Contact About Privacy policy Directory. Editorials Features Reviews. July 8, — Review. In , when she was 12, the Vlora, a hijacked cargo ship carrying some twenty thousand Albanian refugees, unexpectedly docked in the Italian port city of Bari, near where Biscotti grew up.
Many of the economic refugees were housed in a disused stadium. Skirmishes with Italian authorities ensued, resulting both in the refugees being repatriated and stricter border policies being implemented. Take Clara , a sculptural installation …. July 4, — Review. Novuyo Moyo. It narrates the series of tragedies that follows when the Fanes—the indigenous people of the Dolomites—betray a pact with their animal allies, the marmots. The Kingdom of Fanes —a national epic that roams across Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East—informs an exhibition that dwells on themes of interspecies relations, communal identity, and collaboration.
As a place where people, cultures, and languages meet German, Italian, and to a lesser extent, Ladin—the language of the Fanes—are used interchangeably , the Dolomite mountains on the border of Italy and Austria provide the ideal backdrop for these reflections. Beraha picks up the …. July 3, — Editorial. The Editors. Once a week I stand in front of a work of art in order to write about it. This exercise, designed to keep my eye in, has certain constraints. The text must be written in the presence of the work, in a single sitting, and without recourse to external resources.
Not the least consequence of this workout has been the revelation of my own ignorance when denied access to online dictionaries what is it called again when you scratch marks into oil paint?
But the most relevant here is how difficult it is for any visitor to spend a long time looking at things in exhibition spaces: I am endlessly being told by invigilators to keep moving, to get up from the floor, to stop obstructing the flow. Last week, for instance, I visited another of those group shows dedicated to queering an abstract noun. The final room contained a standing speaker playing spoken word and music, an incense burner, and a dozen books of theory arranged as if to be read.
