READING LIST
Here you'll find a curated assortment of critical texts, exhibition reviews, blogs and miscellaneous other treasures from the Web hand-picked by KAPSULA staff. Consider these hyperlinked goods a "who's who" of contemporary issues we find revelant to our own mandate within art publishing.
Links are added and removed frequently to keep a fresh freed, so check back often.
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SARA
Morality Cuts: Uncovering Queer Urban Ecologies by Estraven Lupino-Smith
GutsMagazine.ca
Accessed Aug 06, 2018
«http://gutsmagazine.ca/morality-cuts/»
Why the PDF Is Secretly the World's Most Important File Format by Ernie Smith
Motherboard.Vice.com
Accessed Mar 14, 2018
«https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-worlds-most-important-file-format»
Roy Spivey by Miranda July
NewYorker.com
Accessed Feb 23, 2018
«https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/11/roy-spivey»
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Use(ful/less) Schematics by Maxwell Hyett
DrainMag.com
Accessed Jan 16, 2018
«http://drainmag.com/usefulless-schematics/»
Women, Space, and Place: Four Cinematic Pairings by Amy Murphy
PlacesJournal.org
Accessed Nov 20, 2017
«https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/women-space-and-place-four-cinematic-pairings-2/»
Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm by Marina Warner
CabinetMagazine.org
Accessed Nov 3, 2017
«http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/12/warner.php»
The Personal Essay Isn't Dead. It's Just No Longer White. by Soraya Roberts
TheWalrus.ca
Accessed Oct 02, 2017
«https://thewalrus.ca/the-personal-essay-isnt-dead-its-just-no-longer-white/»
We Touch the Same Stuff: Queer Feminist Craft Praxis as Soft Circuitry by Melissa Rogers
NoMorePotlucks.org
Accessed Sep 12, 2017
«http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/we-touch-the-same-stuff-queer-feminist-craft-praxis-as-soft-circuitry-melissa-rogers/»
Other Minds by Gary Zhexi Zhang
Frieze.com
Accessed Aug 16, 2017
«https://frieze.com/article/other-minds»
Postcommodity Interviewed by Sadia Shirazi
CMagazine.com
Accessed July 23, 2017
«http://cmagazine.com/issues/134/postcommodity-interviewed-by-sadia-shirazi»
Face to Interface, Jenny Davis
RealLifeMag.com
Accessed Aug 28 2016
«http://reallifemag.com/face-to-interface/»
Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71
TheParisReview.org.
Accessed Aug 10 2016
«http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3439/the-art-of-fiction-no-71-joan-didion»
Excerpt of Fifteen Dogs, by André Alexis
TheNervousBreakdown.com.
Accessed Jun 8 2016
«http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbfiction/2015/04/
excerpt-of-fifteen-dogs-by-andre-alexis/»
Prac Crit, Jump-Cuts by Vidyan Ravinthiran
PracCrit.com.
Accessed Dec 22 2015
«http://www.praccrit.com/poems/jump-cuts/13/»
ZACH
Illness As Festival by Corinne Fitzpatrick
CanopyCanopyCanopy.com
Accessed July 24, 2018
«https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/illness-as-festival»
Paintings of Toxic Landscapes Where Politics and Aesthetics Are in Perfect Balance by Peter Malone
Hyperallergic.com
Accessed Mar 16, 2018
«https://hyperallergic.com/432354/greg-lindquist-lennon-weinberg-landscape-paintings-environmentalism-review/»
No Follow-Through by Gerry Canavan
LAReviewOfBooks.org
Accessed Feb 20, 2018
«https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-follow-through/»
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Red Rivers by Jessica Kolopenuk
NoMorePotlucks.org
Accessed Jan 14, 2018
«http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/red-rivers-jessica-kolopenuk/»
At Glasgow’s sonic-art biennial, gameplay becomes theatrical by Laura Robertson
Frieze.com
Accessed Nov 20, 2017
«https://frieze.com/article/glasgows-sonic-art-biennial-gameplay-becomes-theatrical»
Liberating the Female Monster from Sexploitation Cinema by Alice Bucknell
Sleek-Mag.com
Accessed Nov 3, 2017
«http://www.sleek-mag.com/2017/08/21/nature-of-the-hunt-auto-italia/»
SURVIVING IN THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACE OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE by Ryota Matsumoto
WildCulture.com
Accessed Sep 29, 2017
«http://www.wildculture.com/article/surviving-multidimensional-space-cognitive-dissonance/1665»
Seeing Red by Zack Hatfield
RealLifeMag.com
Accessed Sep 09, 2017
«http://reallifemag.com/seeing-red/»
#wanderingWilding by Aria Dean
Berfrois.com
Accessed Aug 27, 2017
«http://www.berfrois.com/2016/11/aria-dean-wanderingwilding/»
Open to Television by Lisa Henderson
NoMorePotlucks.org
Accessed July 27, 2017
«http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/open-to-television-lisa-henderson/»
Abnormal Encephalization in the Age of Machine Learning
e-flux.com
Accessed Sep 13 2016
«http://www.e-flux.com/journal/abnormal-encephalization-in-the-age-of-machine-learning/»
The Politics of Post-Representation, Hito Steyerl in conversation with Marvin Jordan
DISmagazine.com
Accessed Aug 28 2016
«http://dismagazine.com/disillusioned-2/62143/hito-steyerl-politics-of-post-representation/»
ART < WORK : Museum of The Fucking Future
MousseMagazine.it
Accessed Jul 26 2016
«http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=1070»
The Starship: Part I
Berfrois.com
Accessed Jul 18 2016
«http://www.berfrois.com/2015/09/the-starship-part-i-sarah-blake/»
What Would Feminist Data Visualization Look Like?
