Spot 1: HORROR AFTER HORROR
Horror After Horror
This issue, Horror After Horror, explores a range of interpretations and evocations of Horror as a medium of displacement through which to process extreme feelings and cultural conflicts. The title alludes both to the relentlessness of horrific events unfolding on a global scale and to the anticipation and unthinkability of what could come next.
Listen to Our Muertos—Emperatriz Plácido San Martín
Plantation Horror
Plantations, as we understand them, declined after Emancipation. But the plantation of the American South has endured in the cultural imagination because of its ability to relentlessly innovate. The Southern plantation—as a place, and as an idea—has become decoupled from its violent past, making it easier to commodify for public consumption.
Spot 2: 1990 ARCHIVE FEATURE “ON CRITICISM”
SPECIAL 1990 ISSUE ON CRITICISM
Criticism and Theory
The Criticism of Quality and the Quality of Criticism
The Role of Art Criticism in the Community
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
Environment
Athleticism
Auscultation
