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Artists at Work: Nicholas Mangan

Nicholas Mangan, Limits to Growth (2016/17), video still. Photograph: Roy H. Goss, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland; and LABOR, Mexico City

How Things Appear: the Staging of Perceiving and Knowing at the Helsinki Biennale 2023

Cultural theorist Olga Goriunova reviews The Helsinki Biennale 2023. Taking place on Vallisaari Island, HB23 juxtaposes modernity, indigenous worlds, and technology, and addresses themes of contamination, agency, and regeneration, emphasizing marginalised cultures and knowledge. Goriunova looks at how HB23 underscores the importance of alliances and collective world-building in navigating ecological and political challenges.

Representing the World, Weathering its End: Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s Ecology of the Ship

Marlon Miguel focuses on Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s many ship-shaped objects which, he suggests, function as symbolic markers of the transatlantic slave trade and the persistent climate of antiblackness in Brazilian society. Borrowing a neologism from poet Conceição Evaristo, Miguel names Bispo’s act of defiant self-inscription in a history that wanted to erase him an escrevivência, a writing to survive.

Arthur Bispo do Rosário, an Emblematic Art Brut/Outsider Creator

Edward Gómez situates Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s vast body of objects – a replica of the universe meant to endure the end of times – within the context of work by other outsider artists who have created unique, highly personal art at the margins of society.