Mel Chin

Thirty years after Mel Chin pointed a rifle at the heads of an audience assembled for a public talk, the artist re-examines this eerily prescient work in our current moment of resurgent fascisms, rampant viral scares—both medical and digital—and the need to reimagine everything.

Jordan Deal

The artist Jordan Deal reflects on the sanctuary and peril of public gathering.

Homa and Saba*

How a group of transnational artists are using archiving and accelerated storytelling as radical acts of resistance.

Kenya (Robinson)

Through a hyperlinked lyric essay, and a month-long social media takeover, Kenya (Robinson) explores the relationship between Black people and water—both fresh and saltwater—as an essential part of the storytelling of US histories.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca & Ishmael Randall-Weeks

Ximena Garrido-Lecca & Ishmael Randall-Weeks describe a process of building a structure communally out of materials brought by participants, revealing the strength of collective memory and its capacity to unveil corruption and lies in the context of Peru’s recent and deep pasts.

Jorge González and Angela Brown

An email exchange accompanied by a diary of images and texts, reflects on and practices the relearning of traditional crafts in Boriquén (Puerto Rico) as a recuperative strategy for colonial erasure of land rights, a subject increasingly raw and urgent as climate crisis deepens.

Alper Turan with B. Toprak Karakaya, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, and Koli Art Space (Yasemin Kalaycı & Elçin Acun)

The illusory victimhood of ultranationalists draws passionate responses from queer culture workers from Turkey who are committed to undoing their hate.

Tiffany Sia with Emilie Sin Yi Choi and Chan Tze-Woon

Three Hongkongers got together in July 2022 to talk about the relationships between documentary filmmaking, protest, who gets to record history, and the challenges of working and screening films under the gaze of the state.