TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summer 2016

list view

Cover: Barbara Kruger, special project for Artforum, 2016.

Summer 2016, Vol. 54, No. 10

columns features reviews

COLUMNS

Zaha Hadid, Overall Isometric—Day View, 1983, acrylic on paper, 52 × 72 1/2". © Zaha Hadid Architects.

PASSAGES

Anthony Vidler on Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid in front of her Phaeno Science Center, 2005, Wolfsburg, Germany, November 23, 2005. Photo: Jochen Luebke/AFP/Getty Images.

PASSAGES

Mark Wigley on Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid Architects, London Aquatics Centre, 2011, London. Photo: Hufton + Crow. © Zaha Hadid Architects.

PASSAGES

Frank Gehry on Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid Architects, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, 2014, American University of Beirut. Photo: Hufton Crow. © Zaha Hadid Architects.

PASSAGES

Bernard Tschumi on Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid Architects, Avenues Mall Mosque, 2009, Kuwait. Rendering. © Zaha Hadid Architects.

PASSAGES

Nasser Rabbat on Zaha Hadid

Vitra Fire Station, 1993, Weil am Rhein, Germany. Photo: Christian Richters. © Zaha Hadid Architects.

PASSAGES

Daniel Libeskind on Zaha Hadid

BOOKS

Nairy Baghramian, Carissa Rodriguez on SUMMER READING

Hana Makhmalbaf, Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame, 2007, 35 mm, color, sound, 81 minutes.

BOOKS

Ara Osterweil on Sophie Mayer’s Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema

BOOKS

Naomi Beckwith, Ben Lerner, Yvette Mutumba, Mark Dion, Lauret Savoy, and Tony Tulathimutte on SUMMER READING

Tacoma Action Collective die-in at the exhibition “Art AIDS America,” Tacoma Art Museum, WA, December 17, 2015. Photo: Saiyare Rafael.

BOOKS

Julia Bryan-Wilson on Susan E. Cahan’s Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power

Nina Simone performing at the Newport Jazz Festival, RI, July 4, 1968. Photo: David Redfern/ Getty Images.

MUSIC

Daphne A. Brooks on modern protest pop

Mamoru Oshii, Ghost in the Shell, 1995, 35 mm, color, sound, 82 minutes.

SLANT

Dawn Chan on Asia-futurism

View of “The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism,” 1993, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine. From left: David Hammons, African American Flag, 1990; Renée Green, Blue Skies, 1990; Gary Simmons, Us & Them, 1990; Pat Ward Williams, 32 Hours in a Box . . . and Still Counting, 1988. Photo: Catherine Opie.

SLANT

John Tain on “The Theater of Refusal” (1993)

SLANT

Wayne Koestenbaum on “‘My’ Masculinity”

View of “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1994–95. From left: Robert Colescott, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from American History, 1975; Gary Simmons, Step in the Arena (The Essentialist Trap), 1994; Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, Rumble Young Man Rumble, 1993. Photo: Geoffrey Clements.

SLANT

Thelma Golden on “Black Male” (1994–95)

Charles Ray, Family Romance, 1992–93, painted fiberglass, synthetic hair. Installation view, 1993 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo: Ted Thai/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images.

SLANT

Elisabeth Sussman on the 1993 Whitney Biennial

top ten

Rivka Galchen

columns features reviews

INTRODUCTION

Michelle Kuo

Still from Andrea Geyer’s Comrades of Time (Elsa), 2010–11, HD video, color, sound, 8 minutes 39 seconds. One of seven HD videos from the installation Comrades of Time, 2010–11.

COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: A ROUNDTABLE

Dipesh Chakrabarty, David Joselit, Kara Keeling, Kobena Mercer, Michelle Kuo, and Emily Roysdon; moderated by Huey Copeland

Page from Oscar Murillo’s artist’s book Them, 2015–, ink and oil pastel on paper, 11 3/4 × 8 1/4".

ARTISTS AND IDENTITY

Iman Issa, Oscar Murillo, Antoine Catala, Carrie Yamaoka, Senga Nengudi, Ajay Kurian, Park McArthur, Martine Syms, Aki Sasamoto, A. K. Burns, Christine Sun Kim, Hank Willis Thomas, Mary Kelly, Will Rawls, bell hooks, Cathy Park Hong, Kalup Linzy and Dan Colen, Bouchra Khalili, Rashaad Newsome

From left: Wu Tsang, Untitled, 2015, fabric, metal stand, crystals, 80 × 32 × 32“. Wu Tsang, Untitled, 2015, fabric, metal stand, crystals, 73 × 18 × 16”.

ARTISTS AND IDENTITY

Wu Tsang, Zackary Drucker, Coco Fusco, Samson Young

ARTIST’S PROJECT

fierce pussy (Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka)

Machetes and knives found near the border of Rwanda, Goma, Zaire, 1994. Photo: Gilles Peress. © Gilles Peress/Magnum Photos.

WRITING THE VOID: LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND MIGRATION

Homi K. Bhabha

Zoe Leonard, Misia, postwar, 2016, four gelatin silver prints, each 12 × 9 3/4".

ARTIST’S PROJECT

Zoe Leonard

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta Construction Chart #2 (detail), 1975, dyetransfer print, 24 × 20". From the series “Roberta Breitmore,” 1972–79.

PERSONAE OF INTEREST:

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON AND JULIANA HUXTABLE IN CONVERSATION

Spread from Artforum, November 1974. Advertisement by Lynda Benglis.

FUCK YOU!

