‘How the political world crashes in on my personal everyday’: Lubaina Himid’s Conversations and Voices: Towards an Essay About Cotton.com

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.

POLITICS INC.

In a text appearing for the first time in English translation, Brazilian philosopher Vladimir Safatle describes the function of art as an opening that allows the (metaphorical) breaking of bodies, so that new circuits of affects might appear in place of fossilised formations. Building on Freud, Safatle sees in the production of new affective circuits the possibility of political emancipation.

Access as Generative Site: in conversation with Christine Sun Kim

Over this conversation, Christine Sun Kim generously unpacks ‘access’ in its many iterations: the persisting ableism in art institutions, the multifaceted role of access riders, the richness and complexity of American Sign Language (ASL) and how to simultaneously engage deaf and non-deaf audiences.

Voicing: Imogen Stidworthy's Practice of Exodus

Eleni Ikoniadou focuses on Imogen Stidworthy’s work with Iris Johansson, a therapist and writer on the autistic spectrum who was non-verbal until the age of twelve. In Stidworthy’s filmic set-ups, Johansson becomes a mediator or translator between verbal and non-verbal modes of communication.