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
Smog City Blues: Part I by Jose Cordova
Ray was dreaming of black specks darting through a blue plane The specks shook and moved gently, rhythmically. It was a long time since he had seen anything like it. It felt good. The light of the sun had not
Smog City Blues: Part I by Jose Cordova
Ray was dreaming of black specks darting through a blue plane The specks shook and moved gently, rhythmically. It was a long time since he had seen anything like it. It felt good. The light of the sun had not
Work Poems by Raquel Gutiérrez
What is dissent for? In prose, the exposition of weakness goes Unappreciated. Here, a white woman less woman calls big woman more woman the wrong name the evaluative in her mind tumbles out. multi-tasking is sabotage; take me
Work Poems by Raquel Gutiérrez
What is dissent for? In prose, the exposition of weakness goes Unappreciated. Here, a white woman less woman calls big woman more woman the wrong name the evaluative in her mind tumbles out. multi-tasking is sabotage; take me
Labor of Love: C. Spencer Yeh and Masha Tupitsyn Listen To Each Other
Cinema remains the last medium for speaking and performing love culturally. While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon
Labor of Love: C. Spencer Yeh and Masha Tupitsyn Listen To Each Other
Cinema remains the last medium for speaking and performing love culturally. While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon
Ice Cream by Katherine Agard
A woman I once loved now lives in Copenhagen. I imagine her there, happy and dressed in furs I know she would never own. This is my image of the north: one knows precisely how to keep oneself fine and
Ice Cream by Katherine Agard
A woman I once loved now lives in Copenhagen. I imagine her there, happy and dressed in furs I know she would never own. This is my image of the north: one knows precisely how to keep oneself fine and
Julie Ruin and The Sex Stains concert photographs by Caren Spitler
It was a true riot grrrl revival, proving that some 90’s feminist heroes refuse to “go quietly into that good night.” Monday, November 3rd, hundreds of USC students and others were treated to a free punk show as part of
Julie Ruin and The Sex Stains concert photographs by Caren Spitler
It was a true riot grrrl revival, proving that some 90’s feminist heroes refuse to “go quietly into that good night.” Monday, November 3rd, hundreds of USC students and others were treated to a free punk show as part of
Unfaithful by Josh Cho
Unfaithful is a series of images that are collected from the internet that depict a geyser-like burst of water produced by broken fire hydrants in the urban landscape. The images are then converted to black and white, vertically recomposed, and digitally
Unfaithful by Josh Cho
Unfaithful is a series of images that are collected from the internet that depict a geyser-like burst of water produced by broken fire hydrants in the urban landscape. The images are then converted to black and white, vertically recomposed, and digitally
Pizza Magic Coupon by Amy Von Harrington
Funeral for a Plastic Bag
An Object For Measuring Distance by Soyoung Shin
On a day trip with Charlie Matlack, a friend who studies engineering, we had a conversation about retroreflectors: objects that reflect light back to the light’s source. Such objects are used on boats so that boats are picked up on
An Object For Measuring Distance by Soyoung Shin
On a day trip with Charlie Matlack, a friend who studies engineering, we had a conversation about retroreflectors: objects that reflect light back to the light’s source. Such objects are used on boats so that boats are picked up on
Wo/manifesto by WAGE
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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
Reflections on Rethink Environment
Featuring reflections by: Dan Bayles, Claudia Borgna, Kathy Garcia, Hillary Mushkin, Paul Pescador, Brianna Skellie and Boris Torres It has been almost three months since we physically joined together at HRLA to celebrate our community and reconsider the standing of our current political,
Reflections on Rethink Environment
Featuring reflections by: Dan Bayles, Claudia Borgna, Kathy Garcia, Hillary Mushkin, Paul Pescador, Brianna Skellie and Boris Torres It has been almost three months since we physically joined together at HRLA to celebrate our community and reconsider the standing of our current political,
Infinite Mirror by Matias Viegener
They are our spooky friends, the drones. You think they’re coming but they’re already here. You know that movie Poltergeist? Back then they still needed to come through our TV sets. Now they’re much smarter. There might be one under
