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The Museum As Battlefield – The Case Of Hito Steyerl, Part 1 (Wigbertson Julian Isenia)
The following is the first of a two-part series. If we lose public and semipublic space, we lose everything. Artists give up their authorship when necessary, and it is the same for institutions. We need to find ways to get out of the art context, especially during historical moments like…
“When Did Beauty Become So F…n’ Ugly?” (Davor Džalto)
In Jonathan Parker’s movie Untitled (2009) we find an insightful (and also cynical) description of some of the major features of the contemporary art world. One of the main characters, Josh (Eion Bailey), is a successful commercial painter who is nicely positioned within the contemporary art market. Josh…
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 3 (Roger Green)
The following is the last of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here, the second here. Although Mercante tracks gender differences, when visitors are foreign, education level, and occasionally social class, he does not address ethnicity among members. This makes his work difficult to comment on from the…
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 2 (Roger Green)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here. An economic approach that more astutely tracks what’s at stake in emergent ayahuasca religions might combine Luis León’s idea of ‘religious poetics’ with anthropologist, Michael Taussig’s ficto-criticism of Latin American economies. I cite these…
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 1 (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The second part can be found here. In this essay I am going to explore New Religious Movements (NRMs) emergent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that use entheogens or psychedelic substances as sacrament. This means that the use of mind-altering substances…
On Affect Theory And Art Criticism, Part 2 (Jeremy LeMahieu)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first part can be found here. There are two common methods of writing about this experience. One describes the experience and brings it into the realm of representation. The other explains how the experience was created through a process…
On Affect Theory And Art Criticism, Part 1 (Jeremy LeMahieu)
The following is the first installment of a two-part series. There it is. Here you are. The encounter with art. Before, during, and after the recognition of the art object. Before, during, and after the art has been broken down into its essential formal elements. Before, during, and after having…
Library Of Dreams – Bibliotherapy And The Beautiful Barrio (Joy Roulier Sawyer)
Years ago I pursued a doctorate in the interdisciplinary fields of art, psychology, and theology. At the time, I served as poetry editor for a flailing literary journal with the same three-part focus, an enterprise that eventually folded, as did many publications of that era. I felt intuitively that our…
The Tiny House Movement – Where Less Is Really More (Rebekah Gordon)
The current vogue for so-called “tiny houses”, where people live in as little as 100 to 400 square feet, derives in many respects from the earlier artistic movement known as minimalism. Following the reductive trajectory of modernism, and reacting against the emotionalism and politicalization of abstract expressionism, minimalism – a style of abstract art…
Art And Madness, Part 2 (Iwo Zmyślony)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. Less than a year prior to the publication of Prinzhorn’s book, another major publication came out titled Madness and Art. The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli (Ein Geisteskranker als Künstler), where the…