TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summer 2018

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Cover: David Wojnarowicz, Rimbaud mask, ca. 1978. © The Estate of David Wojnarowicz. Photo: Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU.

Summer 2018, Vol. 56, No. 10

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COLUMNS

BOOKS

Bruce Hainley on Elena Filipovic’s David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale

BOOKS

J. Hoberman on From the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader

FILM

Melissa Anderson on Adèle Haenel

ON SITE

Siddhartha Mitter on the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

ON SITE

Wes Hill on the 21st Biennale of Sydney

PERFORMANCE

Catherine Damman on Yve Laris Cohen

SLANT

Rahel Aima on Maria Thereza Alves’s Seeds of Change

top ten

Miz Cracker

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BLACK LIGHT

Charles W. Mills on Black Enlightenment

THE NEW SAVAGERY

J. M. Bernstein on the Enlightenment body

STAY BAROQUE

Boaventura de Sousa Santos on postabyssal thinking

LAND OF THE LOST

MTL Collective talks with Jasbir K. Puar about decolonization

A BAD DAWN

Sarah Nicole Prickett on freedom and solitude

AFTER WORDS

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ

WEIGHT OF THE EARTH (EXCERPTS)

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ

DEAD ALIVE

CYNTHIA CARR ON DAVID WOJNAROWICZ

A SEASON IN HELL

WILLIAM E. JONES ON DAVID WOJNAROWICZ’S CLOSE TO THE KNIVES: A MEMOIR OF DISINTEGRATION

TOY SOLDIERS

CARLO McCORMICK ON 3 TEENS KILL 4

PIER 34

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DIRK ROWNTREE

AT WIT’S END

ARA OSTERWEIL ON THE ART OF ADRIAN NORVID

MICHAEL PAREKŌWHAI

TALKS ABOUT HIS CURRENT EXHIBITION AT TE PAPA TONGAREWA, WELLINGTON

ALL SHOOK UP

AMY TAUBIN ON EUGENE JARECKI’S THE KING

LIGHT HOUSES

RENZO PIANO TALKS WITH JULIAN ROSE

TEXAS ISAIAH

TIONA NEKKIA McCLODDEN ON TEXAS ISAIAH

ADELITA HUSNI-BEY

COLBY CHAMBERLAIN

WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?

Where, When, Who, What: Seven Responses

REALITY CHECK

Where is Enlightenment? Adrian Piper responds.

LET US NOT PRAISE FAMOUS MEN

Michelle M. Wright asks: Why do we take the white male voice seriously?

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View of “Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away,” 2018. Foreground: 08:03, 28.05, 2009. Background: Christmas (Rome), 2012, 2013. Photo: David Heald.

James Meyer on Danh Vo

View of “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth,” 2018. From left: Flag on Orange, 1958; Flag, 1958; Three Flags, 1958 Photo: Pablo Enriquez. © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Daniel Marcus on Jasper Johns

Zoe Leonard, Strange Fruit, 1992–97, orange, banana, grapefruit, lemon, and avocado peels; thread, zippers, buttons, sinew, needles, plastic, wire, stickers, fabric, trim wax. Installation view. Photo: Ron Amstutz.

Rachel Churner on Zoe Leonard

NTU (Bogosi Sekhukhuni with Nolan Oswald Dennis and Tabita Rezaire), Thus Saith the Lord (Overunity), 2015, digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes 59 seconds.

New York

Manuel Neri, Bull Jumper III, 1989, plaster, pigment, steel, Styrofoam, burlap, 30 1⁄4 x 42 x 21 1⁄2".

New Haven

Phyllis Tuchman on Manuel Neri

A. Laurie Palmer, Sensing Connection to the Time Left (detail), 2018, fabric, thread, steel cable, hardware. Installation view. Photo: James Prinz.

Chicago

Joe Rudko, San Juans, 2018, found photographs on paper, 38 x 50".

Portland, Oregon

Jon Raymond on Joe Rudko

Nicole Eisenman, Heading Down River on the USS J-Bone of an Ass, 2017, oil on canvas, 10' 7 1/4“ x 8' 9”.

Los Angeles

Aslan Gaisumov, Keicheyuhea, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 26 minutes.

London

Michele Spanghero, Vol., 2018, lacquered wood, loudspeakers, modified microphones, microphone stands, audio cables, audio system, sound, dimensions variable.

Paris

Johanna Jaeger, sidewalk fossil (brooklyn), 2017, two C-prints, each 12 3/8 x 9 5/8".

Berlin

Mathilde Rosier, Blind Swim 14, 2017, oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 43 3/8".

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Mathilde Rosier

Laura Grisi, Sunset Light, 1967, neon, Plexiglas, 86 1⁄4 x 11 7/8 x 11 7/8".

Bologna, Italy

Alessandra Pioselli on Laura Grisi

Anj Smith, Sport Luxe, 2016, oil on linen, 19 3/8 x 16 7/8".

Zurich

Maja Naef on Anj Smith

Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, 1922—The Uncomputable, 2016, HD video, color, sound, 26 minutes.

Luxembourg

Claire Moulène on Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni

Hiwa K, View from Above, 2017, digital video, color, sound, 12 minutes 27 seconds.

Ghent, Belgium

Jos Van den Bergh on Hiwa K

Lisa Holzer, The Party Sequel (Paris), 2017, polyurethane and acrylic paint on glass, ink-jet print, 43 1/2 x 34“. From the series ”The Party Sequel (Paris)," 2017.

Vienna

David Misteli on Lisa Holzer

View of “Máquinas de vivir. Flamenco y arquitectura en la ocupación y desocupación de espacios” (Machines for Living: Flamenco and Architecture in the Occupation and Vacating of Spaces), 2018. Photo: Pep Herrero.

Barcelona

Marti Peran on “Machines for Living”

Loukia Alavanou, New Horizons—Pilot, 2018, VR video, color, sound, 9 minutes.

Athens

Cathryn Drake on Loukia Alavanou

Pedro Reyes, Puño rojo (Red Fist), 2013, volcanic stone, concrete, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 3 1/8“. From ”Archivo Centro SCOP."

Mexico City

Fabiola Iza on “Archivo(s) Centro SCOP”

Maria Auxilidora da Silva, Mobral, 1971, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 23 5/8 x 47 1/4".

São Paulo

Vivan Sundaram, 12 Bed Ward (detail), 2005, steel, shoe soles, string, wire, lightbulbs, dimensions variable.

New Delhi

Meera Menezes on Vivan Sundaram

Vivek Vilasini, Between One Shore and Several Others, 2005, wood, acrylic lettering, seven ink-jet prints, each 40 x 30".

Dubai

Murtaza Vali on Vivek Vilasini

Lawrence Lek, 2065 Game, 2018, open-world video game, sound.

Hong Kong

Stephanie Bailey on Lawrence Lek

Nippan Oranniwesna, Lunar Eclipse (detail), 2018, coins, chain, golden frames, two elements, this one 10' 3 7/8“ x 1 1/2”.

Bangkok

Narawan Pathomvat on Nipan Oranniwesna

Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle, 1976, acrylic and silk-screen ink on canvas, 15 x 19“. From ”If Our Soup Can Could Speak: Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties."

Moscow

Rachel Wetzler on Mikhail Lifshitz

Grant Stevens, Happiness, 2018, 4K video, color, sound, 5 minutes 29 seconds.

Sydney

Toni Ross on Grant Stevens