C Magazine #154: "Gossip"

Issue 154

Gossip, as “unverified” information, has complex relations to power. As a historically maligned oral tradition, with gendered roots, it asks that we question our sources—who we trust and why—as well as who has been afforded belief or legitimization over others. In this issue, gossip takes various forms, from a mode of subversion under settler-colonial states to speculative fiction; it is revealed in the archives, in silence, and in its failures to resist authoritarian imaginings or institutional exploitation. After all, why do we gossip?

Features

Perpetual Scofflaws
byma ma and Jumana Manna

"Worlds appear from her big mouth": The Mutiny of Online Open Letters
bySteph Wong Ken

Gossipy Scraps, Gossip(ing) Archives
byEmily Guerrero

We Should Talk: Obvious Truths About Working in the Arts
byMarsya Maharani and Petrina Ng

Gossip After Dictatorship
byAlex Quicho

The Injunction to Forget: documenta fifteen and the Test of Memory
byRouzbeh Shadpey

Artist Projects

Chäshu̧ Kadini (Say That Again) by Cole Pauls: Text
byWhess Harman

Columns

Composition: Full Moon Ritual
byRuth Marsh

One Thing: Silences in Death of an Artist
byLaurel V. McLaughlin

Reviews

Moune Ô — Maxime Jean-Baptiste
byYasmina Price

Emanations — Prathna Lor
byFan Wu

Horse Opera — Moyra Davey
byAaditya Aggarwal

“ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Vers chez soi / Towards Home” — asinnajaq, Carola Grahn and Ingemar Israelsson, Geronimo Inutiq, Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Futurecasting: Indigenous-led Architecture and Design in the Arctic
byCharissa von Harringa

“Codes of silence” — Shirley Bruno, Aleesa Cohene, Caroline Monnet, Cauleen Smith “Sunny Side Up and other sorrowful stories” — Mike Bourscheid
byYasmine Whaley-Kalaora

For Zitkála-Šá — Raven Chacon
byIV Castellanos

“I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality” — Eglė Budvytytė, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Celina Eceiza, Adham Faramawy, Mounir Fatmi, Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, Luis Jacob, Lynne Marsh...
byJayne Wilkinson

“JUNK IS NO GOOD BABY” — Justin Chance, Nina Hartmann, Lyric Shen, Mike Yaniro
bySasha Cordingley

“THREE SONGS” — Laura Taler
byRhiannon Vogl

“Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice” — Buseje Bailey, Marie Booker, Claire Carew, Grace Channer, DZI..AN, Khadejha McCall, Mosa McNeilly, Chloe Onari, Barbara Prézeau Stephenson, Winsom Winsom
byKristin Moriah