ART PAPERS 30.02 - Mar/Apr 2006

In this issue Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy in the essay, Johanne Sloane immerses herself in Lynne Marsh's video installations, focussing on the role of avatars in these worlds and Philip Auslander follows Robin Rhode's performances from liveness to image and discerns a parallel shift in his persona in his essay Straight Outta Cape Town: Robin Rhode's Ghetto Liteness.

The editor's picks of notables shows are Information/Transformation, reviewed by Sarah McFadden, Part Object Part Sculpture, reviewed by Jennie Klein and Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, reviewed by Ginger Wolfe-Suarez.