How to be an artist? Such a question weighs heavily, unanswerable by any amount of technical training or academic curricula. How does an artist navigate the…
During the early 1980s, or maybe late 1970s, I was travelling in Southern Baluchistan, one of the most dry and arid areas of Pakistan.…
Since 1991, when Rodney King’s beating was captured on video by a civilian named George Holliday, the medium’s use as legal evidence has increased…
Subject to Object and Vice Versa In the last few years the status of a work of art has risen beyond that of mere…
The energetic emergence of the artists’ periodical as an important noncommercial alternative space has compelled me to construct a chronology of artists’ periodicals since…
Contemporary art tends to function according to a two-factor authentication (2FA) process. When any array of objects or actions can be deemed art, and…
The relationship between performer and spectator is predicated on physical, temporal, and psychological boundaries—a dynamic of mutual tension, dependency, and consent rooted in the…
Prohibition has openly mutated to what both Freud and Lacan had revealed as its truth: a will to jouissance, a push to enjoy, to…
Children ask questions, amazed by the world; philosophers ask questions, inviting one to develop ideas; police ask questions, framing realities. Questions are never neutral:…
The more saints, the more laughter; that’s my principle, to wit, the way out of capitalist discourse—which will not constitute progress, if it happens…
Postconceptualism As the point at which various artistic movements blur and collapse in service of a global, interconnected art market, postconceptualism can be understood…
I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft. –William Shakespeare, Hamlet This essay will take a closer look at what is an…
1. Supplication and Speculation Because art after conceptualism comprises a mode of production wherein an artwork is nominated rather than crafted—that is, it is…
Terry Smith: There are very few artists still practicing now whose work, however transformed, remains shaped—in its basic parameters, perhaps—by that moment in the…
The predominant mode of production in art after the rise of conceptualism can be understood as a process of discursive argumentation. This era has…
Over the last decade we have witnessed a supposed re-materialization of the “dematerialized art object”1—a trend we’ve seen emerge in contemporary art that can…
The logical theory on which this whole study of symbols is based is essentially that which was set forth by Wittgenstein, some twenty years…