Vancouver Art | Asian Mobilities | Horizontal Art History | Music | Reviews | Volumes
2024
“Confabulations, in search of teb chaw,” in Pao Houa Her: My grandfather turned into a tiger… and other illusions, Aperture, pp. 116–118
“Diane Severin Nguyen: If I hadn’t created my own world, I would have died in someone else’s,” in Capture Catalogue 2024, Capture Photography Festival, pp. 84–87
2023
“From And then this also to We Wear One Another: A Lockdown Memoir,” in Timelines, Contemporary Art Gallery
“How to echolocate in a green screen,” in Gabi Dao: What breaks on the horizon?, Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin
“Classification Crisis, or: To hit an audience cleanly,” in Sonja Ahlers: Classification Crisis, Conundrum Press and Richmond Art Gallery, pp. 21–40
“What Is Hong Kong Time?” (conversation with Christopher K. Ho, Melissa Karmen Lee, and Holman Wang), in ASAP/Journal, January, pp. 1–11
“Broken Time and the Intergenerational: Marigold Santos at SAAG,” in ReIssue
2022
“Vancouver Photohistory and the Politics of Disappearance,” in C Magazine, Winter, pp. 44–48
“Archival Temporality and the Oral Form” (co-authored with Alexandra Alisauskas), in Kanaa Xusuuso, Kanna Xus: Orality, Visuality, and the Colonial Archive of Somalia, 1885–1960, commissioned by Soomaal House of Art
introduction to Anthropology of a Phytomorphist (by TJ Shin), in Heliotrope
“To hear all the cars not honking,” in BlackFlash
2021
“The archive is evidence I exist: A Conversation with Sonja Ahlers” (co-authored with Alexandra Alisauskas), in ReIssue
review of Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things, in The Capilano Review, Fall, pp. 105–109
review of Brendan Fernandes: Inaction at Richmond Art Gallery, in C Magazine, Summer, pp. 77–78
“Land, Landlessness, Mobility,” in ArtAsiaPacific, March/April, pp. 26–27
“Tense: On Tanya Lukin Linklater’s We Wear One Another,” in ReIssue; reprinted in ReIssue Year 1 Anthology, UNIT/PITT, pp. 128–135
“A Summer Wasting,” in Aileen Bahmanipour: Wasting Techniques, commissioned by the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
exhibition essay for Vanessa Brown: SLUMBER, commissioned by Patel Brown Gallery
2020
preface to granted to a foreign citizen by Sun Yung Shin, Artspeak, pp. 1–4
scene report on Vancouver, in ArtAsiaPacific, Sept/October, p. 14
review of Ken Lum: Everything is Relevant, in RACAR, Fall, pp. 169–170
“A Matter of Perspective: On Jinny Yu, why does its lock fit my key? at Galerie Art Mûr,” in Exhibition Reviews Annual
2019
“‘The Black Magic of Their Own Imaginations’: Notes on Extinction,” in Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Empty Forest, commissioned by The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, pp. 44–61
“Places That Are Not a Place: Samson Young in conversation with Godfre Leung,” in Samson Young: It’s a heaven over there, Centre A, pp. 1–12
“The beauty of their city, the kindly weather of the skies,” in Alexa Horochowski: Beautiful Sky, commissioned by the Rochester Art Center
“Seven, Eleven, Twenty-Six: Some Conversions,” in AA4, commissioned by Clear as Day, pp. 3–35
“Writing About Douglas Writing About Douglas Writing,” in C Magazine, Winter, pp. 72–74
“Airplanes Over the Pacific: Christopher K. Ho in Conversation,” in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, May/June, pp. 83–94
“Linebreak,” in The Third Rail, pp. 56–58
2018
“Today, To Think To and Fro, To Live Together: On In the Meantime by Christian Nyampeta,” Postscript #73, commissioned by Artspeak
“Photos Worth a Thousand Houses,” in Maisonneuve, Summer, pp. 58–61
“Factory and Chinese Mall, Catastrophe and Dreamworld,” in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, May/June, pp. 84–88
“Revising Dada,” in Canadian Art
2017
review of New Pictures: The Propeller Group, Reincarnations at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, in Afterimage, July/August, pp. 19–20
