Meriem Bennani: Party on the CAPS

By Shehab Awad

OCT 2019 | ArtSeen

For Meriem Bennani’s first solo exhibition at CLEARING, the Brooklyn-based Moroccan artist has transformed the gallery into something like a spaceship.

World on Fire

By Elizabeth Bishop

SEPT 2020 | Editor's Message

An intertextual installation of joy to uplift the heartbeat that keeps us alive. Installation as party as mode of survival counteracting narratives of bodily shame and poverty porn, of “marginalized” people living only in suffering. COVID-19 civil disunity, writing through quarantine in NYC.

Politics with Normal Characteristics

By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

OCT 2020 | Field Notes

The reality is that Trump’s presidency has been anything but “not normal.” It has continued the same brutal worldview of his predecessors, albeit with unorthodox theatrics that has made the mockery of our two-party system transparent.

Mohammed Kazem: Infinite Angles

By Ruba Al-Sweel

MAY 2020 | ArtSeen

Kazim is neither an experimental light artist of the Instagram-era or a disc jockey of the New Wave renaissance. Rather, his layering of light and sound create infinite reverberations, lending the conditions for the party and the after-party, ad infinitum.