DARA BIRNBAUM (A) Turning the Media Against Itself Michelle Kuo, Rahel Aima, and Emmanuel Olunkwa in conversation (B) I Fought Like Fucking Hell to Get Out of the Black Box Dara Birnbaum, Hito Steyerl, and Stuart Comer in conversation
ANDREA BRANZI (A) A Ribbon Running Through Andrea Branzi in conversation with Alessandro Rabottini (B) La Gioconda Sbarbata (The Shaved Mona Lisa, 1972) by Andrea Branzi (from Casabella, no. 363, March 1972)
LALA RUKH (A) Reading Lala Rukh by Saira Ansari (B) Interviews, Past and Present by Mariah Lookman
JULIE BECKER (A) The Delirium of Digression by Sabrina Tarasoff (from Mousse #76, Summer 2021) (B) Outside the Vitrine (Julie Becker, Sparkle Woman) by Mark von Schlegell (from Mousse #76, Summer 2021)
VAGINAL DAVIS (A) Vaginal Davis Troubles the Smile by Dodie Bellamy (from Mousse #79, Spring 2022) (B) The Royal We Vaginal Davis in conversation with Ron Athey (from Mousse #79, Spring 2022) (C) Anarchic Abundance, or The Art of Living by Amelia Jones (from Mousse #79, Spring 2022)
ROSEMARY MAYER (A) Nothing Independent of Its Circumstances by Wendy Vogel (from Mousse #73, Fall 2020) (B) Surroundings by Rosemary Mayer (from Art-Rite, no. 15, April 1977)
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHNYDER (A) Mister Neutral by Martin Herbert (B) On Schnyderian Art by Patrick Frey (from Parkett, no. 25, 1990)
ANITA STECKEL (A) Reconsidering Anita Steckel in the Age of Heteropessimism Wendy Vogel (B) Anita Being Anita Dodie Bellamy, Rachel Middleman, Betty Tompkins
MANHATTAN MARXIST: I’VE GOT PRINCIPLES, AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM, I’VE GOT OTHERS Estelle Hoy
PRIMITIVE MAN Amy Gerstler
TIDBITS (PART I) Jordan/Martin Hell by Alex Bennett Scott Covert by Sabrina Tarasoff Erin Calla Watson by Jennifer Piejko Stéphane Mandelbaum by Krzysztof Kościuczuk
The Margins of Events: Bruno Serralongue Elisa R. Linn, Lennart Wolff
SEYNI AWA CAMARA: Tale of Tales Eva Barois De Caevel
MELIKE KARA: Being without Ego Sohrab Mohebbi
Books Jenna Sutela
TIDBITS (PART II) Abbas Zahedi by Alessandro Rabottini George Tourkovasilis by Nicolas Linnert B. Ingrid Olson by Brit Barton Dala Nasser by Amy Jones
A River “The story here is that nothing happens. There is no resolution. Things disappear. People disappear. The earth changes. I wake up to write.” Lisa Robertson pens a narrative, part of an untitled novel in progress, about decline and invisibility as freedom. It centers on an aesthetics of decay, bodily and urban, through memories of water—specifically the flooding and ebbing of the Bièvre river.
The Depression Artist Through a writing process that offers a fractal poetics of AI and a glimpse into the future of literature, K Allado-McDowell and GPT-3—the latter an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text—coauthor a satirical account of an artist who, having abandoned their brushes in favor of NFTs, finds themselves stuck in a reclusive and stale existence until an unidentified, rhythmic pulse rouses them.
Basement Jazz In building an imaginary milieu for Dora Budor’s practice, Marina Vishmidt is drawn to the category of “infrastructure,” in the sense of both artists who poeticize or pattern voids into significant structure, and a transversal way of working that is attentive to the conditions of possibility in exhibition. In architectural, economic, linguistic, and organizational ways, Budor generates a transformation of gaps and absences.
