No. 450, October 2021 Cover
Grada Kilomba O Barco/The Boat, 2021 performance
Features 1 The Impossible Possible
Yael Bartana interviewed by Sarah James 8 Remoter Viewing
Maria Walsh wonders if our perceptions have changed during lockdown and whether it is possible to feel nostalgia for small-scale, private viewing 11 Siege Mentalities
Mark Prince considers Stanley Brouwn’s work as a test case for complexity over the simplification of culture and history
Profile 16 Sam Keogh
Profile by Chloe Carroll
News & Comment 18 Editorial 19 Artnotes 24 Obituaries
Phillip King 1934–2021 Chuck Close 1940–2021
Reviews Exhibitions 25 Isaac Julien:
Lessons of the Hour Eddie Chambers 26 Trouble In Outer Heaven:
Portable Ops Plus Martin Herbert 27 Baltic Triennial 14:
The Endless Frontier Dominik Czechowski 28 British Art Show 9
Tom Emery
30 Kathrin Böhm:
Compost – Turning the Heap Sarah Jury 31 Alexandre da Cunha: Duplex
Martin Holman 32 Conditions
Jamila Prowse 33 How We Live Now:
Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative Luisa Lorenza Corna 34 Karla Black:
sculptures (2001–2021) – details for a retrospective Greg Thomas 35 Tarek Lakhrissi: My Immortal
Jade Barget 36 Afterness
Matthew Bowman Performance 37 Grada Kilomba:
O Barco/The Boat Emmanuel Balogun Books 38 Julian Stallabrass: Killing for
Show – Photography, War and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq Colin Perry 39 Maria Walsh: Therapeutic
Aesthetics – Performative Encounters in Moving Image Artworks Lauren Houlton 40 Migrations in New Cinema
Adam Pugh 41 Rafal Niemojewski:
Biennials – The Exhibitions We Love to Hate Chris Clarke
Reports 42 Letter from Zurich
Aoife Rosenmeyer 44 Letter from Mallorca
Daniel Neofetou 46 Artlaw
It’s a Wrap Henry Lydiate 47 Listings
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