ART PAPERS 42.03 - Fall 2018

"Continuing with our yearlong “Art of the Built Environment” explorations, this issue of ART PAPERS looks to Borders and Barriers. Borders serve the hegemonic imperative to etch a line between an us and a them. Barriers enforce/reinforce the divide between insider and outsider. As such, borders, and the constructed barriers that inscribe them, serve to mediate difference toward legibility. They often get drawn where difference is most contested—girded when the ruling order is threatened, militarized when a threat grows stronger. Borders possess a logic that is reproduced at multiple scales and through multiple applications—whether the fence that divides neighbors, the walls that demarcate contested or occupied nation-state divides, or the politicization of the spaces between us."

—Interim Editor Sarah Higgins, "Letter from the Editor," ART PAPERS Fall 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Imaginary Lines: A Constellation of Thoughts About Art and Borders
By Humberto Moro

Symbolic (Dis)Possession: On Jerusalem, Tupac, and the False Promise of a Virtuous Reality
By Reema Salha Fadda

New Frontiers: Current Developments in London Highlight the Politics of ‘Creative Quarters’
By Chris Fite-Wassilak

Condomillennium
Artist Project by Aaron Gemmill

Poems
By Safia Elhillo

St. Louis: Navigating the Brick City
By TK Smith

Digital Collage Title TK
Artist Project by Kahlil Irving

Out of Beirut
By Omar Kholeif  

Valley Visionaries: Gilda Davidian, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, and Meldia Yesayan
Interview by Sara Wintz

Reviews

ATLANTA
Outliers: High Museum
Floyd Hall  

COPENHAGEN
Law Shifters: Stine Marie Jacobsen
Anna Nelson-Daniel

NEW YORK
Failure Detection: Julia Phillips
Re’al Christian  

PALERMO
Manifesta 12
Teresa Retzer  

ISTANBUL
The Universe Flickers
Stephanie Bailey                 

SALZBURG
Anna Boghiguian
Christoph Chwatal

POUGHKEEPSIE
M. Lamar: American Cuck
Sally Hansell  

Glossary
Borders (n.)