Bad at Art Forum #8: Not Retweeting Documenta Fifteen

Bad at Art Forum #8: Not Retweeting Documenta Fifteen

I am not retweeting documenta fifteen. Instead, taking my cue from the approach of Palestinian collective The Question of Funding (QoF)’s response to the vandalism of the Eltiqua Group’s exhibition space in WH22, I hope to leave the evidence in the room without...

“I’d be safe and warm if I was in LA…”

Towards the end of The Function of Criticism, Terry Eagleton suggests that the “role of the contemporary critic,” which is of course a different thing than the function of criticism – right? a role and a function are different things, but of course the function of something might be to provide a role, or a role might be to serve a function, in both cases it seems like function is greater than, trumps or possibly dictates, role – is to reconnect “the symbolic to the political,” by which he means “engaging through both discourse and practice with the process by which repressed needs, interests, and desires may assume the cultural forms which could weld them into a collective political force.” He is emphatic in pointing out that this role, this idea, is not new at all, but – like many ideas around a liberatory role for art, theory, etc – harks back to an earlier historical moment.

What We’re Doing This Weekend 4.9-4.12

What We’re Doing This Weekend 4.9-4.12

Thursday (today!) Mechanisms for Validation (Please, please just love me, or at least tell me I’m pretty, but I’ll settle for confirmation that I’m smart) April 9th, 7pm threewalls 119 n. peoria #2d Chicago, IL  60607 Moderated by our very own Duncan...
Art journals round table discussion

Art journals round table discussion

  For those who don’t subscribe to the e-flux announcements, or have stopped paying attention to them, there was an intriguing round table discussion going down over the weekend at their New York City space on the Lower East Side. With the launch of issue...