What You Should Have Noticed in June
What You Should Have Noticed in June, 2014 Welcome back to this month’s edition of What You Should Have Noticed, wherein I try to sum up this month’s happenings from around the art world with a little extra special attention paid towards events here in Chicago. June...
The State of Nature: Recent Work by Tom Denlinger and Victoria Fuller
Lise McKean is a social anthropologist and writer based in Chicago. In 2013 she curated StreamLines, an exhibition of contemporary art in Vaishali, India.
Becoming my idol with Keith J. Varadi
Guest post by Jacob Wick. I met Keith J Varadi—artist, poet, writer, performer, and Associate Director at Greene Exhibitions—at the HMS Bounty, one of my favorite bars in Koreatown. We began by talking about Lance Stephenson’s conduct in the recently-concluded NBA...
Power Plays of Currencies, Desires, Energies
A string of questions: What is the discourse of power that we subscribe to? Is it constrained by capital or physical strength? Is it supernatural or material? Where is it located? Who participates? Further: What are the material conditions that underpin these power...
