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What if an artwork changes its shape and sense with every encounter? In our special issue on Polyphony, Barbara Preisig’s semi-fictional play departs on a guided public tour through El Anatsui’s Solo exhibition Triumphant Scale. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s multimedia practice explores the human condition often as mediated through the artist’s experience of Blackness.
Akin Oladimeji interviews her in Third Text Online. thirdtext.org/oladimeji-suns…
Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta would have been 76 years old today. Mendieta’s work spanned mediums from sculpture to performance to video art, often integrating natural materials, the landscape, and her own body.
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The latest issue of Third Text is a special issue on polyphony, which our guest editors describe ‘as method, as a diversity of voices, and as a manifestation of archive and archival practice.’
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In Third Text Online, Akin Oladimeji interviews Kenturah Davis, LA-based interdisciplinary artist whose first solo show in the UK (‘clouds’ at Stephen Friedman Gallery) closed in July 2024.
The full interview is available to read for free: thirdtext.org/oladimeji-kent…
‘Revolutionary Romances? Global Art Histories in the GDR’ explores the aesthetic imaginary of the Cuban Revolution and the independence and liberation movements in Africa in the late 1950s, which sparked hope in the GDR.
Constanze Fritzsch reviews: thirdtext.org/fritzsch-revol…
In Summer 1999, Third Text published a special issue on the World Wide Web. It featured writing on postcolonial media theory, the cybersublime, techno-revolution, pirate electronic cultures in India, and even an essay by Slavoj Žižek.
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In THIRD TEXT ONLINE, our open-access website journal: Akin Oladimeji's interview with Los Angeles-based artist Kenturah Davis following her solo show opening at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (31 May-20 July 2024)
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In Third Text Online, Akin Oladimeji interviews Eliza Kentridge. Their conversation touches upon gender in relation to materials and practices, familial connections, and the question of labor in large-scale installations.
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Constanze Fritzsch on the second 'Revolutionary Romances' exhibition at the Albertinum in Dresden - a project exploring the former GDR's links with the 'Global South': "a transcultural perspective of the interwoven nature of an entangled art history..."
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