BEYOND THE VISIBLE — “I had reached the nothing, and the nothing was living and moist.” — Clarice Lispector The excerpt from Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. accompanied Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili’s 2016 exhibition I Move Forward, I Protozoan, Pure Protein at Micky Schubert Gallery in Berlin, Germany. This enigmatic link between the nothing…

A PROXIMITY TO WILDNESS — Annika Larsson is a Swedish artist working mainly with film, video, performance and installation. She is interested in incidental but meaningful gestures and rituals, in corporal-linguistic patterns of behavior that conceal hierarchical social power structures. Her works have been widely shown internationally, at institutions including Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Fundacion…

RETHINKING THE BODY — Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland in 1982 and received her MFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2007. In 2006 she was one of five young artists selected for the MTN New Contemporaries exhibition at Johannesburg Art Gallery. She is the…

THERE IS NOTHING LITTLE ABOUT LITTLE LIGHTS IN THE SKY — CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of Amanda Paradise (Wave Books, 2021). Other titles include The Book of Frank, While Standing in Line for Death, and Ecodeviance. They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda…

BLACK, BLACK, BLAH BLAH BLAH? — Judith Sánchez Ruíz, a Cuban-born choreographer, teacher, and improviser, first encountered modern dance when she was 11 while attending the National Art School Cuba in 1983. After graduating from the school with a diploma in Modern and Folkloric Dance, Sánchez relocated to New York in 1991. She has worked with…

CONVERSATION & A POEM — Born in 1986, in Khevsureti, a high mountainous region of Georgia with close to 50 inhabitants, Lia Liqokeli is a poet with a breath-taking voice at the forefront of contemporary Georgian poetry. Liqokeli took to writing at the age of twenty five and her first texts were published in the…

A WORLD OF POSSIBLE REALITIES — Marcus Coates, a London based artist and amateur naturalist, explores the pragmatism and insight that empathetic perspectives and imagined realities can offer. …

WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE MATERIAL, WHICH IS THE BODY IN MOTION — Simone Forti is a Postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer. She is a recipient of various prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Dance in 2005 and a Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts in 2011. Her work has been shown at international venues such as the Louvre…

ALLOW THE UNEXPECTED IN — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and two nonfiction titles, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her new book, The Freezer Door, described by Maggie Nelson as “a book about not belonging that left me feeling deeply less alone,” will be published by Semiotext(e) on November…