27. Interview
Hito Steyerl
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“If I ever reached a milestone I would run away in horror.”
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Featured
26. Interview
Sianne Ngai
in conversation with Alec Recinos
"We could say that the entire enterprise of art has a gimmick problem."
Recent
25. Roundtable
Anarchic Archive: Godzilla Roundtable
with Tomie Arai, Dawn Chan, Howie Chen, Ricky Ruihong Li, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, and Paul Pfeiffer
“‘Asian American’ identity may be a construction but the social and psychic life of racialized people in America is very real.”
24. Interview
Dodie Bellamy
in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler
“My attention tends to focus on the micro, on what’s right in front of my face—be it a memory or on a screen or some fragile blip of the ‘real’—and I let associations spiral out from there.”
23. Roundtable
Knobkerry Roundtable
with Charles Daniel Dawson, Kyle Dancewicz, Carmen Hammons, Joanne Robinson Hill, Svetlana Kitto, Kathleen McDonnell, Seret Scott, and Ken Tisa
“The store was about conversations between worlds and how those conversations meshed together and only Sara could do that.”
22.
Gregg Bordowitz
in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler
"I decided to schmear my queer Jewish pinko self in schmaltz and go out and grease up the stage."
21.
Elizabeth Diller
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
"I can’t think of architecture as anything other than a performative art form."
20.
Black Bataille
by Aria Dean
“Blackness presents the possibility of a thoroughly anti-Idealist aesthetic and theory of objects.”
19.
Catharsis in Ten Fragments
by Lauren O'Neill-Butler
"I've never understood catharsis."
18.
Michael Taussig
in conversation with Nancy Goldring
“Sacrifice is a pointed instance of dépense, an exquisitely sacred combustion, and one that runs throughout Bataille’s economics.”
17.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
in conversation with Valerie Midlin
“L’informe comes out of WWII, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.”
16.
Matthew Barney
in conversation with Aria Dean
"At the core, I think of my creative language as being rather formless."
Volumes
Volume 1
On L’informe
Rethinking contemporary aspects of the informe—related to technology, gender, disease, and race—in a Bataillean key through interviews with Matthew Barney, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and Michael Taussig; a roundtable featuring Bruce Hainley, Ruba Katrib, and November editors; and essays on Black Bataille and the long shadow of catharsis.
Volume 0
Interviews 1-10
Adrian Piper, Frank B. Wilderson III, Christopher K. Ho, Sarah Schulman, Nell Painter, Ruba Katrib, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Mark Wigley, Howardena Pindell, and Hal Foster.