Infinite Mirror by Matias Viegener
They are our spooky friends, the drones. You think they’re coming but they’re already here. You know that movie Poltergeist? Back then they still needed to come through our TV sets. Now they’re much smarter. There might be one under
Hazing the Muse Part II: Dr. Laurie Weeks interviews Benjy Russell and Rya Kleinpeter
To Darken This Darkness RECAPS featured an earlier version of Hazing The Muse in the Fall if 2012. After connecting in virtual space for the past two years, it was cosmic timing that Russell rolled into LA on his truck in from
Hazing the Muse Part II: Dr. Laurie Weeks interviews Benjy Russell and Rya Kleinpeter
To Darken This Darkness RECAPS featured an earlier version of Hazing The Muse in the Fall if 2012. After connecting in virtual space for the past two years, it was cosmic timing that Russell rolled into LA on his truck in from
Crunchy Eggs excerpt by Félix Solano Vargas
Raquel Gutiérrez is re-seizing the means of intellectual production in the rich tradition of the chapbook. Her press, Econo Textual Objects, defines itself as an “experimentation within economic means for writers pursuing aesthetic adventures grounded in working class realities.” Crunchy
Crunchy Eggs excerpt by Félix Solano Vargas
Raquel Gutiérrez is re-seizing the means of intellectual production in the rich tradition of the chapbook. Her press, Econo Textual Objects, defines itself as an “experimentation within economic means for writers pursuing aesthetic adventures grounded in working class realities.” Crunchy
When You Think the Night Has Seen Your Mind: Thoughts on Queers and Astrology by Marty Windahl
As I write this, the sun is in the astrological sign of Gemini. Gemini is known as the sign of the Twins. In the Greek myth associated with this constellation and sign, the twins are two brothers or in some
When You Think the Night Has Seen Your Mind: Thoughts on Queers and Astrology by Marty Windahl
As I write this, the sun is in the astrological sign of Gemini. Gemini is known as the sign of the Twins. In the Greek myth associated with this constellation and sign, the twins are two brothers or in some
Scrapping Ceremony by Maya Gurantz
Scrapping Ceremony by Maya Gurantz On my desk in front of me, I see seven external hard drives, two iPads, my desktop computer, a tiny digital point-and-click camera that is 10 years old thus not of high enough quality
Scrapping Ceremony by Maya Gurantz
Scrapping Ceremony by Maya Gurantz On my desk in front of me, I see seven external hard drives, two iPads, my desktop computer, a tiny digital point-and-click camera that is 10 years old thus not of high enough quality
Sonic Succulent Sculptures by Adrienne Adar
Inspired from natural forms and structures, my work addresses issues of visual and audio language, and technology’s influence on our perception and sensory experiences of everyday life. Sonic Succulents is a new series of sound objects, comprised of living plants
Sonic Succulent Sculptures by Adrienne Adar
Inspired from natural forms and structures, my work addresses issues of visual and audio language, and technology’s influence on our perception and sensory experiences of everyday life. Sonic Succulents is a new series of sound objects, comprised of living plants
Notes On Plastic by Heather Davis
Better Things (detail), 1939, Dupont Archives It permeates almost everything about our daily existence, subtending and making possible the so-called comforts of contemporary life, the fixations of our modernity, our abundance, our media and communication networks. Yet its ubiquity
Notes On Plastic by Heather Davis
Better Things (detail), 1939, Dupont Archives It permeates almost everything about our daily existence, subtending and making possible the so-called comforts of contemporary life, the fixations of our modernity, our abundance, our media and communication networks. Yet its ubiquity
Pocket Rocks by Alayna Rasile
Pocket Rock is an exercise in geological illustration, meditation, mineral identification, and social lubrication. It began when I was gifted tupperwares and zip-lock bags filled with specimens by an eccentric mustachioed man with a mission to spread beauty in the form of
Pocket Rocks by Alayna Rasile
Pocket Rock is an exercise in geological illustration, meditation, mineral identification, and social lubrication. It began when I was gifted tupperwares and zip-lock bags filled with specimens by an eccentric mustachioed man with a mission to spread beauty in the form of
On Nature by Martin Eiermann
The map I used to teach myself map-reading had been around for more than a decade when I found it in the glove compartment of my parents’ car. It was the type of map that was sold en masse in