MIT.edu.
Accessed Jan 27 2016
«https://civic.mit.edu/feminist-data-visualization»
LINDSAY
Fatal Naming Rituals by Billy-Ray Belcourt
HazLitt.net
Accessed Aug 09, 2018
«https://hazlitt.net/feature/fatal-naming-rituals»
Absurdist Dialogues with Siri by Mariana Lin
TheParisReview.org
Accessed Mar 22, 2018
«https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/12/absurdist-dialogues-siri/»
Internets Past by Evgeny Morozov
CCA.QC.ca
Accessed Feb 20, 2018
«https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/issues/3/technology-sometimes-falls-short/55160/internets-past»
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Virtual Enemy at the MIT Museum by Wai Chee Dimock
LAReviewofBooks.org
Accessed Jan 15, 2018
«https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/virtual-enemy-mit-museum»
Reprogramming Decisionism by Luciana Parisi
e-flux.com
Accessed Nov 21, 2017
«http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/155472/reprogramming-decisionism/»
“The Science of Ghosts,” Jacques Derrida in Ken McMullen’s Ghost Dance
YouTube.com
Accessed Nov 3, 2017
«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nmu3uwqzbI»
Cruising’s Spectral Intimacies (Four Scenes) by Fan Wu
MICEMagazine.ca
Accessed Oct 12, 2017
«http://micemagazine.ca/issue-three/cruising’s-spectral-intimacies-four-scenes»
Critical Failure by Stephen Kearse
Hazlitt.net
Accessed Sep 11, 2017
«http://hazlitt.net/feature/critical-failure»
How TV Became Art
NewYorker.com
Accessed Aug 29, 2017
«http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-tv-became-art»
Skin On Skin On Skin
Rhizome.org
Accessed July 18, 2017
«https://anthology.rhizome.org/skinonskinonskin»
RE: Skin On Skin On Skin
Rhizome.org
Accessed July 18, 2017
«http://rhizome.org/editorial/2017/may/26/re-skinonskinonskin/»
What is Code? by Paul Ford
Bloomberg.com
Accessed Aug 10 2016
«http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/»
Overpopulation and Art: A reading by John Cage
Archive.org.
Accessed March 09 2016.
«https://archive.org/details/AM_1992_01_28»
29,771 days: On Kawara’s Workload
X-TRAonline.org.
Accessed Jan 30 2016.
«http://x-traonline.org/article/on-kawara/»
YOLI
Millennial art collectors are twice as likely as previous generations to view art as an asset class by Alexander Forbes
Artsy.net
Accessed Aug 20 2018
«https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-millennial-art-collectors-twice-previous-generations-view-art-asset-class»
Crossing Borders and Clearing the View in Marrakech by Rosalind Duguid
Elephant.art
Accessed Mar 20 2018
«https://elephant.art/marrakech/»
How Can We Address Centuries of Racism In Art? by Titus Kaphar
NPR.org
Accessed Feb 23 2018
«https://www.npr.org/2017/11/10/562836477/titus-kaphar-how-can-we-address-centuries-of-racism-in-art»
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New York City Commission Opts to Keep Columbus Statue, But Under New Conditions by Claire Voon
Hyperallergic.com
Accessed Jan 16 2018
«https://hyperallergic.com/421394/new-york-city-commission-opts-to-keep-columbus-statue-but-under-new-conditions/»
Barack Obama chooses artist Kehinde Wiley to produce official presidential portrait by Chris Baynes
Independent.co.uk
Accessed Nov 20 2017.
«http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/barack-obama-official-portrait-artist-kehinde-wiley-national-gallery-smithsonian-a8002691.html»
What Do Artists’ Final Works Say About Their Lives? by Christine Smallwood
NYTimes.com
Accessed Nov 3 2017.
«https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/t-magazine/art/artists-final-last-works.html»
The Fall’s Most Fascinating Art Show? The Met Trying to Fix Itself by Roberta Smith
NYTimes.com
Accessed Oct 02 2017.
«https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/arts/design/director-metropolitan-museum-search-daniel-weiss.html»
A Garden of Possibilities at the Palestinian Museum by Hrag Vartanian
Hyperallergic.com
Accessed Sep 11 2017.
«https://hyperallergic.com/397840/palestinian-museum-opens/»
Uncovered: how Polish artist-provocateur Natalia LL led a sexual rebellion behind the Iron Curtain
CalvertJournal.com
Accessed Aug 23 2017.
«https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/7339/natalia-ll-censorship-sex-feminism-art-poland»
Designing Resistance in Poland by Christian Petersen
ArtSlant.com
Accessed Aug 10 2017.
«https://www.artslant.com/trn/articles/show/48293-designing-resistance-in-poland-how-a-simple-poster-became-a-viral-symbol-of-protest»
Gilbert and George unveil their ten commandments
TheArtNewspaper.com
Accessed Jul 18 2016.
«http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/gilbert-and-george-unveil-their-ten-commandments/»
How a Fabrication Differs from a Lie
LRB.co.uk.
Accessed Nov 5 2015.
«http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n08/mikkel-borch-jacobsen/how-a-fabrication-differs-from-a-lie»
Flatness Where There Should Be Depth: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Mistress America’
Hyperallergic.com.
Accessed Mar 23.
«http://hyperallergic.com/250215/flatness-where-there-should-be-depth-noah-baumbachs-mistress-america/»