Radical Looking: (Newly) Seeing Art With My Baby
I am so excited to share a new essay in Momus exploring how my way of looking at art (and life) has changed since having a baby:
I’ve rediscovered the joy of looking at art because I get to look at it with my son, which makes me feel less alone. In a way, art has become more important to me, while all the trappings of the contemporary art world have become so much more tiresome, superfluous. After surviving the fourth trimester, I am no longer daunted by the melodramas of the art world, the glitzy fairs, the antics of the enfant terrible of the moment, the internet improprieties of aging art critics. It all feels so small—a cocktail party circus.
If you enjoy this essay, you will probably enjoy the podcast I recorded exploring these themes in relation to some of my artwork, Episode 3 of the Revolution Art Society Podcast (available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube)
The Aesthetics of Empire: Neoclassical Art and White Supremacy
In this essay I trace how neoclassical art functions as propaganda for white supremacist and colonial imaginations of power and marginalized bodies.
The Impossibility of Art
My essay on art, "social practice," politics, capitalism, and gentrification can be read at the link above on Sixty Inches from Center. It is a companion piece to my interview with artists Samantha Hill and Ed Woodham, who were expelled from their residency in Macon, Georgia in the summer of 2016.
Feminist Advice from the City of Broad Shoulders
#NewGlobalMatriarchy, an essay I co-authored with Stephanie Graham, is included in this collection, edited by Jessica Caponigro and available for purchase at the link above.
How to Be a Monster
I am very happy about my first print publication, an essay and artwork in Issue 5 of Skin Deep Magazine. Print issues are available for purchase in London or online. You can read the essay here.
An Ethnography of White Men by the Goddess Kali
Poems published in Drunken Boat 23, part of the "Speculative" folio edited by Anomalous Press.
Diverus: The Past, Present, and Future of "Diversity Work"
An exploration of "Diversity Work" and workers within arts institutions
The Freedom to Oppress
Co-authored with Eunsong Kim, part of the first issue of contemptorary a new art writing project highlighting marginalized voices in the art world.
The Virus of Scarcity and the Culture of Abundance
In Issue #5: HEALTH of Sixty Inches from Center
Art Without Artists: Against the Artist CEO
Co-authored with Eunsong Kim
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
A response to the 2014 Whitney Biennial, co-authored with Eunsong Kim. Selected by Ben Davis and the editorial staff at artnet.com as one of the most important art essays of 2014.
Lacuna Projects
A blog that explores my museum-related projects