Mar / Apr 2015 Issue
“Ruin”

Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Walking the city streets offers the unexpected. I find interesting things, mostly garbage, some of it recently thrown away. My discoveries come in two parts: first, the reaction of surprise, …

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone is an ongoing research project that has different extensions; previously it has been shown as a multiscreen video and sound installation at the New Art Exchange and the …

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

The artist Kameelah Rasheed was twelve years old in 1998, when her family—mother, father, and four brothers—had lost their home. The value of land in northern California near East Palo …

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Collapse: Abandoned to the indifference of physical nature, any neglected artifact disintegrates. Places too are social artifacts, architectural masses sustained in space by forms of life. When customs falter or …

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

During the spring of 2010, I spent several hours each day, usually unclothed, either standing, sitting, lying, or perching on a bicycle seat in the sixth-floor galleries of the Museum …

Elite Properties

by James Hannaham | Mar 25, 2015

Elite Properties

by James Hannaham | Mar 25, 2015

There are ruins, and then there are ruiners. Urban areas in the western hemisphere no longer develop organically—or with regard to geographical features or agricultural or even industrial needs—but rather …

The Catch

by Lex Brown | Mar 18, 2015

The Catch

by Lex Brown | Mar 18, 2015

I am a transplant to Los Angeles, I’m a person of color, and I live in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Witnessing and doing my best not to accelerate these changes, …

Rooms With A View

by Erin Sweeny | Mar 11, 2015

Rooms With A View

by Erin Sweeny | Mar 11, 2015

“Treat your body like it belongs to someone you love.” I spied this sentence in a health-food store recently. My thoughts wandered to catchphrases spouted in yoga classes, talking about …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low

by Clarinda Mac Low | Mar 3, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low

by Clarinda Mac Low | Mar 3, 2015

To be ruined is to be spoiled beyond repair. It is “downfall, complete destruction, overthrow.” Ruin is the Tower card in the tarot deck—upheaval and harsh displacement, lightning striking, an …

Offshore Art: Artistic Strategies in a Ruined Democracy

by Mikkel Rosengaard | Mar 2, 2015

Offshore Art: Artistic Strategies in a Ruined Democracy

by Mikkel Rosengaard | Mar 2, 2015

The term post-democracy has recently emerged in political theory and sociology as part of an effort to grasp the contemporary social order. The term is used by theorists such as …

Three Muddled Blueprints for Ruin

by Anwar Batte | Mar 2, 2015

Three Muddled Blueprints for Ruin

by Anwar Batte | Mar 2, 2015

Please read the document that follows as a makeshift “program”, “manifesto”, “list of demands”, “wish list”, or “totally impenetrable academic nonsense” in favor of the moderately counterintuitive project of trying …