With a cat, Marcel Broodthaers, Yuk Hui, Barry Schwabsky, Renee Gladman, Boris Groys, Alice Wang, Elizabeth Willis, Steve McQueen, Doreen Mende, Mary N. Taylor, Janet Sarbanes, Hugo García Manríquez, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tina M. Campt, and Jace Clayton.
AMERICA LOVES its unconscionable mash-ups. Since the 1990s, a fixture of Thanksgiving Day football coverage has been television anchors’ ritual consumption of a “turducken”: a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey. Following that logic, what would be the apposite coinage for a manifesto slipped into a press release set inside the screenshot of a Gmail message? A manipresscreenmail, or a Gshotleasefesto? Either way, the announcement for “Nobodies New York,” a small group show organized by Josh Kline in 2009, a full one hundred years after the Futurist Manifesto appeared in Le Figaro,
What I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. Barbara Christian, “The Race for Theory”IN AN ESSAY on the uncompromising brilliance of Toni Morrison’s oeuvre, published just months before the passing of this inimitable writer, Namwali Serpell observes: “There are many ways to be ‘difficult’ in this world: stubborn, demanding, inconvenient, complex, troublesome, baffling, illegible. Black womanhood is where they overlap.” Black women have always been difficult for the world, which relentlessly demands their labors, but disdains the exorbitance their labors bring forth.This