
Senior Editor Grahame Weinbren and I interviewed Art Historian Johanna Gosse. Her essay called “Ways of Seeing After the Internet,” also published in MFJ 67, is on John Berger and Ways of Something, an artwork by Lorna Mills in which artists remake the visuals for one-minute segments of Berger’s classic television series Ways of Seeing. Grahame edited her interview into this video:
For MFJ 68 I wrote “The Unbearable Lightness of Drawing,” an inaugural Studio Visit feature profiling artist and animator Dustin Grella and Dusty Studio, located in the South Bronx. Rebecca Krasnik and I made a bunch of photographs. The launch screening for the issue was in November at Anthology Film Archives.
Pippilotti Rist / MFJ 65
Millennium Film Journal issue No. 65, Architecture On Screen and Off, is out and it includes my review of Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at The New Museum (October 26, 2016-Jan 1, 2017). The issue unveils a new, larger format and also includes an interview with Colleen Fitzgibbon on CoLab TV, writing on the invention of glitch video, DCTV, Sondra Perry and much more!
Image: New York Times
ELSE magazine launch: The Imperceptible Self
I am excited to be included in the latest edition of ELSE journal: “The Imperceptible Self.” In my contribution, “The Image of Empathy and Becoming in 1970s Star Trek Cosplay,” I have included a selection of images from a found slide archive and tried to contextualize it with some history and speculative framing. Launch and reading tomorrow at The Powerplant Arena in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
ELSE Journal launch issue 2: “The Imperceptible Self”
Fully aware that in these times, our “interaction” with “other” cultures and with nature is both inevitable and profoundly altering; we will consider other modes of framing action and existence than identity politics, shepherding nature and “I.” How else can we consider the implosion of exiled states; the entropic influx into the largest cities; the sinking of smaller ones; the collapsing distance between us? How to live now in the “eruption of desire for the future which reshapes the present”—to become imperceptible?Join us for the launch of our next issue of ELSE Art and Cultural Journal with readings by select artists. An occasional journal that welcomes experimental and alternative forms of representing creative work.
Contributors include: Adrian Piper, Carol Becker, Akil Kirlew, Jean-Ulrick Desert, Alexandra Ross, Gayle Meikle, Analia Sirabonian, Caroline Koebel, Jennie Klein, Sonia Barrett, Ian Burkhart, Luisa Greenfield, Mark Roth, Morgan O’Hara, Rachel Dedman, Ayman Hassan, Rachel Stevens and Susie Quillinan.
ELSE is a peer-reviewed journal of works, projects, and research thematically gravitating towards memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive; language/image; international diaspora and post-colonialism; role of art in peace meditation; liminality; space/place; temporary architecture; foreignness, otherness and the uncanny.
Launch event at Powerhouse Arena
Readings, signings and a reception. Meet faculty, students and learn more about our three year research projects which began this summer with the Transart Triennale and continues with the journal.
www.elsejournal.org/else-launch / www.transarttriennale.org
Hito Steyerl at Artists Space
The latest issue of Millennium Film Journal – Millennium Film Journal 62, New Books, Fall 2015 – is out. It includes my write-up of Hito Steyerl’s expansive exhibition at Artists Space in NYC last summer. It was a feat of endurance to watch and absorb all her complex projects that fill both Artists Space locations – but worth it! Also a challenge to say something as articulate as what Steyerl would say about her own work. She is a media theory visionary. The line between theorizing and making in her work is very porous indeed. Scroll down on the Artists Space exhibition page to download her writings and you’ll see what I mean.
MFJ 61 is here
Amie Siegel. Provenance (still), 2013. HD video, color, sound; 40 min., 30 sec.
Millennium Film Journal #61, World Views, is out and it includes my review of Amie Siegel’s terrific video installation Provenance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.