THE END IS NIGHT

by Alison M. Gingeras & Jamieson Webster

The Importance of Being Anal by Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

“Dear Alison,
Why did you publish a picture of your ass in Artforum? I mean did you think there was something impor- tant about being anal? Was it a kind of “kiss my ass” moment? Or was it simply fate, given your name and all?
Much love,
The Psychoanalyst

Dear Jamieson,
Did you become a psychoanalyst because of the ANAL in analysis? Love,
Alison Gingerass”

 

– This text appears in Spike #60. You can buy it in our online shop –

The End is Night

Discourse
paul (from bible),  Angel River Existence, from “The River”   (2021)

paul (from bible), Angel River Existence, from “The River” (2021)

We Are Speaking To Existence

Substack bloggers, Soundcloud rappers, and podcasters cull transient strangeness from the corners of the internet in a new kind of archive, epitomised by the entity that calls itself Angelicism01.

Discourse
Vlada Ralko,  The Dove Makes Peace  (2022)

Vlada Ralko, The Dove Makes Peace (2022)

The Digital Fog of War

What happens when propaganda pushes post-truth directly onto the battlefield? Milena Khomchenko, a writer from Kyiv, reflects on the “informational front” of the war in Ukraine.

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Cassidy Grady in  Dimes Square  (2022)

Cassidy Grady in Dimes Square (2022)

Down and Out in Dimes Square

A new play by Matthew Gasda takes on the politics and power-plays of a notorious Lower East Side locale. 

Discourse
Collage by Lina Romanukha (2022)

Lina Romanukha, The Motherland Power (2014). Collage on paper

Notes on One War

Lina Romanukha, a curator and cultural worker from Kyiv, Ukraine, shares diary entries from her daily life during the early days of war.

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Opening of “Full of Love and Contradiction” at Asbestos. Photo: Josh Krum and Aden Miller

Opening of “Full of Love and Contradiction” at Asbestos. Photo: Josh Krum and Aden Miller

Art Scene: Melbourne

Assemblage art, post-punk, parties, laundries, and literal trash curated with love. Artist George Egerton-Warburton pens a guide to the Melbourne art scene.

Discourse
Henryk Streng/ Marek Włodarski, Childhood Memories (1924). Henryk Streng was born in Lwów, Poland (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) in 1903. In 1942 he destroyed all of his documents and acquired new papers under the name of “Marek Włodarski.”

Henryk Streng/Marek Włodarski, Childhood Memories (1924). Henryk Streng was born in Lwów, Poland (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) in 1903. In 1942 he destroyed all of his documents and acquired new papers under the name of “Marek Włodarski.”

The Downward Spiral: Europe

Dean Kissick corresponds with two young arts workers from Ukraine, who share firsthand accounts of the war that is currently unfolding.

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Han Mengyun, The Pavilion of Three Mirrors (2021). Oil on canvas, 3 polished-steel pavilions, 17 × 11 m; steel pavilions

Marwah AlMugait, This Sea Is Mine (2021). Live performance, 3-channel video installation, 13'42"

Abdullah Al Othman, Manifesto: The Language & City (2021). Neon, LED, found wooden signage, 8 × 5 m. Commissioned by Diriyah Biennale Foundation

Feeling the Stones: The First Diriyah Biennale

11 December 2021 – 11 March 2022
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At-Tuarif. © Diriyah Gate Development Authority

At-Tuarif. © Diriyah Gate Development Authority

Diriyah Biennale, Between the Lines

Stephanie Bailey visits Saudi Arabia’s first contemporary art biennial – helmed by a curator borrowed from Beijing – as connections between the Chinese and Saudi scenes, and intriguing geopolitical questions, come into view.

Discourse
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,  A Concentration  (2018)

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Concentration (2018)

The Blackpilled Quotidian

A wave of figurative paintings, by black painters and focused on black subjects, has spawned a ubiquitous new style – but has market pressure pushed artists’ radical intentions into something more palliative? 

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Hermann Nitsch, Schüttbild (2021). All photos courtesy Peres Projects

Cosmos of One

Legendary Viennese avante-gardist Hermann Nitsch flies solo in a recent exhibition of paintings and drawings at Peres Projects, Berlin.

Discourse
Marjorie Livingston, “The Aquarian Age: An Address”, delivered to the British College of Psychic Science (1932)

Marjorie Livingston, “The Aquarian Age: An Address”, delivered to the British College of Psychic Science (1932)

Distributed Autonomous Occultism

Magic is a technology of imagination, and technology is magic made tangible. What lessons do the stars have in store heading into 2022?  

"Talk remains cheap – which doesn’t mean we should buy it"

-Ella Plevin

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