e-flux podcast

e-flux journal editors Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, and Kaye Cain-Nielsen discuss 10 years of e-flux journal. Excerpt from the editorial of  e-flux journal issue #95— WONDERFLUX : In November 2008, the editorial for issue #00 said: Historically, more than any single institution, art publications have been primary sites for discourse surrounding the artistic field. And yet most r...

e-flux journal editors Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, and Kaye Cain-Nielsen discuss 10 years of e-flux journal. Excerpt from the editorial of  e-flux journal issue #95— WONDERFLUX : In November 2008, the editorial for issue #00 said: Historically, more than any single institution, art publications have been primary sites for discourse surrounding the artistic field. And yet most r...

Recorded after the publication of e-flux journal issue 81 in April 2017, Xin Wang reads and discusses her text " Asian Futurism and the Non-Other " with Stephen Squibb. Xin Wang is a curator and art historian based in New York. She recently participated in e-flux journal 's feminism(s) double issue launch with Martha Rosler, McKenzie Wark, and Elvia Wilk. Past curatorial projects include Lu Yang:...

In this week's episode of the e-flux podcast, Brian Kuan Wood reads his piece, " The Story of Peter Green Peter Chang ," published in February, 2017 as part of e-flux Architecture's Superhumanity project at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial. Brian Kuan Wood is a writer and an editor of e-flux journal .

Following a symposium titled Technology is History , in association with the exhibition One Hand Clapping at the Guggenheim, curator Xiaoyu Weng and Brian Kuan Wood join Yuk Hui to discuss his work. The conversation was followed by a talk by Yuk Hui at e-flux titled " What Begins After the End of Enlightenment? " Text mentioned in the conversation: 30 Years after Les Immatériaux - Art, Science and...

Simone White and Judah Rubin discuss White's recent text, " or, on being the other woman ," published in e-flux journal issue #92 on feminisms. The conversation followed a recent duo lecture at e-flux with Mirene Arsanios and Simone White. Simone White 's most recent book is Dear Angel of Death , published in spring 2018. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Judah R...

Julieta Aranda and Liam Gillick join Lawrence Weiner in his New York studio for a conversation spanning art education and cosmetic dentistry. Julieta Aranda is an artist and Editor of e-flux journal .  Liam Gillick is an artist living in New York. Read Liam Gillick in e-flux journal . Lawrence Weiner is an artist born in 1942 in New York, NY, where he lives and works today.

Mary Walling Blackburn discusses her text, " Sticky Notes, 1-3 ," published in e-flux journal #92—"on feminisms" (Summer 2018), with editor-in-chief Kaye Cain-Nielsen. "The video editing suite sat directly across from 1607 Broadway. My mother's boyfriend was editing a sequence of two figures fighting with long sticks. They were aiming for one another's heads. Each man, in turn, carefully swung his...

Mirene Arsanios discusses her text, " E Autobiography di un Idioma ," published in e-flux journal #92—"on feminisms" (Summer 2018) . In conversation with editor-in-chief Kaye Cain-Nielsen. "I would have liked to come to you (abo) with something more reliable, like documents (akto), but I'm an oral language (idioma)—an Afro-Portuguese proto-creole developed on the western coast (kosta) of Africa an...

Eva Díaz discusses her essay " We Are All Aliens " published in  e-flux journal  issue 91 (May 2018) with contributing editor Elvia Wilk. " For some, contemporary art has become a kind of alt-science platform for research and development projects that offer alternatives to the corporate control and surveillance of outer space. Artists working on issues about access to space are at the front line o...

Journalist and author Masha Gessen discusses ways of surviving an autocracy. Rule #1? Believe the autocrat. For this week's episode of the e-flux podcast, we are featuring Masha Gessen's lecture, " How We Survive an Autocracy ," originally given on May 24, 2017 as part of an ongoing e-flux lectures series dedicated to discovering the protocols of twenty-first century truth, assuming that these sti...

Elvia Wilk and Rachel Ichniowski discuss issues of power abuse in the artworld. The conversation references Elvia's recent essays " The Grammar of Work " and " No More Excuses ," both published by frieze . Elvia Wilk is a writer and contributing editor to e-flux journal. You can read another essay published in April 2018, " Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? " in e-flux Architecture's initiative...

Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe) on the occasion of the launch of their book The Empire Remains Shop   at e-flux . In conversation with e-flux journal Art Director and artist Mariana Silva. "Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever ope...

David Kim and Yazan Khalili discuss Yazan's video, Hiding Our Faces Like a Dancing Wind ,   currently on view in the exhibition Being: New Photography 2018  at MoMA through August 19, 2018. "How do we disappear in the digital age? This is a project that works with the facial recognition technologies in smart devices and its historical background in the colonial practices." A segment of the video c...

Artist Keren Cytter discusses past and future projects on the occasion of the premiere of her film Middle of Beyond at e-flux. In conversation with Josh Altman.  Middle of Beyond  blends fiction, news clips, and animation recounting ten days in the life of Malte Krumm, a month after the latest US elections. The film depicts the numbness of a world flooded by information and social media activity,...

Dena Yago discusses her essay " Content Industrial Complex ," published in e-flux journal issue 89 (March 2018), with editor-in-chief Kaye Cain-Nielsen. "What is an artist to do? With an understanding of how our content, identities, and influence are valuable to and instrumentalized by brands and marketers, we can find space for resistance and refusal, or we can actively engage with existing model...

Artists and filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh and Adam Khalil in conversation.  Peggy Ahwesh is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. She has produced a range of work since the 1980s challenging traditional forms of film and video, and investigating cultural identity and the role of the subject. Ahwesh's work has been the subject of several museum retrospectives and is screened worldwide, inc...

Zach Blas in conversation with Laurel Ptak, Art in General's Executive Director & Curator, on the occasion of Blas's exhibition  Contra-Internet  at Art in General and his lecture-performance  Metric Mysticism  at e-flux. Zach Blas is an artist and writer whose practice confronts technologies of capture, security, and control. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Gol...

e-flux founder, journal editor, and artist Anton Vidokle discusses cosmism with Kaye Cain-Nielsen, editor-in-chief of e-flux journal . You can read more on cosmism in the 88th issue of e-flux journal  (February 2018). Featuring texts by Robert Bird, Maria Chehonadskih, Keti Chukhrov, Boris Groys, Trevor Paglen, Alexei Penzin, Marina Simakova, Arseny Zhilyaev, and a Timeline of Russian Cosmism comp...

Elizabeth A. Povinelli discusses four axioms of critical theory in response to her presentation, " Toxic Assets the the Extimacy of Existence ," from Frontier Imaginaries Ed. No3 at e-flux. In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb. Read Elizabeth A. Povinelli in e-flux journal : " Geontologies: The Concept and Its Territories " from issue 81, April 2017 " Geontologies: The Figures and th...

Vivian Ziherl discusses her curatorial platform Frontier Imaginaries  on the occasion of  TOXIC ASSETS: Frontier Imaginaries Ed. No3  at e-flux, Columbia University, and UnionDocs in October 2017. In conversation with journal editor Brian Kuan Wood. Watch day one of TOXIC ASSETS on e-flux film & video Read Vivian Ziherl's essay " The Fourfold Articulation " in  e-flux journal #81, April 2017

McKenzie Wark on her essay, " My Collectible Ass ," published in the 85th issue of e-flux journal , October 2017. In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb.