The Gwangju Biennial: Traumatic Memory and the Absence of Stability
This article was previously published in Issue 19, ABSENCE (December 2018). Celebrating its 12th anniversary, the Gwangju Biennial began...
Woven in Time: The Importance of Anni Albers
This article was previously published in Issue 19, ABSENCE (December 2018). The idea that only weaving and ceramics art is suitable for...
Family Pictures: My Parents and ‘GENERATIONS’
GENERATIONS Installation View, Showing: Hurvin Anderson, Is It Okay to be Black? (Image: Carlotta Pierleoni) I think I should start this...
Attendees: Please Take Notes on Camp!
When I heard that the theme of this year’s Met Ball was based on Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’ I was both excited and...
John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’: A Hard-Hitting Wake-Up Call
In ‘The Loop or the Vortex’, Kader Attia reminds us of a limitation Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were confronted with as they...
‘Velvet Buzzsaw’: Artfully Dodge this Horror
I am usually the first to avoid horror films, but the trailer for Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw intrigued me. A horror film concerning the art...
Notes on Camp: ‘Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!’
Picture the scene. You’re in your most splendid garb, nursing a double vodka orange between the murky hours of 12am and 4am in The Flying...