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Arthur Bispo do Rosário: Art Brut Icon in Afterall Journal
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Afterall Journal Issue 54, titled 'Voicings', features an essay by Edward Gómez on Arthur Bispo do Rosário, a seminal figure in Art Brut/Outsider art. The issue interrogates…
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Babi Badalov's 'Demodernisation' in Afterall Journal Issue 48
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Afterall Journal Issue 48 features an essay on Babi Badalov's concept of 'Demodernisation', written by Anders Kreuger and published on July 1, 2019. The full text is accessible…
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Alberto López Cuenca on Artistic Labour and Enclosure in Afterall Journal
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Alberto López Cuenca's essay 'Artistic Labour, Enclosure and the New Economy' was published on 31 May 2012 as part of Afterall Journal Issue 30. The full text is restricted to…
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Andrea Bowers's History Lessons in Afterall Issue 14
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Andrea Bowers's work is examined in an essay titled 'Andrea Bowers’s History Lessons' by Jill Dawsey, published in Afterall Journal Issue 14 on May 7, 2009. The full text is…
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Chon A. Noriega on Raphael Montañez Ortiz's Destructivist Cinema
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Published in Afterall Journal Issue 21, Chon A. Noriega's essay 'Against the Archive: Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s Destructivist Cinema' examines the artist's radical film practice.…
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Jack Goldstein Essay Published in Afterall Journal Issue 4
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Afterall Journal has published an essay titled 'Figuring Difference: The Work of Jack Goldstein' in its Issue 4, dated 29 April 2001. The essay is authored by Jean Fisher and…
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Edgar Arceneaux’s Search for the Meaning Among Infinite Variations
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Charles Gaines wrote an essay titled 'Edgar Arceneaux’s Search for the Meaning Among Infinite Variations', published on May 6, 2004, in Afterall Journal Issue 10. The full text is…
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Afterall Journal Issue 10 Features Essay 'Drawings of Removal' by Catrin Lorch
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The essay 'Drawings of Removal' by Catrin Lorch is published in Afterall Journal Issue 10, dated 4 May 2004. The full text is accessible only to journal subscribers or via…
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Daniel Richter's Essay on Peter Doig in Afterall Issue 2
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Daniel Richter authored an essay titled "Dots on Doig" published in Afterall Journal Issue 2 on October 12, 2000. The full text is restricted to subscribers, with individual…
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Counter-Time: Group Material’s Chronicle of US Intervention in Central and South America
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This essay by Claire Grace, published in Afterall Journal Issue 26 on 3 February 2011, examines the work of the artist collective Group Material, focusing on their chronicle of US…
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Arahmaiani: Challenging the Status Quo – Afterall Essay
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This text is an essay by Wulan Dirgantoro, published on 21 September 2016 as part of Afterall Journal Issue 42. The full article is only accessible to journal subscribers, with…
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YANAK UYWAÑA: The Mutual Nurturing of the Arts by Elvira Espejo Ayca
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Afterall published an essay titled 'YANAK UYWAÑA: The Mutual Nurturing of the Arts' by Elvira Espejo Ayca on 30 January 2024, as part of issue 55/56 'Out of Place'. The full text…
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Pia Arke's 'Ethno-Aesthetics' Published in Afterall Issue 44
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Afterall Journal has published 'Ethno-Aesthetics', an essay by Greenlandic artist and writer Pia Arke, as part of its Issue 44. The text, dated 4 September 2017, is available only…
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Center for Historical Reenactments Essay in Afterall Issue 39
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Afterall Journal Issue 39, published on September 20, 2015, includes an essay titled "Center for Historical Reenactments: Is The Tale Chasing Its Own Tail?" written by Khwezi…
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Jim Shaw's Compendium Explored in Afterall Essay by Claire Barliant
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Claire Barliant wrote an essay titled 'The Artless Dodger: Jim Shaw and His Endless Compendium,' published on May 26, 2008, as part of Afterall Journal Issue 19. The essay…
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Art and the Foreigner’s Gaze: Contemporary Arab Representations
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Pablo Lafuente's essay 'Art and the Foreigner’s Gaze: A Report on Contemporary Arab Representations' was published on 1 May 2009 as part of Afterall Journal Issue 15. The text…
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Dieter Roelstraete Essay on Catastrophilia in Afterall Issue 15
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Afterall Journal published an essay titled 'On Catastrophilia' by Dieter Roelstraete in Issue 15, dated May 1, 2007. The full text is restricted to subscribers or available for…
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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Saloua Raouda Choucair in Afterall Issue 32
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Afterall Journal Issue 32, published 30 January 2013, includes an essay by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie titled 'A Damaged Painting, A Shard of Glass: Discovering Saloua Raouda Choucair'.…
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Rustam Khalfin’s Corporeality and Tactility Explored in Afterall Essay
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An essay titled 'The Issue of Corporeality Through the Prism of Tactility' in Rustam Khalif’s Art, co-authored by Rustam Khalfin and Yuliya Sorokina, was published on 4 September…
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The Karrabing Film Collective's 'Comedy of Entanglement' in Afterall Journal
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The Afterall Journal published an essay titled 'Comedy of Entanglement: The Karrabing Film Collective' on July 1, 2019, written by May Adadol Ingawanij. The essay appears in…
