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TABLE OF CONTENTS 41 43 55 DARA BIRNBAUM TURNING THE MEDIA AGAINST ITSELF Michelle Kuo, Rahel Aima, and Emmanuel Olunkwa in conversation Birnbaum was not simply railing against the culture industry. michelle kuo A panel discussion about the perspective of a gendered subject and feminism as a category for thinking through the practice of an artist; Dara Birnbaum’s naturalization of screens in the public space via her architectural interventions; and how we navigate the world in an economy prompting us to constantly manipulate the flow and syntax of media. I FOUGHT LIKE FUCKING HELL TO GET OUT OF THE BLACK BOX Dara Birnbaum, Hito Steyerl, and Stuart Comer in conversation All images right now undergo vast translation and transmutation, but as much as images are absorbed throughout a society, they don’t disappear—they just might carry with them a different reference. dara birnbaum Bringing together two artists from different generations, this conversation—held in March 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and here published for the first time—surveys the impact of changing technologies, production methods, and systems of distribution on how artists relate to and repurpose images. 81 83 ANDREA BRANZI A RIBBON RUNNING THROUGH Andrea Branzi in conversation with Alessandro Rabottini A conversation about the critique of modernist paradigms, the strategic use of the fragment, and Andrea Branzi’s commitment to constantly moving in and out of his own work while never addressing the aesthetic question of beauty. If you think about it, poets never speak about poetry. andrea branzi 34
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95 LA GIOCONDA SBARBATA (THE SHAVED MONA LISA) by Andrea Branzi (from Casabella, no. 363, March 1972) Rejection is no longer the secret dream of some derelict, or the prophetic doctrine of scattered groups: it will be the biggest collective discovery of this century. andrea branzi Andrea Branzi rivals a positivist understanding of the avant-garde, outlining it as a quintessentially capitalist force harboring the “technical destruction of culture” and reflecting on its social, moral, religious, and aesthetic meanings. 119 121 LALA RUKH READING LALA RUKH by Saira Ansari Indeed, beyond nothingness, what is there? saira ansari Among all the different opinions and readings on the personal, public, and professional life of the late Pakistani artist Lala Rukh, the largest consensus is that she was not the easiest person to decode. She spoke in few words and made images with far less. 131 INTERVIEWS, PAST AND PRESENTbyMariah Lookman There is a very interesting story that somebody from Radio India wrote to Radio Pakistan saying , “You give us Roshan Ara Begum and you can have Kashmir!” lala rukh In a polyphonic conversation composed of excerpts from interviews with Amin Gulgee, Hamra Abbas, Sarah Zaman, and Lala Rukh herself—that last recorded on the morning before the demolition of her studio—Mariah Lookman pens an intimate, posthumous portrait of the artist. 161 163 JULIE BECKER THE DELIRIUM OF DIGRESSION by Sabrina Tarasoff (from Mousse #76, Summer 2021) Distortions in time, changes in scale, senses of derealization and depersonalization. Makeshift force fields, cardboard boxes, corners of the mind, and iconic figures mobilized as transports of the imagination capable of stirring the mind out of its single room-squalor and into a “larger, more complex world.” sabrina tarasoff Surrounded by lost things and abandoned lives, leftover ephemera, and fragments of the past, Sabrina Tarasoff ponders Julie Becker’s imagery as a domestically shaped fever dream. 35

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DARA BIRNBAUM TURNING THE MEDIA

AGAINST ITSELF Michelle Kuo, Rahel Aima, and Emmanuel Olunkwa in conversation

Birnbaum was not simply railing against the culture industry. michelle kuo

A panel discussion about the perspective of a gendered subject and feminism as a category for thinking through the practice of an artist; Dara Birnbaum’s naturalization of screens in the public space via her architectural interventions; and how we navigate the world in an economy prompting us to constantly manipulate the flow and syntax of media.

I FOUGHT LIKE FUCKING

HELL TO GET OUT OF

THE BLACK BOX Dara Birnbaum, Hito Steyerl, and Stuart Comer in conversation

All images right now undergo vast translation and transmutation, but as much as images are absorbed throughout a society, they don’t disappear—they just might carry with them a different reference. dara birnbaum

Bringing together two artists from different generations, this conversation—held in March 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and here published for the first time—surveys the impact of changing technologies, production methods, and systems of distribution on how artists relate to and repurpose images.

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83

ANDREA BRANZI A RIBBON RUNNING

THROUGH Andrea Branzi in conversation with Alessandro Rabottini A conversation about the critique of modernist paradigms, the strategic use of the fragment, and Andrea Branzi’s commitment to constantly moving in and out of his own work while never addressing the aesthetic question of beauty.

If you think about it, poets never speak about poetry. andrea branzi

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