Q/A Asad Raza

What would Édouard Glissant fight for?
by Asad Raza

"The idea of a community that lacks or eliminates relation is a profound misunderstanding of a community. It is an ineffable and untouchable climate; like the sea that connects the islands of an archipelago, it is a context." (Asad Raza)

– This text appears in Spike Art Quarterly #56. You can buy it in our online shop –

Things we like
Coco Mademoiselle Perfume by Seth Bogart

Coco Mademoiselle Perfume, Ceramics by Seth Bogart

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE KAITLIN PHILLIPS HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

The holidays are upon us once again, and for this month’s column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS’s forty closest friends have the perfect thing in mind. Links included and you should definitely open them all! 

Discourse
Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

Legacy Russell’s Glitch-y CyberSomatics, A Fourth Wave Feminist Manifesto

Discourse
Folio of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise from the Dispersed Falnama (Book of Omens), ca. 1550. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC.

Folio of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise from the Dispersed Falnama (Book of Omens), ca. 1550. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC.

The Downward Spiral: Centrist Dad Ouroboros

A lot’s changed in New York since we last heard from Dean Kissick in October. A president was elected and fresh plywood added to store façades, quickly blanketed in new graffiti hearts. Hope and the 5G conspiracy are pretty tricky things.

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Lorna Simpson, Woman on a Snowball , 2018. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy of the artist and Houser & Wirth; © Palazzo Grassi, photography Marco Cappelletti

Lorna Simpson, Woman on a Snowball, 2018. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy of the artist and Houser & Wirth; all images © Palazzo Grassi, photography Marco Cappelletti

“Untitled, 2020. Three perspectives on the art of the present” at Punta della Dogana, Venice

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Untitled , Hair, glue, 75 x 70 x 11 cm 

Untitled, Hair, glue, 75 x 70 x 11 cm 

The Things We Leave Behind

Michael E. Smith at the Vienna Secession

People
Installation view “On Adornments“, 2020, Spike Berlin

Installation view “On Adornments“, 2020, Spike Berlin

Between Friends – Interview with Marian Ivan & Olga Temnikova

Spike Berlin has been host to a collaborative show between Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn. Before the final days of the group show, we spoke to the gallerists about the situation in their home countries, and how the show “On Adornments” came together.

Discourse
Philip Guston, Riding Around , 1969.

Philip Guston, Riding Around, 1969, Oil on canvas, 137 x 201 cm; Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Falling Out: There’s No Place Like America Today

There’s been a debate raging about the postponement of a massive Philip Guston retrospective at four different museums. So, naturally COLIN LANG has to throw his yarmulke into the ring.

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Lady Gag with Hot Dog, Vanity Fair Shoot, New York, 2011

Lady Gag with Hot Dog, Vanity Fair Shoot, New York, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DARK TIMES. THEY'VE NEVER BEEN AS DARK AS NOW

In her new column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS gives us a few anecdotes about hot dog eating, boys who overvalue Continental Philosophy, and what happens when your friends start to hate you. What more could you ask for?    

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Galerie Crone, curated by Jakob Lena Knebl
Exhibition view, “Diskrete Simulation”, 2020 

Charim Galerie Wien, curated by Brigitte Huck
Exhibition view, “Murderkino” by Scott Cliford Evans, 2020

Charim Galerie Wien, curated by Brigitte Huck
Anna Jermolaewa, Filmset, Murderkino by Scott Cliford Evans, 2019

Highlights from curated by 2020, Vienna

Discourse
Pieter Schoolwerth,  Shifted Sims #13 (Covid-19 Expansion Pack) , 2020.

Pieter Schoolwerth, Shifted Sims #13 (Covid-19 Expansion Pack), 2020. Petzel Gallery, New York.

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: ZOMBIE FIGURATION AND THE DEATH RITUAL

It’s fall so Dean Kissick goes on a gallery tour of Manhattan.

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Installation view, Ambera Wellmann, “Logic of Ghosts”, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2020; Photo: def-image

Installation view, Austin Lee, “Aah”, Peres Projects, Berlin, 2020, Photo: Matthias Kolb

Installation view, Austin Lee, “Aah”, Peres Projects, Berlin, 2020, Photo: Matthias Kolb

Highlights from Berlin Gallery Weekend 2020

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

-Ella Plevin

Outrage Inactivism