Spot 1: FIRE ECOLOGY
FIRE ECOLOGY
Fire Ecology is a three-year, multi-part project that spans public programs, publishing, and archival initiatives. It adopts the metaphor of Fire Ecology—the practice of maintain ecosystem health by using controlled fires to burn old growth, thereby fertilizing the soil, and clearing space for new growth to thrive.
Spot 2: BODY HORROR

Interview with Andres Serrano
Insurrectional Evolution: The Cronenbergian Revisited
Film critic Nathan Lee explores the insurrectional body in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” and asks “What do we mean when we speak of the ‘Cronenbergian’?”
Doreen Garner
Garner’s practice represents the body as muscle, fat, sinew, and blood, which bespeak an extreme vulnerability and toe the line between beauty and vulgarity.
Bleeding Out: On the Use of Blood in Contemporary Art
Blood corrupts conventions of purity and privacy to suggest all elements of the body can be used for expression.
Spot 3: IT’S ALIVE

TJ Shin: Unbecoming Human
I Will Not Be Purified
Anyone who has ever been life-threateningly ill will know the desperation it breeds. You’ll try anything. You’ll do anything. And when treatments fail, and doctors—shockingly unskilled in empathy—shrug and suggest this means you will die, you start looking anywhere for help.
Parasite
Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere
Each collaborative entity mobilizes its own kind of micro-performance, but together they maintain a coherence through the way we simultaneously apprehend them in the sensorium. As such, the materials feel less instrumentalized by aesthetics and more mysterious.
Spot 4: QUEER VOICES

Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar
Choreographies of the Impossible, the 35th Bienal de São Paulo
Christian Walker
Representing Lesbian Subjectivities
Spot 5: ENTOMOPHOBIA

Xandra Ibarra: Endurance and Excess
Alexis Wilkinson and Xandra Ibarra discuss cockroach consciousness.
An Eye for An Eye — Bambitchell’s Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
Bugs and Beasts works to remind viewers that such stories aren’t simply dusty curiosities from the footnotes of history books, but practices that fundamentally shaped how we came to understand the intersections between performance, punishment, and the social and legal limits of personhood.
Of Oysters, Roaches, and New Pessimism in Hong Kong
It’s all very Videodrome. That body horror manifests in phone-breath-bed 3 (2023), a sculpture presented in its own small room. A silicone face emerges out of a Perspex panel, where, lower down, a silicone slab forms a womblike concave depression. The panel hovers over the form of a hospital bed with the support of gray plastic piping, whose mattress is a screen-skin painting with creased dermal folds framing silicone protrusions that swell from the flatness.
Spot 6: RADIATION PREOCCUPATION

Chernobyl
The Energy Paradox
Japanese artists’ and cultural workers’ strategies for response to the Fukushima disaster.
Because the Sky Will Be Filled With Sulfur—Jeremy Bolen
Arata Isozaki, Re-Ruined Hiroshima, Photomontage, 1968
Spot 7: FROM THE GLOSSARY
