
If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as “After the orgy”. The orgy in question was…
If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as “After the orgy”. The orgy in question was…
BABAK GOLKAR: I want to begin by introducing myself, my name is Babak Golkar and I have the pleasure of introducing Ali who is…
IN RESPONSE TO A CALL FROM QOQQOON WEBZINE ON HOW TO BE AN ARTIST: A BRIEF EXCHANGE BETWEEN A PAINTER AND A BLACK MONOCHROME…
This statement sounds trite, or worse, mean-spirited. But if we consider the Lacanian concept of the idiot, we may not be able to dismiss…
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…
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, art is taken up as having something to teach psychoanalysis about the unconscious and the historical structures of discourse. Art becomes…
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…