Reclaim: editor’s letters
The Last Leditor (for now)
What is the relationship between collectivity and careerism in the art world today? I don’t believe in originality, but I believe in citation. Citation creates a connection, a conversation, a collective aim. Sharing: nurturing an idea tenderly. Lifting is
The Last Leditor (for now)
What is the relationship between collectivity and careerism in the art world today? I don’t believe in originality, but I believe in citation. Citation creates a connection, a conversation, a collective aim. Sharing: nurturing an idea tenderly. Lifting is
Rethink Environment Leditor Part II
Human Resources entrance, banners by Chan & Mann The triangle: a queer frame whose sacred geometry has been used to convey feminist, gay, and anarchic politics for decades. It is a shape outside the box; A theoretical construction. The pagan
Rethink Environment Leditor Part II
Human Resources entrance, banners by Chan & Mann The triangle: a queer frame whose sacred geometry has been used to convey feminist, gay, and anarchic politics for decades. It is a shape outside the box; A theoretical construction. The pagan
RETHINK ENVIRONMENT: Happening at Human Resources, April 18-20, 2014
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RETHINK ENVIRONMENT: Happening at Human Resources, April 18-20, 2014
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RETHINK ENVIRONMENT LEDITOR PART 1
Martabel Wasserman, Future Happening #1, 2014 Every poster, poem and polemic published in the past eleven issues has come together to make RECAPS a dynamic site for us to collectively theorize the themes we sense in our separate spheres and
RETHINK ENVIRONMENT LEDITOR PART 1
Martabel Wasserman, Future Happening #1, 2014 Every poster, poem and polemic published in the past eleven issues has come together to make RECAPS a dynamic site for us to collectively theorize the themes we sense in our separate spheres and
Reflections on Reflecting
In celebration of our 10th issue, Reclaim Media, some Reflections on Reflecting: Titian, Venus with a Mirror, c. 1555 1. Venus with a Mirror Sometimes I literally catch myself gazing at my navel – which I have
Reflections on Reflecting
In celebration of our 10th issue, Reclaim Media, some Reflections on Reflecting: Titian, Venus with a Mirror, c. 1555 1. Venus with a Mirror Sometimes I literally catch myself gazing at my navel – which I have
Reclaim (the millennial) Generation by Martabel Wasserman
Each generation fucks with form. To break the rules of writing remakes possibilities for how we relate to the past, each other, and knowledge production. The avant-garde, popular culture, and mainstream media collectively constitute how form and language change over
Reclaim (the millennial) Generation by Martabel Wasserman
Each generation fucks with form. To break the rules of writing remakes possibilities for how we relate to the past, each other, and knowledge production. The avant-garde, popular culture, and mainstream media collectively constitute how form and language change over
Daisy Chain Theory: a long leditor/manifesto for May Day by Martabel Wasserman
posterdownload Do you remember what revolution tastes like? that honeyed syrup of possibility that pours through the body, loosening its tight grip on reality-as-is, clearing the way for new sensations and sites for connection, the sweet escape from ego
Daisy Chain Theory: a long leditor/manifesto for May Day by Martabel Wasserman
posterdownload Do you remember what revolution tastes like? that honeyed syrup of possibility that pours through the body, loosening its tight grip on reality-as-is, clearing the way for new sensations and sites for connection, the sweet escape from ego
#ReclaimPride: the Editor’s Interview with David Frantz and Martabel Wasserman
Christopher Street West (CSW), the organizers of the Los Angeles Pride parade, invited ONE Archives to participate in their annual festival as part of a special “Arts and Heritage” exhibition space titled Momentum located in a parking garage under a
#ReclaimPride: the Editor’s Interview with David Frantz and Martabel Wasserman
Christopher Street West (CSW), the organizers of the Los Angeles Pride parade, invited ONE Archives to participate in their annual festival as part of a special “Arts and Heritage” exhibition space titled Momentum located in a parking garage under a
Leditor Six by Martabel Wasserman
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.” –Emma Goldman Writing about reclaiming love is like writing about
