Summer 2023 - Refusal, Renewal

Forms of refusal—such as blocking, resting, stalling, and withholding—are returning to the foreground as strategies for change and resistance. Such practices, importantly, draw upon and continue a historical legacy of Black and Brown resistance against white supremacy. This issue explores forms of artistic refusal, ranging from political action to exuberant evasion. It looks at art and exhibitions that acknowledge conditions of widespread fatigue, ableism, burnout, and resource exhaustion through a lens of rejuvenation, collectivity, and embrace.

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Table of Contents:

Masking Practice

Kelly Taylor Mitchell with Sarah Higgins

Stubborn Materialism

Stoppages, Blocks, and Piles

Gabriel Cira 

with accompanying images of works by Ang Li

Sweat Equity

Chase Hall with Sarah Higgins

Artist Project

WON’T (after Freak Nasty’s Da Dip, Oliver Jeffers’s Dipped Paintings, Allen Ginsberg’s America, & Titus Khaphar’s Jerome XXVII)

danilo machado

Making Time—Mildred Thompson’s Magnetic Fields 

Sherae Rimpsey 

Reviews

1–5

1. NOTTINGHAM, UK

Carolyn Lazard: Long Take 

Kit Edwards

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2. ST. LOUIS

Counterpublics

Cathy Byrd

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3. ATLANTA

Lonnie Holley: The Eyes Were Always on Us

Malik Jalal

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4. LOS ANGELES

Coded 

Cinqué Hicks

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5. AUSTIN

EAMON ORE-GIRON: Competing With Lightning / Rivalizando Con El Relámpago 

Barbara Purcell

Glossary

Athleticism (n.)

Jerron Herman