A FEMINIST GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE ART WORLD Ara Osterweil

ARTIST’S PROJECT

Adrian Piper

THE IDENTITY ARTIST AND THE IDENTITY CRITIC

Hannah Black

Danny Lyon, Crossing the Ohio River, Louisville, 1966, gelatin silver print, 8 × 12 1/2". From the series “The Bikeriders,” 1962–66. © Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos.

IN COLD BLOOD: THE ART OF DANNY LYON

Brian Wallis

ARTIST’S PROJECT

Andrea Crespo

Still from George Holliday’s video of LA police beating Rodney King, March 3, 1991. From a broadcast on KTLA News, Los Angeles, March 4, 1991.

IN PLAIN VIEW: VIDEO EVIDENCE

Louis-Georges Schwartz

ARTIST’S PROJECT

Claudia Rankine and John Lucas

United States–Mexico border, Border Field State Park, Imperial Beach, CA, 2014. Photo: Tony Webster/Flickr.

THE WALL: THE SAN DIEGO–TIJUANA BORDER

Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

TARGET AUDIENCES: THE FILMS OF MARLON RIGGS

Ed Halter

columns features reviews

View of “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” 2015–16. Foreground, from left: Kerry James Marshall, Buy Black, 2012; Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, 2011; Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2007. Background, from left: Christopher Wool, Kidnapped, 1994; works by Josh Smith, 2007–13. Photo: Stephan Wyckoff.

Jack Bankowsky on “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age”

View of “M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art,” 2016. From left: Liu Wei, It Looks Like a Landscape, 2004; Yangjiang Group, Calligraphy Peach Blossom Garden, 2004.

Philip Tinari on “M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art”

Michael Joo, This beautiful striped wreckage (which we interrogate) . . . , 2016, video projection, mixed media, found objects. Installation view, Sailor’s Home. Photo: Miriam O’Connor.

Kevin McGarry on the EVA International

Stan Douglas, Them Secret Agent, 2015, six-channel HD video projection, color, sound, 53 minutes 35 seconds. Inspector Heat (Marcello Urgeghe).

London

Adriana Lara, Live (Wild, Animal, Disco, Deviant), 2016, digital projection on curved screen, color, sound, 4 minutes 47 seconds. Song by Emilio Acevedo, montage by Martin Bautista. Installation view. Photo: Marc Domage.

Paris

Deborah Remington, Essex, 1972, oil on canvas, 95 × 66".

Berlin

Anita Leisz, Untitled, 2016, gypsum, fiberboard, 10 1/2 × 43 3/8 × 4 3/8". Photo: Tina Herzl.

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Anita Leisz

View of “Runo Lagomarsino,” 2016. Foreground: West Is Everywhere You Look, 2016. On wall: Mare nostrum (Our Sea), 2016. Photo: Agostino Osio.

Milan

Alessandra Pioselli on Runo Lagomarsino

View of “Adam Vačkárˇ,” 2016. Foreground: This Side of Paradise (Space Seed #1–6), 2016. From the series “Seeds,” 2016. Background: Four works from the series “Counterculture,” 2016.

Brussels

View of “Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art,” 2015–16. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij.

Amsterdam

Martha Buskirk on Seth Siegelaub

View of “Joachim Bandau,” 2016. Photo: Conradin Frei.

Zurich

Lia Kazakou, Untitled, 2015, oil on canvas, 19 3/4 × 23 3/4".

Thessaloniki, Greece

Jurriaan Benschop on Lia Kazakou

Seher Shah, Flatlands (scrim), 2015, ink on paper, fifteen panels, each 31 1/4 × 43".

Dubai

Stephanie Bailey on Seher Shah

Carlos Motta, Patriots, Citizens, Lovers . . . , 2015, ten-channel video installation, plywood platform. Installation view. Photo: Sergey Illin.

Kiev

Adam Kleinman on Carlos Motta

Köken Ergun, Young Turks, 2015, two-channel digital video, color, sound, 48 minutes 24 seconds. Installation view.

Moscow

Kate Sutton on Köken Ergun

Cédric Maridet, Rise, Fall (detail), 2016, acrylic tank, distilled water, ethanol, camphor, potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride, LED, wooden pedestal, 57 × 21 1/4 × 11 3/4".

Hong Kong

Stephanie Bailey on Cédric Maridet

Hemali Bhuta, Image A, 2015, aluminum, waterproof solder, and pencil on paper, 16 1/4 × 22 1/4". From “Diary Entries.”

New Delhi

Himali Singh Soin on “Diary Entries”

Shahryar Nashat, Parade, 2014, HD video, color, sound, 38 minutes. From the 20th Biennale of Sydney.

Sydney

Toni Ross on the 20th Biennale of Sydney

View of “Iran do Espírito Santo,” 2016. Foreground: Cúpula (Dome), 2013–14. On wall: Fuso (detail), 2016. Photo: Eduardo Ortega.

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Iran do Espírito Santo

View of “Becky Howland,” 2016. 247365. Photo: MacGregor Harp.

New York

Ryan Trecartin, Mark Trade, 2016, HD video, color, sound, 73 minutes 30 seconds. Mark Trade (Murphy Maxwell).

new york

Colby Chamberlain on Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin

View of “Jessi Reaves and Sophie Stone,” 2016. On floor: Sophie Stone, Untitled (in-reverse #1), 2014/2016. Chairs: Jessi Reaves, His and Hers Ferraris, 2014.

Los Angeles

Julian Rosefeldt, American Night, 2009, five-channel HD video installation, color, sound, 40 minutes 42 seconds.

Saint Louis

Jeffrey Saletnik on Julian Rosefeldt

Zig Jackson, Camera in Face, Taos, New Mexico, 1992, ink-jet print, 14 1/4 × 19 1/2". From the series, “Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian,” 1991–92.

Portland

Jon Raymond on “Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy: Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, and Will Wilson”