She Did It
Cajsa Von Zeipel

by Will Perkins

When given the opportunity, the leg room to reflect can burden the procrastinate soul to ruin. Put-off concerns clench and release, stumble into each other and clumsily spill over. In the wake of a crisis, while you struggle to hold onto a life both slipping and standing still, a leap…

Coercive Beliefs

BY MATT KENNY

1. Lynne Stewart, Present Fig. 1 The Advocate On March 7, 2017,
 less than four weeks after
 the Blind Sheikh died,
 Lynne Stewart, his former lawyer,
 passed away after a long struggle with breast cancer at seventy-seven years old. Before she died
 Stewart reflected on Omar Abdel-Rahman to the New…

Worst Orange

By Nate Lowman

An essay on the occasion of FUCK FRIENDS an exhibition by LEO FITZPATRICK at ASS, NEW YORK CITY, 2009 The title of this essay is stolen from the pages of a zine called “Leo listens to his body,” by Brian DeGraw and Dash Snow. It’s funny because Leo if from…

Can it be that it was all so simple then

By Bonnie Clearwater

Let’s follow Luis Gispert. He has recently premiered a new film called Rene. Shot in the genre of neorealism as a three-channel synchronized film, Rene records the daily routine of Rene, an old family friend of the filmmaker. Rene fled Cuba to Miami and works in a restaurant supply shop…

The Annotated Asger Jorn

By Glenn Adamson

“It seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are!” That’s Alice, through the looking-glass, where she discovers a book filled with backwards writing. Holding the pages up to a mirror, she is able to read the contents, a poem called “Jabberwocky.” ‘Twas…

The Waste Land

By T.S. Eliot

Fig. 1 The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over…

Island Life

By Andrew Durbin

EXPLORING JACOLBY SATTERWHITE’S ‘ISLAND OF TREASURE,’ THE MOST RECENT ENTRY IN HIS REIFYING DESIRE SERIES Drive it in between. —Grace Jones Fig. 1 Outside Jacolby Satterwhite’s studio, housed in a small office of One Liberty Plaza on a floor of studios managed by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, One World…

Double Layers

By Tom Burr

one – Hélio I’ve spent a lot of time considering the art of Hélio Oiticica. I’ve looked at his work for years, vaguely modeling certain gestures of my own in relation to specific objects he made, and events he staged. I’ve responded with admiration and affection to the intensely vivid…

Circling the Same

BY ALEX BUTLER

Fig. 1 I. BREAK THIS WAY empty sullen has its goal get something out of everything a demon after all would shake a baby like a rattle to try and comprehend the joy it brings sea to dust now lined with cracking veins and to dust all relation I have…

Remembrance of Things Past

BY SAMUEL JOHNSON

Men complain of nothing more frequently than of deficient memory; and, indeed, everyone finds that many of the ideas which he desired to retain have slipped irretrievably away; that the acquisitions of the mind are sometimes equally fugitive with the gifts of fortune; and that a short intermission of attention…

Bridge Time

BY CAROLYN L. KANE

These days no one has time to wait. Spare seconds, minutes, let alone half-hours and 45-minute sessions have become increasingly expensive in our high-speed, high-resolution, pay-per-download Wi-Fi culture. Everything must be NOW or it risks being at all. At least this is the ideology ushered in through e-commerce, mass media,…