“From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures” A Screening Series
Artists reflect upon the role infrastructures of energy play in implementation of (geo)politics and emphasize the effects that exerts on the environment.
A New Materiality: Neri Oxman’s Craft for the Biological Age
The exhibition Neri Oxman: Material Ecology shows the architect’s practice at the intersection of nature and computation. Her dynamic approach, though rooted in the modernist tradition, brings together material science, digital fabrication technologies, and organic design.
Post-Catastrophic Museums of Care
In an effort to consider the variegated impacts of COVID-19—a virus with a global reach—post interviewed Zdenka Badovinac about how the pandemic has affected conceptions and practices of programming, civic engagement, and care.
Forms of Care: Guadalupe Maravilla’s Disease Thrower #5 and Circle Serpent
The performative installation made by Salvadoran American artist Guadalupe Maravilla, recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, offers a ritual space both for disease and healing.
The Ever Young Photographer James Barnor
James Barnor (b.1929) is a pioneering figure in Ghanaian photography. He documented the decolonizing processes and realities of the postcolonial context in Ghana, as well as the diasporic, metropolitan life in London.
The Global Present
Achille Mbembe reflects on the global present and observes a recurring demand for durability in a planet in need of political and aesthetic repair.
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo in Conversation with Thomas J. Lax
In this conversation the two discuss Pilar’s artistic formation; her use of family lore and fabulation in her interventions into the silences of the state archive; and her interests in science and digital technology.
The Planetary: the Globes of Globalization and Global Warming
Is the globe of globalization the same as the globe of global warming?
Objects in Circulation
The panel examines historical cases of the migration of images and knowledge across cultures and temporalities.
Global Resonance, Belonging, and the Artist Abroad: Okamoto Tarō in Paris
Okamoto Tarō recollects his experiences in Paris between 1929 and 1940, discusses the Abstraction-Création movement and reflects on his time at the Sorbonne and Musée de l’Homme.
Poema Colectivo 2020
In the spirit of collectivity despite geographical distance, post invited contributions to create a “collective poem” based on the 1981 project Poema Colectivo Revolución by the artists’ group Colectivo 3.
Incommensurability and Untranslatability
The move to diversify art historical narratives is often accompanied by a search for commonalities. Instead addressing a need to acknowledge radical difference and untranslatability, each presenter in this panel approached the question of the incommensurable, interrogating tensions between a global approach and site-specific study.