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Nav Haq's Essay on Black Swans in Afterall Journal 50
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Nav Haq authored an essay titled 'Dark Matter, or the Infinite Reservoir of Black Swans' published in Afterall Journal 50 on November 11, 2020. The full text is behind a paywall…
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Christina Kubisch's Sonic Practice Explored in Afterall Essay
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Anne Zeitz's exploration of sound and light in Christina Kubisch's artistic practice is featured in the latest edition of Afterall Journal, published on April 11, 2021. Her essay,…
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Åsa Nacking Interviews Superflex for Afterall Journal Issue 0
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Afterall Journal published an exchange between curator Åsa Nacking and the Danish artist collective Superflex in its inaugural Issue 0, dated 29 April 1998. The piece, an essay…
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Carl Einstein: Reproducing the Real by David Quigley in Afterall Issue 23
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David Quigley's essay 'Carl Einstein: Reproducing the Real' was published in Afterall Journal Issue 23 on February 3, 2010. The full text is accessible only to subscribers, with…
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Afterall Journal Issue 54 ‘Voicings’ Examines Disability and Surveillance
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Afterall Journal has published Issue 54, titled ‘Voicings’, which interrogates normative modes of being, perception, and expression. The issue includes the article ‘We Burn…
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Matthew Barrington Examines Aldo Tambellini’s Radical Blackness in Afterall Essay
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Matthew Barrington authored an essay titled 'Black Is… Unpacking Aldo Tambellini’s Radical Blackness,' published on November 11, 2021, as part of Afterall Journal issue 52. The…
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Afterall Publishes Essay on Lispector and Clark's Material Mysticism
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The newest release of Afterall, issues 55 and 56, titled "Out of Place," includes an essay authored by Charles Stankievech that delves into material mysticism as reflected in the…
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Afterall Issue 55/56 Explores Terraforming and Geoengineering
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Afterall has published issue 55/56 titled 'Out of Place', featuring an essay 'Shaping Atmospheres: From Terraforming Land to Geoengineering Air' by Ala Roushan with Charles…
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CounterIntelligence: A Glossary of Doubled Agency by Charles Stankievech
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Charles Stankievech's essay 'CounterIntelligence: A Glossary of Doubled Agency' was published on September 21, 2016, as part of Afterall Journal Issue 42. The full text is…
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Hanna B. Hölling on Aldo Tambellini’s Intermedia in Afterall 52
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The essay 'Matter Minding, or What the Work Wants: Aldo Tambellini’s Intermedia' by Hanna B. Hölling was published on November 11, 2021, in Afterall Journal issue 52. The full…
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Devotion and Betrayal: Air Time/Hang Time in The Passion of Wooster
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This text is part of Afterall Journal Issue 11, published on May 7, 2005, and written by Jane Philbrick. The full article is only available to journal subscribers or for…
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Julieta González on Juan Downey's 'Whole Earth' in Afterall Issue 37
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Julieta González's essay 'Beyond Technology: Juan Downey’s Whole Earth' appears in Afterall Journal Issue 37, published October 2, 2014. The full text is restricted to…
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Jill Magid: A Preamble to a Postscript in Afterall Journal Issue 39
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Afterall Journal Issue 39, published August 22, 2015, includes an essay by Mihnea Mircan titled 'Jill Magid: A Preamble to a Postscript'. The full text is accessible only to…
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Afterall Journal Publishes Essay on Hand-Drawn Map as Decolonising Document
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Afterall Journal Issue 44 includes an essay titled 'A Hand-drawn Map as a Decolonising Document' by Maria Therese Stephansen, published on 4 September 2017. The full text is…
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Voicing: A Practice of Exodus by Eleni Ikoniadou in Afterall Issue 54
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Eleni Ikoniadou's essay 'Voicing: A Practice of Exodus' is published in Afterall Journal Issue 54, themed 'Voicings'. The text interrogates and challenges the imposition of…
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Afterall Journal 50 Publishes 'Sleep of Reason' Essay on Philosophical Imaginary
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Afterall Journal's 50th issue features an essay titled 'Sleep of Reason: An Atlas of the Philosophical Imaginary,' co-authored by Dehlia Hannah, Ala Roushan, Nadim Samman, and…
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Yuk Hui and Adeena Mey on Cybernetisation of Exhibitions
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In an essay published in Afterall Journal Issue 53, titled 'Medium/Metaphor/Milieu', Yuk Hui and Adeena Mey examine the exhibition as a medium and the cybernetisation of…
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Laura Mulvey on Max Ophüls's 'Lola Montès' in Afterall Issue 35
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Laura Mulvey's essay 'Compulsion to Repeat: Max Ophüls’s ‘Lola Montès’' was published on February 7, 2014, as part of Afterall Journal Issue 35. The full text is accessible only…
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Lubaina Himid's Cotton.Com Explored in Afterall Essay by Griselda Pollock
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Griselda Pollock's essay 'How the political world crashes in on my personal everyday': Lubaina Himid's Conversations and Voices: Towards an Essay About Cotton.com was published in…
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Afterall Journal 51 Explores Isolation in Aotearoa Art Practices
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The essay 'The Imagination of Isolation: On Current Practices in Aotearoa' by Remco de Blaaij was published on 11 April 2021 as part of Afterall Journal 51. The full text is…
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