On Nature by Martin Eiermann
The map I used to teach myself map-reading had been around for more than a decade when I found it in the glove compartment of my parents’ car. It was the type of map that was sold en masse in
Poems by Phoebe Wang
The Cloud People The planners leaned over the lip of the clouds and estimated the land’s jutting elevations. From their perch, they cast recommendations like horoscopes, predicting fresh horizons. Chimney stacks materialized mid-air, spewing smoke like bilious dragons. Heron-headed construction
Poems by Phoebe Wang
The Cloud People The planners leaned over the lip of the clouds and estimated the land’s jutting elevations. From their perch, they cast recommendations like horoscopes, predicting fresh horizons. Chimney stacks materialized mid-air, spewing smoke like bilious dragons. Heron-headed construction
Ode to Nancy Holt and a Powerful Earth by Kelly Johnson
I recently moved to Baltimore from Texas, anxious that the cold and concrete would eliminate my connection with nature. But everyday I notice an unexpected trace of the natural earth in the city: the shocking pink of the roses in
Ode to Nancy Holt and a Powerful Earth by Kelly Johnson
I recently moved to Baltimore from Texas, anxious that the cold and concrete would eliminate my connection with nature. But everyday I notice an unexpected trace of the natural earth in the city: the shocking pink of the roses in
A Map to the Next World by Adrienne Rosenberg
1 There they were, pouring out of the earth like fire ants, ready to settle and organize and multiply and eventually ready to consume. The emergence, as the Pueblo people call it, was difficult. The hole into the world was
A Map to the Next World by Adrienne Rosenberg
1 There they were, pouring out of the earth like fire ants, ready to settle and organize and multiply and eventually ready to consume. The emergence, as the Pueblo people call it, was difficult. The hole into the world was
Suzanne Wright’s Rainbow Control Room by Katherine Brewer Ball
“to wound the autumnal city So Howled out for the world to give him a name The in-dark answered with wind.” Samuel Delany’s twisting science fiction novel Dhalgren (1975) begins with these lines. The nameless “Kid,” our protagonist, reads from an
Suzanne Wright’s Rainbow Control Room by Katherine Brewer Ball
“to wound the autumnal city So Howled out for the world to give him a name The in-dark answered with wind.” Samuel Delany’s twisting science fiction novel Dhalgren (1975) begins with these lines. The nameless “Kid,” our protagonist, reads from an
“¿Qué es esa cosa Installation Art?” by Óscar Diaz
Mi mamí me preguntó “¿Qué es esa cosa Installation Art?” I put the book down and walked with her around our casita. Guadelupe, Jesús and various Santos atop entrance ways watching over us as we move
“¿Qué es esa cosa Installation Art?” by Óscar Diaz
Mi mamí me preguntó “¿Qué es esa cosa Installation Art?” I put the book down and walked with her around our casita. Guadelupe, Jesús and various Santos atop entrance ways watching over us as we move
SISTER CYBORG by enn msrv
“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.” — Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider “This is an argument for
SISTER CYBORG by enn msrv
“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.” — Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider “This is an argument for
WHATEVER DON’T KILL YOU JUST MAKES YOU SOMBER by Local Honey
WHATEVER DON’T KILL YOU JUST MAKES YOU SOMBER *~prologue~* ((i’m not going to avoid clichés)) but just approach them with sincerity and the heart that i most often wear on my sleeve i didn’t choose to live in a society
WHATEVER DON’T KILL YOU JUST MAKES YOU SOMBER by Local Honey
WHATEVER DON’T KILL YOU JUST MAKES YOU SOMBER *~prologue~* ((i’m not going to avoid clichés)) but just approach them with sincerity and the heart that i most often wear on my sleeve i didn’t choose to live in a society
Trees by Anonymous
Sep 16, 12:14PM Hey man. I’m back stateside. Let me know what you’re looking for and I’ll put my feelers out. Hope things have picked up for you Nope. more drama an bulshit then u could imagine. If u got
Trees by Anonymous
Sep 16, 12:14PM Hey man. I’m back stateside. Let me know what you’re looking for and I’ll put my feelers out. Hope things have picked up for you Nope. more drama an bulshit then u could imagine. If u got
Be Here Nowish: an interview with Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leite
The Age of Aquarius barely survived Reaganomics. Everything from kale to kundalini has been re-branded. Millennials soul searching can’t tune in and drop out without being reminded of tremendous student debt, environmental catastrophe, or that the NSA is monitoring their
