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Get on the Band-wagon: Darren Banks’ mobile cinema
Project essay for Darren Banks’ Palace Band-Wagon at FIAC 2010. Read my interview with Banks on Lux. Parked in the Cour Carrée entrance of FIAC 2010, Darren Banks’ (UK) temporary horror cinema Palace...
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Malcolm Le Grice’s “Horror Film 1″
The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds’ United Enemies film screening series explores ”how artists in the 1960s and 1970s deployed sculpture in film, as well as using film to rethink sculpture”. As part of...
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Gary Simmons – Metro Pictures
Gary Simmons – Metro Pictures (November 29, 2012 – January 19, 2013) Gary Simmons’ mini-survey featuring selects works of the last twenty years at Metro Pictures reveals a complicated history of race...
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Ed Kienholz – The Ozymandias Parade
Confronting (and that’s what it is, a confrontation) Ed Kienholz’s The Ozymandias Parade at Pace Gallery is a wonderfully jarring experience. Profound and silly, meaningful through a montage of...
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Book review: House of Psychotic Women
Per the enthusiastic recommendation by Fangoria‘s Sam Zimmerman, I recently purchased and immediately devoured House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and...
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Where’s the Money, Julian Hoeber
The history of horror cinema is a complicated web of socio-political narratives combined with the limitations and innovations of filmmaking itself. What Julian Hoeber’s Where’s the Money (playing now...
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Mike Nelson: “More things (To the Memory of Honore de Balzac)”
The following is what I hope will be the first of many writings about the work of Mike Nelson. This particular essay stems from his recent exhibition More things (To the Memory of Honore de Balzac) at...
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Susan Hiller: “Channels” at Matt’s Gallery
Susan Hiller’s Channels at Matt’s Gallery is an audio-visual conglomeration of near death experience (NDE) narrations told through a full-scale installation of television monitors. Whether these...
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Book Review: Horror in Architecture
I had been eagerly awaiting the publication of Singapore-based architects Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing’s new book Horror in Architecture for months as it specifically addresses the two very...
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Gallery Goings: from Pettibon to Collins
Brief recap of gallery exhibitions from October 2, 2013. Aldo Tambellini We Are the Primitives of a New Era at James Cohan Gallery Blows everything away. Read review here. Raymond Pettibon To Wit at...
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