BENEATH THE SKIN: NEW TRADITIONS BY SOL PERSONA
Paul Cunningham08.04.15
Paul Cunningham examines Pittsburgh’s Sol Persona, a solo project from Karter Schachner, for fans of Perfume Genius and How to Dress Well.
Ideal Home Noise (2): McCarthy, Zacchilli, Dylan
Jeff Jackson07.28.15
Jeff Jackson’s second installation of Ideal Home Noise rounds up new work from Tom McCarthy, Mickey Zacchilli, and Bob Dylan.
Half Out Where
Nicholas Grider07.23.15
How do we begin to talk about work that we can barely begin to identify the direction of?
More Than Love: A Review of Bound: An Ode To Falling In Love
Dalton Day07.16.15
“In the future (which isn’t too far off now, about fifty years or so, I’d guess), the scientists of the world will study love. ” Dalton Day reviews a new collaboration between Carolyn DeCarlo and Jackson Nieuwland.
Adjustment Disorder: On Reading Rob Halpern’s Common Place
Dodie Bellamy07.09.15
“Halpern filters autopsy language through various lyrical and analytic modes, melding it with Whitman, Genet, Foucault, 19th century autopsy manual, Wikileaks document, de Sade, de Beauvoir, Alice Notley, Marx, Hegel, Baudelaire, etc.” Dodie Bellamy reviews.
The Patron Saint of the Impossible: Francesco Munzi’s Black Souls
Eric Nelson07.06.15
The latest film from Francesco Munzi appropriates mob culture, not through violence, but through moral strategy. Eric Nelson reviews.
The Road to Tar: Memory, Desire, & the Mouvement Panique in Jodorowsky’s Fando y Lis (1968)
Alex Gregor07.02.15
A look back at the stark, disorienting effect of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first full feature film, the seminal Fando y Lis.
Hidden Signals: A Review of Cynan Jones’s The Dig
Nathaniel Popkin06.18.15
The colliding lives of badger baiters and lamb birthers derive beautifully stark tension. Nathaniel Popkin reviews.
A Review of Ginger Ko’s Motherlover
Grace Shuyi Liew06.02.15
Exploring the long lineage of the aestheticizing of feminized suffering, via Ginger Ko’s Motherlover. Grace Shuyi Liew reviews.
Never Say Die
Jake Valento05.28.15
Jake Valento reviews What We Do In The Shadows, taking stock of the can-it-be-revived mockumentary format.