Leditor Six by Martabel Wasserman
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.” –Emma Goldman Writing about reclaiming love is like writing about
From Butler to Baptism: A Few Thoughts on Rebirth by Martabel Wasserman
DIY Pantone Easter Eggs by Jessica Jones Rebirth is a performative utterance ripe with secular and queer possibilities. In her groundbreaking 1990 book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler deftly picked up linguist J.L Austin’s notion of the performative utterance
From Butler to Baptism: A Few Thoughts on Rebirth by Martabel Wasserman
DIY Pantone Easter Eggs by Jessica Jones Rebirth is a performative utterance ripe with secular and queer possibilities. In her groundbreaking 1990 book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler deftly picked up linguist J.L Austin’s notion of the performative utterance
Between Two Leditors by Martabel (2008 and 2012)
“In this chaotic moment of flux and change, we have the opportunity to dream bigger than ever. Now is the time for us to state
Between Two Leditors by Martabel (2008 and 2012)
“In this chaotic moment of flux and change, we have the opportunity to dream bigger than ever. Now is the time for us to state
(Re)writing the Road, a leditor by Martabel Wasserman
I’m the robotic kid lost from the blind eye of the government and wandering the edges of a computerized landscape, all civilization is turning like one huge gear in my head. -David Wonjarowicz, In the Shadow of the American Dream/
(Re)writing the Road, a leditor by Martabel Wasserman
I’m the robotic kid lost from the blind eye of the government and wandering the edges of a computerized landscape, all civilization is turning like one huge gear in my head. -David Wonjarowicz, In the Shadow of the American Dream/
Recapping Time by Martabel Wasserman
“Feeling the press of the complexity upon the emptiness of life, people are fearful at the thought that at any moment things might thrust out of control.”- The Port Huron Statement, 1962 This lens is ready-made nostalgia; it was as
Recapping Time by Martabel Wasserman
“Feeling the press of the complexity upon the emptiness of life, people are fearful at the thought that at any moment things might thrust out of control.”- The Port Huron Statement, 1962 This lens is ready-made nostalgia; it was as
CUT, PASTE, DRAG, DREAM: an Editor’s Letter by Martabel Wasserman
I am in the habit of dragging jpegs from my daily Internet wanderings onto my desktop into increasingly chaotic classification systems: Friends in drag, Parties/Performative Resistance?, Police Brutality, Gay Police,Dykes Protesting Interconnected Forms of Oppression, Ernest Flower Power, Psychedelic/Political Buses, Facebook I, Facebook II, Etc. etc. etc.
CUT, PASTE, DRAG, DREAM: an Editor’s Letter by Martabel Wasserman
I am in the habit of dragging jpegs from my daily Internet wanderings onto my desktop into increasingly chaotic classification systems: Friends in drag, Parties/Performative Resistance?, Police Brutality, Gay Police,Dykes Protesting Interconnected Forms of Oppression, Ernest Flower Power, Psychedelic/Political Buses, Facebook I, Facebook II, Etc. etc. etc.
ON COMMUNITY: an Editor’s Letter by Christopher J. Lee
My work with RECAPS is premised on a critical engagement of ‘community’— an operation that, staged directly, resembles the most basic unit of definitional inquiry (i.e. ‘what is community?), and staged incessantly, resembles a rhizomic network of interrogative energy, concretized in
ON COMMUNITY: an Editor’s Letter by Christopher J. Lee
My work with RECAPS is premised on a critical engagement of ‘community’— an operation that, staged directly, resembles the most basic unit of definitional inquiry (i.e. ‘what is community?), and staged incessantly, resembles a rhizomic network of interrogative energy, concretized in
COMMUNITY PLAY: an Editor’s Letter by Colette S
Since Martabel first approached the RECAPS editorial team with the prospect of an online social/art practice platform, we have put ourselves to the challenge of creating working definitions of “community” that will help inform our own practices. Though we are
COMMUNITY PLAY: an Editor’s Letter by Colette S
Since Martabel first approached the RECAPS editorial team with the prospect of an online social/art practice platform, we have put ourselves to the challenge of creating working definitions of “community” that will help inform our own practices. Though we are