Born in 1997, the British writer Jo Hamya is the author of two novels, Three Rooms (2021) and The Hypocrite (2024), as well as a short story, “Osmosis,” published in Necessary Fiction in 2020. She works…
Spring with its promise of winter….And it is December again,the snow outside. Or is it June full of sun — John Ashbery, “The Skaters” : : Nathaniel Dorsky’s silent, 45-minute avant-garde film, Hours for Jerome (1982),…
This conversation with the artist Maria Gaspar centers thinking about the relationship between art and protest, visual offerings, and an abolitionist aesthetics of possibility. We speak about avenues of liberation that emerge when we broadcast the…
Tania Ximena’s (Mexico b. 1985) La marcha del liquen (The Stride of Lichen, 2024) is a 29-minute experimental short that quietly unsettles our assumptions about distance, time, and environmental crisis. Shot in Yokot’an and Spanish, with Spanish…
Maisha Maene’s short film Mulika (2022) opens with slow-moving shots of a desolate landscape. Filmed on the slopes Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and largely captured…
I. Shuffle. In the history of music technology, this small button integrated into the Apple iPod in the early 2000s significantly changed the way we listen to music. Unbundled across artist, genre, region, and time period,…
In the 2025 installation “Shore|Lines,” exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, Illinois, artist Regina Agu uses “the methodology of landscape panorama” to examine connections between the Black communities of the Gulf South…
The past decade has seen a significant shift in the presentation of art that emerges as part of, rather than bearing witness to, social movements. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, and stakeholder communities have increasingly worked together…
This Provocation reflects on Renee Hudson’s Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas. Latinx Studies practitioners have long grappled with our field imaginary, and Hudson’s book offers one of the richest elaborations of what…
