All Roads Lead to Hendrix
Greg Tate‘s epic Hendrixian map hyperlinked to the hilt. As all roads veer off from Hendrix, guiding us toward whatever promised land, crossroads, or dystopia we may choose to imagine. It is as if all human history and mythology had conspired to deposit him on our doorsteps. This living embodiment of all our racial fears, […]
San Pedro V: The Hope I Hope
Identity, politics, rock ‘n roll, soap operas and sentimental songs; humor, hysteria and sincerity. Like a gender-errant Jimi Hendrix, Tracey Rose flips the biblical Battle of Jericho to confront history, oppression and injustice with a generous act of imagination that tears down walls and crosses boundaries of culture, language and difference. In 2005 Rose decided […]
The Afflicted Yard: The Rock
In 2004, the famously anonymous British artist Banksy visited Jamaica, and met Peter Dean Rickards, photographer, writer, provocateur and producer of The Afflicted Yard and First Magazine. Rickards had never heard of Banksy; he described him as a “a rude little guy with rat teeth who apparently felt very superior because he was famous for stencilling bunnies and rats back in […]
Salut Deleuze!
Culled from a comic book tribute to, and intellectual biography of, Gilles Deleuze by Martin Tom Dieck (art) and Jens Blazer (words). In this after-life the philosopher wrestles with his own theories (and fellow post-structuralists Foucault, Barthes and Lacan). Scroll down or, if you so wish, click on the first page then you can flick from left to right with the arrow […]
Did You Kiss the Dead Body?
Two in one: firstly Rajkamal Kahlon introduces her project, Did You Kiss the Dead Body?, then as previously appeared in Kahlon’s book Double Vision, Lalitha Gopalan offers an in depth and visceral essay describing her encounters with the work, entitled Blow me a Kiss, Rajkamal Kahlon! On September 11, 2012, I began serving as the Artist-In-Residence at the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security […]