Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs I Want, 2023, performance still, MOCA LA. Image courtesy of WORKSHOP. Oh how I love a mask. How it allows for simultaneity of identities, the power to invoke and evoke. Multiple personas can come to party in one…
Author: avantika
Our Heads Unmade and Remade
Jess Perlitz Masks can turn us into beasts, gods, and kings. They propose the fantasy, even if just fleeting, of our being something else. Masking is an act of concealment that makes identity illegible, a transgressive undertaking to seek agency…
Parts, Not Whole
Erik Geschke All images by and courtesy the artist. I find inspiration in the many ways the head is portrayed, both historically and in popular culture. Their depictions are ubiquitous, frequently disembodied, in selfies on social media, emblazoned on money…
construct-de-construct
Karl Burkheimer On a spring morning in 1991 I set up my tripod and attached a well-worn secondhand Nikon fitted with a borrowed motor drive and telephoto lens. Thanks to a friend of a friend, I was well situated to…
A Conversation
Vishwa Shroff with Avantika Bawa “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” – Paul Klee In May 2022, Avantika Bawa and Vishwa Shroff went walking in Basel, Switzerland, home of several well-known Brutalist buildings, as well as…
Sharpen’er Eras’er
Gabriela Jauregui Sharpenâer Just a Shard Just â Splinter Erasâer Bubble or Stubble Rubble Gabriela Jauregui (b. Mexico city) is a writer, translator and editor. Her first novel Feral is forthcoming from Sexto Piso in Mexico and Spain. She is…
(un)built
Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing. âGordon Matta-Clark The ubiquitous built environment is the residue of an exuberant, provisional act of cajoling space through the manipulation of matter. This futile praxis of resisting natural forces while…
Ahora: La Isla
Gabriela Jauregui ÂżPorquĂ© hacemos todo esto? ÂżPara vengarnos? No, porque todavĂa queremos amar con pasiĂłn. Wajdi Mouawad, Incendios (trad. Humberto PĂ©rez Mortera) O izcatqui in ohtli tictocaz, ihuin tinemiz, y: ihuiin yn otechmozcaltitiaque, in moteciiotzitzihuan, in totecuyoan, in cioapipiltin, in…
Clipping-out Inside Arcadia: Reflections on a Quarantine Gothic
Malcolm Doidge (fig.1) Malcolm Doidge, Inside Arcadia: The Vestibule, 2022, photogrammetry 3D model and clipping plane. Image courtesy the artist. âCutting off the outer edges or boundaries of a word, signal or image.â (n.d) For gamersâanyone wearing an immersive, virtual…
Intentional Misregistration
Shara Chwaliszewski Students from the MFA Print Media program and Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research, PNCA. Photo courtesy of the artist. âI like how the registration kind of goes off here,â Chris Chandler explains, leaning as he…