After the flood, imagine letters scattered by their floating. This is how the past returns to us, in fragments of single pages pulled free of their bindings, or as newspaper clippings of memory, loosened from an album. As an artist…
In a poor, farm-dense region of South Korea with a complicated political history1, art with an explicit emphasis on radical political activism has been challenging—and perhaps pushing—international biennale culture for almost 20 years2. This year, the biennale faced some political…
There’s no such thing as nature. For some, this is a commonplace fact: there is virtually no place on earth untouched by human beings, especially if we consider the subtle, universal changes of the earth’s ecosystems caused by anthropogenic climate…
Cannibalism “was a nationalist strategy of cultural anti-imperialism, according to which the culture imposed by the First World should be devoured, digested, and recycled according to local needs.” —Film Reference, on Brazil’s Cinema Novo Speaking with ICA Assistant Curator Anna…