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March 23, 2026

Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase

Edited by Michael Dango

Performance by Isabella Mireles Vik within Anahita Bradberry’s exhibition, Spectral Field, October 22, 2025, at the ASAP/16 open reception at DiverseWorks at MATCH. Photo: Jeff Segura / Co-Create Strategies. Image courtesy of the artists and DiverseWorks.

The Articles

Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase

By Michael Dango

Luminous Opacity: Anahita Bradberry’s “Spectral Field”

By Moya Li

Transfiguring the Human: A Speculative (Un)Becoming: On Makeda (Christopher Paul)

By Istifaa Ahmed

Earthwork as Futurity: Ida Aronson and the Nanih Bvlbancha Project

By Waleska Solorzano

Operatic Dreaming: On Lisa E. Harris

By Thea Ballard

The Possibility of Movement: On Kristina Kay Robinson

By Sarah Buckner

An Alternative Lexicon for Living: Lovie Olivia’s “Black Material Story”

By Tara M. Holman

Communities of Liquid Care and Poetic Embodiments: Upon Review in the Works of JD Pleucker, Mariposa Tejada, M. Miranda Maloney, and Stalina Villarreal

By Jered Mabaquiao

Archiving Queer Futures: On Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin

By Zora Duncan

Saúl Hernández Vargas’s Transborder Relics

By Paloma Checa-Gismero