MAKE HISTORY
Tim Griffin on the art of Virginia Overton
Present Danger
North Korea’s monumental gifts to Africa
Saidiya Hartman
From the archive: Saidiya Hartman on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary
Jasmina Cibic
The hard lessons of Europe’s soft power
Under the Cover: The Otolith Group
Ed Halter speaks with The Otolith Group about Sovereign Sisters, 2014
A LANDSCAPE WE ALL HELP TO MAKE
Barry Schwabsky on Rackstraw Downes
PRINT September 2006
OPENINGS: THE OTOLITH GROUP
T. J. Demos
This week, the editors recall T. J. Demos’s “Openings” column on the Otolith Group, which appeared in the magazine’s pages in September 2006. A still taken from the Otolith Group’s digital animation Sovereign Sisters, 2014, is featured on the cover of the May issue. Additionally, the artists can be found in conversation with writer and curator Ed Halter in the latest episode of “Under the Cover.”
It was art historian and cultural critic T. J. Demos who, back in 2006, first introduced our readers to the Otolith Group and its founders, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar. Demos’s essay focuses on the