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Joseph Klahr's Public Life Subscriptions: Cruelty, Refusal, and the Architecture of Harm

Joseph Klahr's installation at Leroy's Los Angeles examines how societies oscillate between performing refusal and consuming cruelty—through the haunting case of Genie, he traces how exposure becomes extraction and empathy becomes spectacle.

Georges Salameh’s ASNAM

Georges Salameh’s ASNAM maps Lebanon’s fractured postwar psyche through a surreal proliferation of religious statues invading urban space—both absurdly banal and quietly insurgent.

GHOST PROTOCOLS: Andrew Roberts and the Soft Code of the Undead

Andrew Roberts turns gamer vernacular into necropolitical cartography, staging a zombie LAN party where adolescence, violence, and digital memory collapse into a single haunted interface.

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MYTHS FROM SMOLDERING SKIES: Four Artists Rewrite the Ruins of Tomorrow

An exhibition where apocalypse becomes methodology, Myths from Smoldering Skies gathers four artists who sculpt new mythologies from the debris of our saturated, unstable visual present.

The Bastard Fields: Most Dismal Swamp and the Cinematics of Erosion

A descent into Most Dismal Swamp’s unnervingly lucid universe, where bog bodies, AI ghosts, and collapsing realities merge into a hallucinatory critique of our algorithmic present.

Terraforming the Ruins: Adrián Villar Rojas and the Syntax of Our Disappearance

Adrián Villar Rojas’ apocalyptic garden overtakes Seoul’s Art Sonje Center in a feral, entropic installation that blurs AI, extinction, and ecology into an architecture of collapse.

Rituals for the Unclassified: Esteban Chanez’s The Beasts

Esteban Chanez's The Beasts reanimates medieval bestiaries into ritualistic ecosystems where fantasy, queerness, and clay converge into an unruly taxonomy of tenderness.

OXIS: 7000 Feet Below

Oxis writes oceanic electronica from the bedroom floor: tiny fish, big sea, no therapy, only loops. A hyper-sensitive control freak drowning her perfectionism in jagged, underwater pop.

DOOM: Inside Anne Imhof’s “House of Hope” through the eyes of Tess Petronio

In DOOM: House of Hope, Tess Petronio turns Anne Imhof’s epic performance into a raw visual diary—where the line between collaboration, friendship, and heartbreak dissolves into lived intimacy.

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst’s Starmirror: Toward an AI Liturgy of Collective Intelligence

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst reimagine AI as liturgy, turning the machinery of computation into a collective choir where humans, algorithms, and ancient song merge into shared intelligence.

Tender Apocalypses: Precious Okoyomon’s Worlds of Relation at the Edge of Collapse

Precious Okoyomon turns the apocalypse into a playground of care, fragility, and erotic rebirth — where plush bears and burning eyes reimagine love at the world’s softest ending.

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Humiliation Rituals

Where identity is just content, what happens when the likes dry up?

Understanding the ‘Slopocene’

How the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

Neo-Futurism

As Silicon Valley adopts a century-old movement’s aesthetics, Spike’s editor at large resumes her tech column to ask: What forces compel us to reach back to some romanticized past?

The rise and rise of Lotta Volkova

‘I don’t look at it from a perspective of fashion.’

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Epitaph: The Afterlife of the American Landscape

In Epitaph, Brendon Burton transforms the ruins of rural America into sites of haunting intimacy—where memory, decay, and the spectral residue of history converge into something achingly alive.

AT LEAST ANGELS WATCH OVER ME: Natasha Perova’s Post-Cyborg Fragility

In Moscow’s fābula HQ, Natasha Perova reimagines Haraway’s cyborg through emotional transparency, digital exhaustion, and the quiet persistence of tenderness amid post-human debris.

Beyond the Lake by Carlos Folgoso Sueiro

The Prospect of Immortality by Murray Ballard

Igor Elukov’s “Book of Miracles” and the Theology of the Tundra

THE CLINIC OF THE UNBODIED: TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE AND CONTROL

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