Shiv Kotecha

Jan 2, 2025 | frieze.com | Shiv Kotecha

This piece appears in the columns section of frieze 248, ‘Disobedience’Sanja Grozdanić and Bassem Saad's performance Permanent Trespass (Beirut of the Balkans & The American Century) (2021–ongoing) begins with imminent liquidation. ‘Everything must go!’, Saad utters to Grozdanić. She is holding a copy of the script, but she’s not reading it. Her delivery is unaffected; like the sparsely decorated interior that surrounds them, it’s a bit empty.

Nov 12, 2024 | culturedmag.com | Shiv Kotecha

Sebastian Acero, Cruz, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and OCDChinatown. "Bad Girls" through December 8, 2024OCDChinatown | 75 East Broadway Mall, 2nd FloorSharp, glimmering pins pierce the corners of Fern Cerezo’s two self-portraits in OCDChinatown's group show “Bad Girls,” which has been lovingly assembled by Devan Díaz for her curatorial debut.

Sep 26, 2024 | forgeorganizing.org | Shiv Kotecha |Rachel Schragis |Josh Yoder |Jennifer Epps-Addison

Shiv Kotecha explains the role of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in fighting against Israel's use of culture as a weapon of genocide. For over nine months the world has witnessed Israel murder over 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza. That number, shocking as it is, is absolutely an undercount. Thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.

Dec 27, 2023 | frieze.com | Shiv Kotecha

This article appears in the columns section of frieze 239, ‘Re-evaluations’I remember ditching school to see Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003) in the cinema.

Nov 26, 2023 | thenewinquiry.com | Shiv Kotecha |Rainer Diana Hamilton

When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights Against Apartheid,” a statement instructing the signers’ literary agents to refuse performance rights in segregated theaters, he made public his recognition that a contract with the agency Curtis Brown Ltd was directly related to the oppression of Black South Africans. In addition to their financial and reputational effects, boycotts shorten the perceived distances between moral actors.