Focus on: Fujiko Nakaya Big Talk Is Talking about the Weather Into Pure White Darkness: The Ecology of Fujiko Nakaya An early member of Experiments in Art and Technology and a crucial figure for Japanese video art, Fujiko Nakaya is mostly known for her sculptural and installation ecosystems using fog. Here, Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo, Astrida Neimanis, and Sarah Johanna Theurer discuss the artist’s environmental awareness, the poetics of the fog, and what it means to talk about the weather, while Reiko Setsuda retraces Nakaya’s collaborative and networked thinking. Nakaya’s approach does not objectify nature but treats the global environment as an organic ecosystem shaped by social, political, and technological relations.
Object-Oriented: Toward a Regeneration of Art Criticism as Literary Practice Could the key to art criticism’s present-future redemption be found in the past? Travis Jeppesen muses on the origins of critical commentary, guiding our way through the dispute opposing “art criticism” and “art writing.” Via an analysis of different categories, such as meta- and ficto-criticism, Jeppesen debunks how a “poetics of indeterminacy” may grace and empower a form of art writing that is a vanguard practice within the wider genre of art criticism.
The House in Which We Live Seamlessly moving from the page into sculpture, installation, and performance, and often focusing on histories of queer community, Caspar Heinemann responds to a short but significant period in British history with humor and irreverence, and with an intimate and melancholic material sensitivity. Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe reflects on Heinemann’s linguistic play with poetic negations and absences.
A Hypothesis of Resistance In the first of a series of five essays aimed at examining the temporalities of performance, defying and eclipsing the standardization that drives individual and collective bodies to perform toward an entirely metric-oriented future, Cally Spooner intertwines the psoas major muscle; Donald W. Winnicott’s studies on developmental psychology; motherhood; and chrononormativity.
Concrete Poetry Through installations that combine conceptual rigor with revolutionary poetry, Ignacio Gatica investigates the long shadow of neoliberalism in Chile. Harry Burke peruses how the weaknesses and contradictions of Chilean politics’ recent history interweave with Gatica’s practice, pointing to social movements whose demands extend beyond the constitutional forms of liberal democracy.
Tidbits: Céline Mathieu by Leila Peacock; Jerzy Bereś by Krzysztof Kościuczuk; David Moser by Laura McLean-Ferris; Ayo Akingbade by Faridah Folawiyo; Steph Huang by Olivia Aherne; Selma Selman by Arnisa Caterina Zeqo; Simon Lehner by Christina Lehnert; Deborah-Joyce Holman by Olamiju Fajemisin; Francisco Tropa by Simone Menegoi.
Featuring: Rahel Aima, Basma Alsharif, Robert Barry, Andrew Berardini, Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Nick Currie, Aria Dean, Kevin Jerome Everson, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, Orit Gat, Jarrett Gregory, Trix and Robert Haussmann, Jens Hoffmann, Adam Jasper, Stefan Kalmár, John Knight, Erkki Kurenniemi, Duane Linklater, Chus Martínez, Robertas Narkus, Kathy Noble, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andréa Picard, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Seth Price, Johannes Raether, Kitty Scott, Leilah Weinraub, Julia Weist, Elvia Wilk, Lantian Xie, Yan Xing.
Mousse magazine’s 58th issue is dedicated to the documenta 14 exhibition in Athens. Works and writings mirror documenta 14’s recognition that art cannot look past the current critical political situation. Mousse 58 include Kirsty Bell’s ‘Learning From Athens?’, a study of Moyra Davey’s work by Quinn Latimer, Hila Peleg’s article ‘Roee Rosen: The Political, The Private and The Erotic’, Irena Haiduk’s ‘Against Biography’, and Rasheed Araeen’s ‘Preliminary Notes for a Black Manifesto’.
A selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects that appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.