Be Here Nowish: an interview with Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leite
The Age of Aquarius barely survived Reaganomics. Everything from kale to kundalini has been re-branded. Millennials soul searching can’t tune in and drop out without being reminded of tremendous student debt, environmental catastrophe, or that the NSA is monitoring their
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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Relative Truths: Zackary Drucker interviews Flawless Sabrina for RECAPS
Zackary Drucker: “I had known truth…” Flawless Sabrina: I had known truth and he was a drug addict. Last I heard he was in prison somewhere in New Jersey. But he was very old at the time, so he could
Relative Truths: Zackary Drucker interviews Flawless Sabrina for RECAPS
Zackary Drucker: “I had known truth…” Flawless Sabrina: I had known truth and he was a drug addict. Last I heard he was in prison somewhere in New Jersey. But he was very old at the time, so he could
Why Queers Love Astrology by Christopher J. Lee
The queer reluctance to disclose intrinsic natures is a well-theorized subject in cultural criticism, epitomized in David Halperin’s note on the definitional bounds of queerness: “an identity without essence.” Yet enter a room full of queers, and one comes to
Why Queers Love Astrology by Christopher J. Lee
The queer reluctance to disclose intrinsic natures is a well-theorized subject in cultural criticism, epitomized in David Halperin’s note on the definitional bounds of queerness: “an identity without essence.” Yet enter a room full of queers, and one comes to
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
Radio, Paradise, and Nuclear Power: Kaucyila Brooke interviewed by Christina Linorter
Politics and Narratives in Landscape and Gardens[1] CL: In the Eden’s Edge project we are specifically interested in the relationship of narrative and landscape. In your work you combine exactly these two themes. How did you become interested in
Radio, Paradise, and Nuclear Power: Kaucyila Brooke interviewed by Christina Linorter
Politics and Narratives in Landscape and Gardens[1] CL: In the Eden’s Edge project we are specifically interested in the relationship of narrative and landscape. In your work you combine exactly these two themes. How did you become interested in
Soft Butch by Benjy Russell
Soft Butch is a place of pure concentrated energy that exists between states of explosion and implosion, an alternate universe free of the binary gender system, a place where children are awash in the knowledge that we do not discover new truths,
Soft Butch by Benjy Russell
Soft Butch is a place of pure concentrated energy that exists between states of explosion and implosion, an alternate universe free of the binary gender system, a place where children are awash in the knowledge that we do not discover new truths,
A Man Is (Not) A Mountain by Petra Valdimarsdóttir
A MAN IS (NOT) A MOUNTAIN is a project based on my uncle’s horse farm, which lies between isolated mountains in Iceland. As a young girl I spent summers playing with my cousins on his farm but in the past
A Man Is (Not) A Mountain by Petra Valdimarsdóttir
A MAN IS (NOT) A MOUNTAIN is a project based on my uncle’s horse farm, which lies between isolated mountains in Iceland. As a young girl I spent summers playing with my cousins on his farm but in the past
Fare Buoyantly II by Joey Lehman Morris
This is a photograph of a portion of Owens Lake, looking northwest, during a dust storm. In 1913, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began the diversion of Owens’ arteries to feed its own aqueduct. Owens lowered for over
Fare Buoyantly II by Joey Lehman Morris
This is a photograph of a portion of Owens Lake, looking northwest, during a dust storm. In 1913, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began the diversion of Owens’ arteries to feed its own aqueduct. Owens lowered for over
On Maps by Flora Kao
Recently, I purchased an Army Air Forces cloth chart. The envelope arrived as I was on my way out. Tearing it open, I glimpsed the frayed edges of a folded silk map. I set the envelope aside, deciding to open
On Maps by Flora Kao
Recently, I purchased an Army Air Forces cloth chart. The envelope arrived as I was on my way out. Tearing it open, I glimpsed the frayed edges of a folded silk map. I set the envelope aside, deciding to open
Sore by Saehee Cho
I was inside of death before I had been born. My mother had been dead for three minutes when I was loosed from a gash under her navel. My father preferred to not talk about my birth at all but
Sore by Saehee Cho
