In November 2015, I participated in a live-coverage event around the Renaissance Society's 100 year anniversary symposium with Karen Archey. You can read the whole stream here. Below is an excerpted capsule I wrote about Ranjit Hoskote's talk.
Josef Strau, The New World, Application for Turtle Island, Installation view, 2014. Courtesy the artist; House of Gaga, Mexico City; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; and the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Photo: Tom Van Eynde.
The following article was originally published by Artslant on October 17, 2014.
I had a dream a couple years ago in which a new, previously unknown continent was discovered on Earth. The knowledge entered my consciousness first like the ambient news of a radio dispatch. It was an impersonal knowledge, born through the slippery medium of dream space, the source of the transmission overlooked as my dream self wondered instead about the profound consequence such a discovery might have on the... +
