Everything Is Contaminated, Pt. 2

Lune Ames considers the power of fermentation in the garden and in revolution

The Artist’s Choice

Cigdem Asatekin considers the perspective of the “Rückenfigur” in Celine Sciamma’s film “Portrait of a Lady”

In the Air: On Points of Connection

Zeny May D. Recidoro reviews West Space Offsite’s second digital issue

A Prototype for Survival

Naomi Lev considers in the role of the body in Yaara Zach’s BLACK FRIDAY exhibition

In the Face of a Pandemic, A Virtual Gallery Hop

Editor-in-Chief Jessica Holmes looks back at eight installations reviewed by Degree Critical

A Declaration

E. A. Bryant III, L.P.I. examines American iconoclasm and a perennial state of “recuperation”

Everything Is Contaminated, Pt. 1

Lune Ames traces how a garden and art installations in vacant storefronts reacquainted them with the notion of contamination

The Curse of Prophesy: Gery Georgieva’s “Sybil’s Noon Shower of Stones”

Amelia Rina explores the dystopian forecasts of algorithmic prophecies in Georgieva’s multimedia installation

Barefoot Suicide

Sumeja Tulic commemorates Ferida and those lost in the Srebrenica genocide 25 years ago

Cultural Work as Parasitic Labor

Enos Nyamor considers the role of the artist among the classifications of “essential” and “non-essential” workers

Production of Anti-Social Distance

Enos Nyamor considers the “social” as a contemporary phenomenon in light of “social distancing” during the Covid-19 pandemic

Empathy As Form

Kate Brock challenges contemporary notions of empathy & racism as a virus