The duo behind Otolith talk about their complex collaged videos, which tackle everything from lost utopian thinking to the concept of vertical time. Why do they think the apocalypse is already here?
This week, the editors recall T. J. Demos’s “Openings” column on the Otolith Group, which appeared in the magazine’s pages in September 2006. A still taken from the Otolith Group’s digital animation Sovereign Sisters, 2014, is featured on the cover of the May issue. Additionally, the artists can be found in conversation with writer and curator Ed Halter in the latest episode of “Under the Cover.” It was art historian and cultural critic T. J. Demos who, back in 2006, first introduced our readers to the Otolith Group and its founders, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar. Demos’s essay focuses on the