Motherwell, Vol. 1 Triumphs and disasters

CONTENTS
I kneeled
Zachary James Johnston
The Incredible Shrinking Polack: Architecture, The Body, and Alienation in Modernist Polish Literature
Ania Szremski
Dream the American Dream in Dalhart
Sierra Pettengill
Berghain Boogie-Woogie
Karthik Pandian
"Making Do": Love, Language, and La Perruque in Nanna Debois Buhl's A New Space Within a Space
Beth Capper and Kelly Shindler
Kabul Diary
Louis Abelman
Belgianness and Tactical Nationhood
Bryce Dwyer
Tropian Bunker Builders and the Esoteric Roos of Brutalist Architecture
Brendan Threadgill
Get Closer, Go Blind: 1970s Video Art Against
Vision
Corinna Kirsch
Rehearsing Modernity
Ariel Pittman
FLAKTURM II: Lasting Cultural Effects of the Friedrichshain Flak Tower Fires
Sarah Stephenson
Ancient Art Agency
Josh Feola

Nota Bene
Art struggles with its inner demons, history.
Technology, hurbis, malaise. And while these horsemen are the harbingers of problems and debates, they are also the midwives of new forms, new futures.
The struggle excites us. In the destruction of a monument, the completion of an opus, or the unearthing of a relic, the relationship between the triumphant and the disastrous in art is enticing for its complex inability to be defined as either one or the other.
With a nod to this dynamic, I present to you MOTHERWELL VOL. I, Triumphs and Disasters. Contained herein are investigations and provocations born of and inspired by this theme, drawn from disciplines that come together under that ever-shifting cloudscape, CULTURE.
With careful attention to the importance of tactility in the act of reading, it is my hope that these pages find their way into your pockets, and that your fingers trace the words as you chart the pathways winding between each piece.
Paige K. Johnston, Editor
Summer/Winter 2009