Featuring: Chantal Akerman; Cecilia Alemani; Jennifer Allen; Kai Althoff; Bruce Altshuler; Ed Atkins; Lutz Bacher; Darren Bader; Alex Bag; John Baldessari; Phyllida Barlow; Kirsty Bell; Andrew Berardini; Jonathan Berger; Michael Bracewell; Tom Burr; Maurizio Cattelan; Marc Camille Chaimowicz; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; Stuart Comer; Lauren Cornell; Nicholas Cullinan; Roberto Cuoghi; Nick Currie; Massimo De Carlo; Gino De Dominicis; Gigiotto Del Vecchio; Simon Denny; Brian Dillon; Jimmie Durham; Dominic Eichler; Peter Eleey; Matias Faldbakken; Luigi Fassi; Elena Filipovic; Morgan Fisher; Isa Genzken; Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi; Liam Gillick; Massimiliano Gioni; Isabelle Graw; Ed Halter; Jens Hoffmann; Judith Hopf; William E. Jones; Omar Kholeif; Alexander Kluge; Jiří Kovanda; William Leavitt; Élisabeth Lebovici; Andrea Lissoni; Helen Marten; Chus Martínez; Nick Mauss; Lucy McKenzie; Fionn Meade; Simone Menegoi; John Menick; Ute Meta Bauer; Massimo Minini; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Trevor Paglen; Stefania Palumbo; Francesco Pedraglio; Otto Piene; Laura Poitras; Elizabeth Price; Seth Price; Laure Prouvost; Alessandro Rabottini; Carol Rama; Filipa Ramos; Jason Rhoades; Dieter Roelstraete; Esperanza Rosales; Nicolaus Schafhausen; Fender Schrade; Stuart Sherman; Frances Stark; Jamie Stevens; Hito Steyerl; Sturtevant; Sabrina Tarasoff; Ana Teixeira Pinto; Oscar Tuazon; Giorgio Verzotti; Jan Verwoert; Francesco Vezzoli; Adrián Villar Rojas; Peter Wächtler; Ian Wallace; Klaus Weber; Cathy Wilkes; Christopher Williams; Jordan Wolfson.
IEVA MISEVIČIŪTĖ
Character Studies of Primeval Life Form
by Jacquelyn Ross
EXTEND, EXCEED, ENHANCE: PROSTHETICS AND SCULPTURE
by Lisa Le Feuvre
ANNE IMHOF
Choreographed layers
by Hans Ulrich Obrist
RAYMOND BOISJOLY, TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER, WALTER SCOTT
Native North America
by Andrew Berardini, Richard William Hill and Candice Hopkins
INSIDE TO OUTSIDE TO INSIDE
by Jens Hoffmann
NEW SCENARIO
Curating Holes
by Melanie Bühler
ROLE PLAY
by Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Thomas Demand, Barbara Bloom, Christian Jankowski, Elmgreen&Dragset, Michelle Grabner, Tobias Rehberger, Ugo Rondinone, Harrell Fletcher, John Miller, Paulina Olowska
RONALD JONES
What You See Is What You See
by Krist Gruijthuijsen
GARY INDIANA
I Can Give You Anything But Love
by Andrew Durbin
WILLA NASATIR
Psychic Junkyards
by Lauren Cornell
RAGNA BLEY
An Idiosyncratic Abecedary
by Filipa Ramos
NOAH BARKER
Projecting an Island from Another
by Mark Beasley
ISIAH MEDINA
The impossible is the only (no-)thing that ever happens
by Pia Bolognesi
ME
by Dieter Roelstraete
SHIFTING BACKGROUNDS
by Anselm Franke
NOBODY IS SLEEPING IN THE SKY
by Geoffrey Farmer and Dora García
NOW, I AM AFRAID…
by Chus Martínez
CECILIA BENGOLEA AND FRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD
Emotional Aesthetics
by Kathy Noble
MORAG KEIL AND GEORGIE NETTELL
Domestic Battlegrounds
by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
AN ESSAY ON DRESS-UP AND OTHER THINGS
by Sabrina Tarasoff
