In The Hearth’s Happy Life, Kathy Ng Morphs Octopus Porn into Visions of Destruction—and Renewal

By Kally Patz

SEPT 2022 | Theater

Kally Patz profiles Kathy Ng, discussing how the playwright’s upbringing in Hong Kong and malleable interpretation of the body fueled her chaotic-good play, Happy Life

by Kally Patz

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By Cody-Rose Clevidence

MARCH 2023 | Poetry

Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of Aux Arc / Trypt Ich (Nightboat, 2021), Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021), Flung/Throne (Ahsahta, 2018), and BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014), as well as several chapbooks (Fonograf, flowers and cream, NION, garden door press, Auric). They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with three sentient pets.

Adrián Villar Rojas & Mariana Telleria: El fin de la imaginación

By Elizabeth Lothian

MARCH 2023 | ArtSeen

Alone in the gallery, I reflect on how the violence of war and battles both large and small is often memorialized as heroism. I consider how the preservation of these monuments preserves the power of violence and how through this preservation the destruction of the collective is glorified. Perhaps at the end of imagination our new beginning will bloom not from what we remember but rather from what we leave behind, dead and unrescued.

Jacolby Satterwhite: A Feeling of Healing

By Alice Godwin

DEC 22–JAN 23 | ArtSeen

There is a chill in the air of a disused nightclub in Roskilde, about thirty kilometers outside of Copenhagen. The floors are sticky, as if the dance floor has only just been vacated. For the American artist Jacolby Satterwhite, the club is “a strange cave, where intellectuals come together when they are the most unintellectual, but [also] the most beautiful and kindred.”