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books & edited volumes
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.
Art after Liberalism, Columbia UP & Books on Architecture and the City. Collected essays on art and political geography, with studies of Tania Bruguera, Laura Poitras, Forensic Architecture, Paul Chan, Wolfgang Tillmans, Arthur Jafa, and more, featuring an interview with MTL Collective. Read an excerpt.
essays, reviews, interviews, conversations
Saint Peter, Peter Hujar's contact sheets at the Morgan Library & Museum, The Paris Review.
The Card Players, Oliver Osborne's herringbone paintings, at Jessica Silverman Gallery, frieze.
The Deaths in Newport, with curator Andrew Witt, on Lewis Baltz at Gallery Luisotti.
Angelus Novus, Bruce Conner's iconoclastic films at LA's Marciano Foundation, e-flux.
Letter from San Francisco, the CCA collapse & vampiric digital capitalism, Art Monthly.
Dog Days, with Emily LaBarge, on her unclassifiable new book, at Fraenkel Gallery.
Kafka on the Bowery, Zoe Beloff's latest, Josephine the Singer and Life Forgotten, Brooklyn Rail.
Sinking Feeling, Zachary Epcar's bewildering vision, at Crossroads/SF Cinematheque, MFJ.
Relational Aesthetics Again, a new edition of Nicolas Bourriaud's landmark book, Art Monthly.
A Seventh Man, John Berger's reportorial experiment, with photos by Jean Mohr, e-flux.
Going Nowhere, the funereal Sophie Calle, at Fraenkel Gallery, frieze.
Gay Men's Book Club, with Matthew Lax, occasioned by his new film, Public Review.
Indexical Everything, Joan Fontcuberta's new book Against Barthes, Art Monthly.
Godly Small Things, artifice, labor, and John Divola's collected continuity stills, East of Borneo.
Useless Passions, Narcisa Hirsch's aestheticism, at Microscope Gallery, MFJ.
Our Lady of the Marshlands, Cailleau and Russell's Direct Action, at ICA London, Art Monthly.
What Psychiatrists Do, François Pain, the eccentric antifascist, at LA's JOAN Gallery, e-flux.
Film Restoration as Radical Act, Mohanad Yaqubi's R21, Screen Slate.
Stitching Keffiyehs, with curators Tamar Beja, Asma Kazmi, Gazelle Samizay, MFJ.
Navigation Beyond Vision, the prophesies of Harun Farocki, Art Monthly.
Pinhole Projections, Homma Takashi at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, frieze.
Cinematic Sweetmeats, communing with Wayne Koestenbaum, MFJ.
Pleasure, and the Politics of Writing about it, the 50th anniversary edition of Afterimage.
Impossible Failures, William Pope.L and Gordon Matta-Clark at 52 Walker, MFJ.
Art and the Struggle for Freedom, dual lecture with Tavia Nyong'o, City University of New York.
A Third of a Century, a collaboration w/ Wolfgang Tillmans, 30 years with i-D.
Vital Signs, Mary Helena Clark at the New York Film Festival, MFJ.
Profane Illuminations, Micaiah Carter and Wolfgang Tillmans, X-TRA.
Between Catastrophes, Ulrike Ottinger's Exile Shanghai at the Pacific Film Archive, MFJ.
Truth, Politics, Disintegration, Forensic Architecture and the Whitney protests, World Records.
Pose, Position, Positionality, the complicated Craig Owens, Texte zur Kunst.
curated film screenings
Standard N̶o̶r̶m̶a̶l̶ Distribution, short films by Lynne Sachs, Jaime Davidovich, and Videofreex, accompanying a conversation with Matt McKenzie, Rebecca Cleman, Emily Martin, and Joe Wakeman, and Camila Galaz. Millennium Film Workshop.
Real Life, a selection of short films on artifice, materiality, and the Hollywood Dream Factory, featuring Zachary Epcar, Elise Rasmussen, Michael Robinson, Kate Lain, and more. Los Angeles Filmforum and 2220 Arts + Archives.
Refle-x-périmental, no. 22, films by John Smith, Samy Benammar, Claudia Hart, & the late Tomonari Nishikawa, with Samy and Kim Knowles in person, celebrating a new issue of MFJ, hosted by Cinédoc/Paris Film Coop and Reflet Médicis.
Dedication, a Canyon Cinema salon, 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. Hosted by Artists Television Access.
Confessions & The Collective, queer comic masterpieces by Curt McDowell and Wayne Koestenbaum, featuring Wayne in person with special guest Linda Martinez, hosted by San Francisco Art Institute.
Destruction des négatifs de jeunesse, a Super 8 short on the legacy of writer and photographer Hervé Guibert. Winner of the 2024 open call at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art.
Principles of Decolonial Film, Screening and conversation with Helene Kazan, Nitasha Dhillon, Amin Hussain, Ariella Azoulay, and Jason Fox Union Docs and Vera List Center, celebrating the relase of World Records, vol. 4.
a personal project
Absent Presence, A newly recovered memoir by choreographer and filmmaker Marjorie Gamso, published in Movement Research with a grant from Lost + Found.
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