Afterall

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Published twice a year, each issue of Afterall journal includes in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, as well as essays on art history and critical theory. Issue 53 ‘Medium/Metaphor/Milieu’ looks at the exhibitionary in and beyond exhibitions. Gathered through the notions of medium and milieu, it looks at a range of practices and modes of thinking that foreground the exhibitionary in concrete, spatial, architectural and experiential terms. In parallel, the artists and authors included also explore the risks and potential of metaphors as a site of exhibition-making. Elisa Adami is a research fellow and editor at Afterall who is based at the University of the Arts London. Amanda Carneiro is a researcher and currently works as an assistant curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Nav Haq is associate director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp where he is responsible for the development of the artistic program. Mark Lewis is a Canadian artist and filmmaker. He lives and works in London. Adeena Mey is a researcher and curator. He is the managing editor of Afterall and a lecturer at Lausanne University of Art and Design, Switzerland. Charles Stankievech is an artist, writer, and curator. He is associate professor and director of visual studies in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. In  2011, he cofounded the art and theory press, K. in Berlin.            
  Foreword
Charles Stankievech
ARTISTS: STAN DOUGLAS Repetition, Montage, Archive…
Stan Douglas and Shep Steiner
Revisiting Stan Douglas’s ‘Cinema Of Operations’
Jihoon Kim
CONTEXTS Cross-Eyed and Painless in Toronto: A Borderline Case
Luis Jacob
The Exhibition as Medium: Some Observations on the Cybernetisation of the Institution and the Exhibition
Yuk Hui and Adeena Mey
EVENTS, WORKS, EXHIBITIONS Thinking Blackness in Pan-American Artistic Networks. The Case of the Bienal De São Paulo
Bruno Pinheiro
ARTISTS: ANAWANA HALOBA On African Opera: A Conversation with Anawana Haloba
Anawana Haloba
CONTEXTS Logic of the Written Word and Oral Logic: Conflict at the Heart of the Archive
Mamoussé Diagne
EVENTS, WORKS, EXHIBITIONS The Space of a Metaphor: On Mediterraneanism in the Event-Institution
Chiara Cartuccia
ARTISTS: WALID RAAD Museum as Preface: Walid Raad’s History of Art in the Arab World
Elisa Adami
CONTEXTS Becoming Ethnic in China: A ‘Good Story’ Told in Painting and Dialect
Hera Chan and Alvin Li