Spike Art Magazine

Oct 28, 2024 | spikeartmagazine.com | Douglas McLennan

If you’re reading this on a screen, fuck off. I’ll only talk if I’m gripped with both hands. – Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers (2015)In 1961, Philip Roth laid bare his assessment of literature’s losing battle to the twenty-four-hour news cycle in the seminal essay “Writing American Fiction.” “American reality stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates,” he writes, “and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination.

Nov 22, 2023 | spikeartmagazine.com | Nayland Blake

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Nov 15, 2023 | spikeartmagazine.com | Joanna Walsh

What is the difference between text and texture? Can luxurious prose provoke a desire for expensive clothes, or is all luxury now “quiet”? In her November column, Joanna Walsh discusses Phoebe Philo’s solo debut, silent mythological girls, and Walter Benjamin’s take on TikTok. It’s fall and texture is – as it is, every fall – very big right now. I mean it’s literally big, like the “big bird” coat from Phoebe Philo’s long-awaited and astronomically expensive redux collection.

Nov 14, 2023 | spikeartmagazine.com | Tavia Nyong’o

Sharpening My Tools: Ligia Lewis Ligia Lewis choreographs degree zero. With evasive manoeuvres on darkened stages, she and her dancers grapple and joust with deft athleticism, resisting the arrest of the Black body in motion. Critic and theorist Tavia Nyong’o caught up with Lewis to discuss her recently completed trilogy, the Movement for Black Lives, and the stakes of her fugitive dramaturgy.

Nov 8, 2023 | spikeartmagazine.com | Drew Zeiba

Is artificial intelligence natural, perhaps even inevitable? Drew Zeiba tabulates how K Allado-McDowell, Hito Steyerl, and ricky sallay zoker use predictive tech to pry open or close off our ecological futures. “This is a new phase of the evolution of our species, just picking up speed about now. The divide between natural and artificial will blur and then disappear…. We will develop sentient AI and mind uploading technology….