Van den Berg’s intricately plotted stories are narrative nonplaces, glutted with information and drift. A review of The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
"LtG", graphic materials for exhibition events, Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva, 2013. In his book Carbon Democracy (Verso, 2011), Timothy Mitchell traces the history of oil from…
In Esfehan, a little girl who lost her mother stood next to a soldiers’ barrack. With one wet eye toward the uniformed guards behind her, she yelled, “I am scared of the police. I am scared of the police!”
In trying to foster a sense of feminist community, Suzanne Lacy’s art performance “Between the Door and the Street” revealed some of the structures, forces, and blind spots that fracture it
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.