I was inside of death before I had been born. My mother had been dead for three minutes when I was loosed from a gash under her navel. My father preferred to not talk about my birth at all but
Knowing is Not Naming by Xiaowei Wang
We never spoke about the end of empires, but when it happened, we had not seen each other for years. Somehow it escaped our taxonomy of the world, in between the causally symmetric balances and the notes you kept in
Knowing is Not Naming by Xiaowei Wang
We never spoke about the end of empires, but when it happened, we had not seen each other for years. Somehow it escaped our taxonomy of the world, in between the causally symmetric balances and the notes you kept in
RETHINK ENVIRONMENT VIDEO PROGRAMMING: featuring Johanna Breiding, Rebecca Lieberman,Tina Takemoto
End of the Line by Johanna Breiding End of the Line is a multi-media project addressing memory, entropy and the death of analogue photography via the historical and environmental significance of small town Keeler, California. The story of Keeler draws uncanny parallels to the death of analogue
RETHINK ENVIRONMENT VIDEO PROGRAMMING: featuring Johanna Breiding, Rebecca Lieberman,Tina Takemoto
End of the Line by Johanna Breiding End of the Line is a multi-media project addressing memory, entropy and the death of analogue photography via the historical and environmental significance of small town Keeler, California. The story of Keeler draws uncanny parallels to the death of analogue
Lab-grown Ear, 2013 by Sarah Bay Williams
One of five piñatas in the series 2013: the Year in Science. In February of 2013, scientists announced that they had used a 3D printer to print and grow a living ear from living cells. Inside Lab-grown Ear are chocolates,
Lab-grown Ear, 2013 by Sarah Bay Williams
One of five piñatas in the series 2013: the Year in Science. In February of 2013, scientists announced that they had used a 3D printer to print and grow a living ear from living cells. Inside Lab-grown Ear are chocolates,
Incendiary Traces by Hillary Mushkin
Contemporary war seems remote and immaterial to most Americans; the public’s images of conflict zones are largely formed through media. However, national leaders and the military have many other tools to visualize conflicts. For example, drawing, cartography and satellite imagery
Incendiary Traces by Hillary Mushkin
Contemporary war seems remote and immaterial to most Americans; the public’s images of conflict zones are largely formed through media. However, national leaders and the military have many other tools to visualize conflicts. For example, drawing, cartography and satellite imagery
Excerpt from Pink Trumpet and the Purple Prose by Nikki Darling
Secret Agent Lover Dandelion Whine Lester Cough Syrup Jazz Solo Glamorous Life Love Baby doll baby. Baby doll baby. I look at your pictures and bite my lip. I selfie all this love in your direction. I take little steps
Excerpt from Pink Trumpet and the Purple Prose by Nikki Darling
Secret Agent Lover Dandelion Whine Lester Cough Syrup Jazz Solo Glamorous Life Love Baby doll baby. Baby doll baby. I look at your pictures and bite my lip. I selfie all this love in your direction. I take little steps
Surrender by Marcus Civin
Paper accumulates. Among other things, I am a teacher, an art teacher—I get notes and I make notes. I started gluing some of my papers together, making my papers into stuck-together paper chunks, bricks of paper, stuck-together piles, thick clumpy
Surrender by Marcus Civin
Paper accumulates. Among other things, I am a teacher, an art teacher—I get notes and I make notes. I started gluing some of my papers together, making my papers into stuck-together paper chunks, bricks of paper, stuck-together piles, thick clumpy
Ecocore Posters by Alessandro Bava
Checkout E-C-O-C-O-R-E, a bi-annual ecology xine here.
Ecocore Posters by Alessandro Bava
Checkout E-C-O-C-O-R-E, a bi-annual ecology xine here.
NATURE! This one’s for you! by Chan & Mann
Documentation and costumes from this 2006 performance by Chan & Mann will be on display at Rethink Environment. Assisting in their intervention with Nature, Chan & Mann invited an assortment of native (and exotic) animal assistants, including Mr. Whale, Ms.
NATURE! This one’s for you! by Chan & Mann
Documentation and costumes from this 2006 performance by Chan & Mann will be on display at Rethink Environment. Assisting in their intervention with Nature, Chan & Mann invited an assortment of native (and exotic) animal assistants, including Mr. Whale, Ms.
Yogurt Liberation Front with Manifesto by Lisa Tucker
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Yogurt Liberation Front with Manifesto by Lisa Tucker
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