nicholas gamso

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Letter from San Francisco, a report on the CCA collapse, vampiric digital capitalism, and the Wattis Institute's yearlong series on labor, Art Monthly. 
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Dog Days, a conversation with critic Emily LaBarge, celebrating her new book, with Transit at Fraenkel Gallery. 

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Kafka on the Bowery, Zoe Beloff's latest films, Josephine the Singer and Life Forgotten, ​​Brooklyn Rail.

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Sinking Feeling, Zachary Epcar's bewildering vision, at Crossroads/SF Cinematheque, MFJ.​​

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Relational Aesthetics Again, a new edition of Nicolas Bourriaud's landmark book, plus an exhibit, 1+1: the Relational Years, in Rome, Art Monthly.   ​​
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​Real Life. Launching MFJ 82 with films on artifice, truth, and the Hollywood Dream Factory, featuring Zachary Epcar, Elise Rasmussen, Michael Robinson, Kate Lain, and more. Los Angeles Filmforum and 2220 Arts + Archives.

 

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A Seventh Man, John Berger's study of migration in Europe, with photos by Jean Mohr, reissued by Verso, e-flux. ​​​

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Going Nowhere, the funereal Sophie Calle, at Fraenkel Gallery, frieze. 

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Indexical Everything, Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta's new book Against Barthes, published by MACK, Art Monthly.​​

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Refle-x-périmental, no. 22. A conversation with Kim Knowles and Samy Benammar, celebrating a new issue of the MFJ, hosted by Cinédoc/Paris Film Coop and Reflet Médicis. ​

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Gay Men's Book Club, a conversation with Matthew Lax on despair, regression, queer politics, and dialogical art experiments, occasioned by Lax's new film, screening in Rotterdam, Public Review. ​​​​​

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Godly Small Things, Artifice, labor, old Hollywood, told through John Divola's collected continuity stills, recently shown at Gallery Luisotti, East of Borneo. ​​​​​​

 

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Our Lady of the Marshlands, Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell's new film Direct Action, at ICA London, Art Monthly. ​​​

 

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Dedication, a Canyon Cinema salon. Short films about loss and devotion by Vincent Grenier, Gunvor Nelson, Chris Kennedy, Eva Giolo, and Kevin Jerome Everson, with Lynne Sachs and Jenni Olson in person. Marking a new issue of MFJ. Hosted by Artists Television Access.​​

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​What Psychiatrists Do, François Pain, the eccentric antifascist, at JOAN Gallery and 2220 Arts & Archives, e-flux.​​​

 

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A Useless Passion, Narcisa Hirsch's aestheticism, at Microscope Gallery, MFJ.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Film Restoration as Radical Act, Mohanad Yaqubi's R21, at the Pacific Film Archive, Screen Slate. ​

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Stitching Keffiyehs, a conversation on Palestinian artists' cinema, with curators Tamar Beja, Asma Kazmi, and Gazelle Samizay, MFJ. ​

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Destruction des négatifs de jeunesse, a short film on the legacy of writer and photographer Hervé Guibert. Winner of the 2024 open call at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art.​​

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Earliest Photographic Technology, ​​​​​​​​Homma Takashi's pinhole projections, at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, frieze.​​

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Cinematic Sweetmeats, a visit to the studio of inimitable writer, painter, and filmmaker Wayne Koestenbaum, with photos by Guy Nechmad Stern, MFJ. ​​​​

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Navigation Beyond Vision, the prophesies of Harun Farocki, Art Monthly.

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​Pleasure, and the Politics of Writing about it, after Roland Barthes, for a special 50th anniversary edition of Afterimage. ​​​

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​​​​​​​​Impossible Failures, William Pope.L and Gordon Matta-Clark at 52 Walker, MFJ. 

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Relation & Reality, MFA fine arts guest faculty lecture, School of the Visual Arts, New York. 

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Absent Presence, Movement Research. A newly recovered memoir by choreographer and filmmaker Marjorie Gamso. Supported with a grant from Lost + Found. (full text).

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​​A Third of a Century, a collaboration w/ Wolfgang Tillmans, 30 years with i-D. ​​​​​​​​

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Art and the Struggle for Freedom in our Time, a conversation with Tavia Nyong'o on aesthetics and utopian ambitions, City University of New York. 

 

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Vital Signs, Mary Helena Clark at the New York Film Festival, MFJ. ​​​​

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Truth, Politics, Disintegration, Forensic Architecture and the Whitney Museum protests, World Records.​

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Pose, Position, Positionality, the complicated Craig Owens, Texte zur Kunst.   ​​

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Between Catastrophes, Ulrike Ottinger's Exile Shanghai at the Pacific Film Archive, MFJ. ​​

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Profane Illuminations, Micaiah Carter and Wolfgang Tillmans, X-TRA. 

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In the Presence of Others, World Records. A volume of conversations, manifesti, and theoretical writings on Hannah Arendt and documentary form. Published in collaboration with UnionDocs and the Vera List Center. Co-edited with Jason Fox.

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Art after Liberalism, Columbia University Press & Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Collected essays on art and political geography, with works by Tania Bruguera, Laura Poitras, Forensic Architecture, Paul Chan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Arthur Jafa, and more, featuring an interview with MTL Collective. Read an excerpt. ​ ​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

​​image:  Homma Takashi, the narcissistic city (2016)