“SARS, Skincare, Real Estate, Rhythm: Lee Kit’s Politics of Space,” in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, March/April, pp. 6–19
“Interview with Barbara Held” (co-authored with Alexandra Alisauskas), in The Third Rail, pp. 28–35
“Barbara Held and Yasunao Tone, 1985–1990: Can the Flautist Speak?”, in ASAP/J
2016
“Figure and Ground, Image and Sound: Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon and the Digital Medium,” in The Soundtrack, December, pp. 91–105
review of Cao Fei at MoMA/PS1, in Afterimage, November/December, pp. 32–33
review of Lee Kit: Hold your breath, dance slowly at the Walker Art Center, in Art in America, November, pp. 155–156
“Geography, Photography, Art History: Toward a Transnational Ellsworth Kelly,” in Panorama: The Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Fall
review of Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds at Paula Cooper Gallery, in C Magazine, Spring, pp. 60–61
“Mariah Carey: Lyric in the Era of Semiocapitalism,” in The Third Rail, pp. 18–20
2015
“International Pop: A Visual Chronology,” in International Pop, pp. 11–74, commissioned by the Walker Art Center
“Before Globalization: Pop as Transnational/Transitional,” in ARTMargins
“Leaving Düsseldorf,” in Art Journal, Winter, pp. 64–69
review of Billy Name, The Silver Age: Black and White Photographs from Andy Warhol’s Factory and Catherine Zuromskis, The Factory: Photography and the Warhol Community, in Afterimage, May/June, pp. 39–41
2014
“Three ‘Paintings’ by Tone Yasunao,” in post: Notes on Modern & Contemporary Art Around the Globe, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Jeremy Shaw: Attention, Oblivion, Jubilation,” in C Magazine, Spring, pp. 16–22
2013
“Windows, Wallpaper, and Screens,” in Widok. Teorie i praktyki kultury wizualnej / The View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture
2012
“Christopher D’Arcangelo’s Occupations,” in Toronto Review of Books
“‘Everyone and I Stopped Breathing’: William Basinski at the Met,” in Toronto Review of Books
review of Rosalind E. Krauss, Under Blue Cup, in Afterimage, July/August, pp. 38–39
“In Reverse Order: How to Dress Well, a Theory of the Baroque, and a Memory of Rochester,” in Mała Kultura Współczesna
“Why We Should Care About Breaking Bad,” in Mała Kultura Współczesna
2011
“Morrissey, Billy Bragg on the Riots in England,” in Mała Kultura Współczesna
“Working Through Margarete: Two Fantasies of the German Anthem,” in Resounding Pasts: Essays on Literature, Popular Music, and Cultural Memory, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 283–310
review of Christine Mehring, Blinky Palermo: Abstraction of an Era and Suzanne P. Hudson, Used Paint: Robert Ryman, in InVisible Culture, Spring, pp. 108–114
2010
“Introduction: The Sociality of the Spectacle,” in InVisible Culture, Winter, pp. 1–11
review of Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Afterimage, September/October, pp. 34–35
2009
review of Imi Knoebel, 24 Farben für Blinky at Dia:Beacon, in caa.reviews
2008
“Life Into Art: From the Imaginary Punk House to the Imaginary Museum,” in Trading Spaces exhibition catalogue, Binghamton University
2007
“After the Neo-Avant-Garde? New-Genre Conceptual Art and the Institution of Critique,” in Art Journal, Winter, pp. 109–111
Volumes Edited
2023
Sonja Ahlers: Classification Crisis, exhibition catalogue, Conundrum Press and Richmond Art Gallery // texts by Alexandra Alisauskas and Jennifer Douglas, Tavi Gevinson, Kathleen Hanna, Doretta Lau, and Lisa Prentice + new bookwork by the artist
2020
granted to a foreign citizen by Sun Yung Shin, Artspeak // poetry chapbook commissioned for unstately
2019
Samson Young: It’s a heaven over there, exhibition catalogue, Centre A // texts by Hendrick Folkerts and Qinyi Lim + interview with the artist
2010
“Spectacle East Asia,” special issue of InVisible Culture, co-edited with Sohl Lee // texts by Caitlin Bruce, Okwui Enwezor, Rika Iezumi Hiro, Barbara London, and Hyejong Yoo + video program featuring Minouk Lim, Zheng Bo, and others