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This week, the editors recall scholar Branden W. Joseph’s essay “Dark Energy: The Art of Marco Fusinato” from February 2011. Recently for artforum.com, Adam Jasper wrote about Fusinato’s two-hundred-day performance at the Australian pavilion as part of the 2022 Venice Biennale.Joseph’s expansive essay introduced Artforum’s readers to Australian artist and noise musician Marco Fusinato, whose work engages and tests the bounds of radical political and aesthetic acts inside of capitalism. “Though allegorizing historical distance, commodification, even ‘failure,’” writes Joseph, “Fusinato’s work
A critique of the black bloc, which the author sees as coming from a specific context, time and struggle. Now, stripped of these things, it has become both a tactic and identity with an implicit strategy of grabbing attention or creating autonomous space through street fighting and property destruction.