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Sounds of De-Composition: An Album Review of Pharmakon’s Maggot Mass (Sacred Bones Records, 2024)
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On Tears, Excess, and the Academic Conference
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Fly-Fishing With AI
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Exhibition Review: Scratching at the Moon
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Exhibition Review: Another Beautiful Country
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Exhibition Review: Isaac Julien’s What Freedom Is To Me
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Music Review: Holly Waxwing’s The New Pastoral
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Reading Douglas
by Xiao (Amanda) Ju I think of reading as one way to be in dialogue with Douglas, and, for me, he is such an important interlocutor. Reading Douglas has always been a bit difficult for me—part of it has to do with the fact that there is a whole set of …
Learning from Douglas: A Course Schedule
by Peter Murphy Art and the City: New York in the 1970s (Fall 2015)Monday 2-4:40PM, Morey 524Professor Douglas Crimp When I walked into the seminar room and saw the word “Cruising” projected onto the vinyl screen, I thought, with a budding sense of sat…
“All the Gay People Will Disappear”
by Benjamin Haber and Daniel J Sander The original context of the above tweet, which preceded Twitter’s introduction of threads, was part of a longer ironic statement in support of the legalization of gay marriage in the state of New York.1 Baldwin sug…
The Weight of the Posthumous: A Review of Etel Adnan “Light’s New Measure” at the Guggenheim Museum
October 8, 2021 – January 10, 2022Guggenheim Museum1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128 Beyond any doubt, the recent passing of Etel Adnan (1925-2021) transformed the sense of her exhibition Light’s New Measure at the Guggenheim. What started as an exhibit…
Murmurations: A Conversation Between Sarah Friedland and Tess Takahashi on CROWDS
by Sarah Friedland and Tess Takahashi Featured Image: Still from Sarah Friedland, CROWDS, Channel 1. Curator´s note by Almudena Escobar López: Sarah Friedland and Tess Takahashi have been in dialogue since they met at the “moving.media@brown” conferenc…
Choreography of the Body’s Collapse: The Anti-Capitalist Politics of Rest
By heidi andrea restrepo rhodes Featured image: “Lady reading in berth with curtains down,” Geo. R. Lawrence Co., c. 1905, courtesy of the Library of Congress. The Brooklyn-based project, Rest for Resistance centers rest as crucial to healing work (it …
The Somnophile’s Guide to Cinema: An Interview with Jean Ma
By Amanda (Xiao) Ju, Jean Ma, Patrick Sullivan, and Madeline Ullrich Featured Image: Still from Cemetery of Splendour (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015). Jean Ma was the keynote speaker for the 12th Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference i…
Moving In: A Review of ‘Home Body’ at Sapar Contemporary
February 19 – March 23, 2021 Sapar Contemporary9 North Moore, NYC For better or worse, every art exhibition over the past year has been framed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At its onset, this connection occurred by default; but as time went on, galle…
Guess who did the crime?: The Facial Composite Game
By Eliseo Ortiz (University of Colorado Boulder) In 1878, British psychologist Francis Galton wrote about the significance of photography in policing and incarcerating populations. Together with the famous jailer Edmund Du Cane, Galton investigated cri…
Forgetting Remains: An essay-review of Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Dropped a day before Halloween, four days before Trump and Biden faced off at the polls, and amid a worldwide uptick in Covid-19 cases, Daniel Lopatin’s ninth studio album as Oneohtrix Point Never landed at a scary moment in this scariest of year…
Sometimes, You Have to Laugh: A Review of Nicola Tyson ‘Sense of Self’ at Petzel Gallery
September 2 – October 3, 202035 E 67th Street Written by Peter Murphy, University of Rochester Stepping into Petzel Gallery on the Upper East Side, I felt beside myself. Months had passed since I last visited a gallery; would I remember how to be…
Pragmatic Experimentalism: A Review of Society Guidance (Part one) at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art’s (UCCA) summer group exhibition Society Guidance (Part I) is a show lesser seen. Compared to the institution’s other summer exhibition, the spectacularly displayed Picasso: Birth of a Genius, coterminously happening …
Game Studies in Visual and Cultural Studies at University of Rochester
At the occasion of the launch of IVC 30 Poetics of Play and the “Breaking Boundaries with Video Games 3” conference held at University of Rochester on April 18-19 2019, we asked VCS alumna Aubrey Anable to share with us her experience of wr…
Amour and Love : On the Invention of the Concept of Love in Cinema
Written by Nava Dushi (Lynn University) and Igor Rodin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Preface “Then what is involved in love?” asks Jacques Lacan.1 We return to and begin with Love. The infatuation of the moving image with Love. From Thomas Edison’s …