Reviews
Tiona Nekkia McClodden at Kunsthalle Basel
The Last Frontier Left to Conquer:
Brief Reflections on Silent Running (1972)
Lowell, in his arguments with fellow crew members, explains that, on Earth, “there are no more frontiers left to conquer,” disclosing the colonialist mindsets of governance on Earth and their extension into space. With human action no longer confined to a finite Earth, expansionist ambitions find an outlet through the technical ingenuity of the Valley Forge’s sealed domes, stewarded by Lowell and his spiritual ethic.
Erasing Pronouns: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Ottilia
The Story of Art Without Men By Katy Hessel
Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relámpago
Art and the Thinking Machine: Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982
Insisting on Resisting : Counterpublic 2023
Carolyn Lazard: Long Take
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.