Sensing Plants: An InterView with Zheng Bo
Speaking in a careful and considered way, which echoes his art-making, Zheng Bo talked about his relationship to plants, Daoist philosophy and poetics. Talking to him, I am reminded that while the consideration of non-human agencies is particularly topical in this moment, it is also, in fact, ancient wisdom.
Between Opacity and Transparency: Wu Tsang at Gropius Bau
‘There is no non-violent way to look at somebody,’ an exhibition of film, sculpture, text and sound by artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang, is currently on view at the Gropius Bau.
Performing the Political in Drag: An Interview with Olympia Bukkakis
For the Berliner Tanztage in March of this year, the performer Olympia Bukkakis presented ‘Gender Euphoria’, a performance-lecture-cabaret show that proposes drag as a way to experience not only a sense of euphoria, but also a radical utopia, one in which gender and identity are truly unoppressive.
Rethinking Masculinity at Galerie im Turm
The title of the two-person exhibition at Galerie im Turm, ‘Mighty Good Men,’ brings to mind the 1994 Salt-N-Pepa song ‘Whatta Man,’ the gist of which is that a good man, more specifically a “mighty good man,” is a rarity. In the age of #MeToo, this sentiment is all too appropriate.
Automation // ‘Sandy Speaks’: An Interview with American Artist
In 2015, a 28-year-old black woman named Sandra Bland was arrested after being pulled over for making an illegal lane change. Three days later, she was found dead in her Texas jail cell.
Play // Human and Non-Human Hybrids: An Interview with Melanie Bonajo
I first encountered the work of Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo several years ago in New York, through a series of photographs in which women’s bodies collectively asked questions about resistance, intimacy, satire and progress.
HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL: The work of jessica posner
The phrase “butter face” is a derogatory term describing a person with a hot body but an ugly face — as in “everything but-her-face.”