documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen.…
“But you know Terre, you have a problem with everything.” This comment came during the rather awkwardly titled “Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness,” at Tate…
What follows is [an excerpt of] a narrative poem comprised solely and entirely of the titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions of Western art objects in which a black female figure…
Attempt. Come. Undefined. Be the point of no-reference. Constant, and as a state of formation. Play. Continue to play with the beat. Vibrate with me, so chaos can enter. It is an invitation. Come. As water. As the…
The central square at the port of Piraeus takes its name from one of the most famous leaders in the Greek War of Independence, General Georgios Karaiskakis. The square became well-known in 1922 when many…
Kiev-born experimental filmmaker, poet-writer, self-trained dancer, and photographer Maya Deren (initially Eleanora Derenkowsky) arrived in the United States in the wake of anti-Semitic pogroms in the…
Housing the Museumlandschaft Hessen-Kassel’s collection of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century art, the Neue Galerie has been an important venue in a number of previous editions of documenta…
It’s easily the oldest house I’ve ever lived in—known in Kassel, until I moved into it in August 2015, as the Brothers Grimm Museum. The address is Schöne Aussicht 2, hence the building’s “official”…
In An Opera of the World, Malian filmmaker Manthia Diawara uses opera to reflect upon the migration of people and culture, mainly between Europe and Africa…
Taci, anzi parla: “Shut up. Or rather, speak,” as Italian art critic turned activist Carla Lonzi called her “Diary of a Feminist” in 1978.2 Her title indicated an imperative mood full of doubts…
