Substandard Subpar Submerge Subtract Substitute Subordinate Subaltern Submarine Subterfuge Subversive Everything seems upside down these days – inverted, degraded, less-than. A decrease in moral standards and values. Compassion is weakness, and etiquette belongs to a bygone era. Standards are diluted to feed the ever-growing hunger of capitalism. What we thought were shared human values are
With the global Outsider Art Market not being an ‘other’ but a ‘subset’ of the ‘Insider Art Market’, subversion is today the object of subsidy and support by museums and galleries.
Outsider Art: Inherently Subversive? Read More »
Subversive art is not only the soundtrack of a historical moment but also the insistence on continued practice after the moment has passed, and the refusal to be packaged as a political product.
Hearing the South Without a Crisis Read More »
Memes are not merely publishable content, but a constantly evolving space of resistance, and thus the last remaining form of freedom in a time when the Palestinian cause is being silently erased.
Art is breathwork. No matter the medium and the individuality of its creator(s), all art starts out as a series of inhales and exhales.
The Inhale and Exhale of Art Read More »
Depathologizing Black women’s sexuality should involve acknowledging Black women’s capacity to affirm their sexuality for and between themselves.
“‘Callin’ Out My Own Name’: Black Women’s Music, Sexual Agency, and Sounds of Pleasure Read More »
Queer catwalks empower the marginalised on a personal level and set the stage for performance work that carries on the fabulousness of multiply marginalised heritages.
Fabulous Fabulations: Brown Empowerment on the Queer Catwalk Read More »
Academia is sometimes upheld as a place to explore new possibilities and challenge the status quo. In this eulogy to his Black Aesthetics course, Anthony Kwame Harrison laments the dwindling space for subversive Black expression in contemporary universities.
The End Of Black Aesthetics As I’ve Known It Read More »
Mr. EatenFish was detained at Manus Island for four years. He drew to survive.
“I’m Still Here”: Art, Risk, and Survival Read More »
A deep listening to Atlanta rapper Pluto shows how her sound reshapes Black girlhood, time, and survival through bass-heavy imagination rather than protest.
Being Black on Pluto Read More »
Pedro Almodóvar’s film Pepi, Luci, Bom functions as both a cinematic experiment and a manifesto for the Movida ethos, celebrating everything excess and the radical possibility of reshaping identity in the wake of repression.
Anarchy in Madrid: Pepi, Luci, Bom as Political Manifesto Read More »
