Bocanegra Performance-Lecture

After a long pause with Artforum, I'm back. They invited me to write a Top 10 but I hadn't seen ten great things. Instead, they let me write about Suzanne Bocanegra's dazzling performance lecture (with Lili Taylor) at The Met back in February. It really stood out as a blinding example of the genre. Link here.

Art of Assembly XIV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Florian Malzacher's long-running and excellent series Art of Assembly came to NY in March. I was totally thrilled to be doing my first in-person public event in 2+ years, and in the company of (insane combination alert) Tania Bruguera and Ann Liv Young. I also discovered I was completely out of practice at navigating live Q&A. Here's the vid.

Conservation Conversation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know nothing about conservation, so I was disconcerted by this invitation to talk to researchers at Bern University of the Arts about the conservation of performance. I declined but Hanna Hölling was persuasive and twisted my arm. The awkward results can be viewed here.

Interventions lecture in Tokyo

Somewhat belatedly, I'm posting this video of a lecture I gave at Tokyo University of the Arts last June. The paper has changed shape a bit since then, but you'll get the gist. Thanks to Professor Mouri for organizing this event and asking great questions.

In conversation with/en conversación con TB

It only took nine years! My book of conversations with Tania Bruguera has been a labour of love and frustration, but it's finally published. Book launch on 15th October, moderated by the great Irene Small; a recording is here. 

Free Your Mind

A speculative review of new MoMA, imagining what we'd see if they'd got it slightly more right. The piece was commissioned by Artforum but they killed it - because I co-authored with Nikki Columbus, who successfully sued MoMA PS1 for gender discrimination in 2019. In their eyes, this produced a "conflict of interest" and insufficient objectivity. Wow. We finally published it with n+1.

Missing Okwui

An obituary for Okwui Enwezor, on the Third Text website. Such a pleasure to spend time revisiting his catalogues, and to appreciate afresh the scale and ambition of his thinking. He is sorely missed.