ASAP/Journal
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ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts.
Joined January 2017
RT @sandeepbak: At the heart of this trial is whiteness in the French sense of civilization. - Fania Noël. One of the most riveting review….
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RT @ASAP_Journal: "In their countless displays, the pieces act as that form of memory-as-thunder that Stanton had sought after.". Our newes….
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RT @ASAP_Journal: Our newest piece—Teddy Duncan Jr.'s review of What You Make of Me by Sophie Madeline Dess—is now live!. “The best we can….
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Sophie Madeline Dess. What You Make of Me. Penguin Press, 2025. The human experience of loss (through whatever means) is precisely what it appears to be: an intolerable deprivation, a vacantness—a...
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"In their countless displays, the pieces act as that form of memory-as-thunder that Stanton had sought after.". Our newest review is now live! Check out Graham Feyl's review of Larry Stanton's exhibit, "Think of Me When It Thunders." . Read it now!.
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RT @ASAP_Journal: Check out our newest piece, Chris Gortmaker's review of Barbara Solomon's EXITS EXIST exhibition: "Solomon’s 21st-century….
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Check out our newest piece, Chris Gortmaker's review of Barbara Solomon's EXITS EXIST exhibition: "Solomon’s 21st-century modernism lies in the specifically aesthetic way her work’s unity of form and content makes escape and existence thinkable together.”.
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Our newest piece—Teddy Duncan Jr.'s review of What You Make of Me by Sophie Madeline Dess—is now live!. “The best we can do is engage in the (necessarily failed) project of exhausting all the representations of another—to try to index that which is lost.".
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Sophie Madeline Dess. What You Make of Me. Penguin Press, 2025. The human experience of loss (through whatever means) is precisely what it appears to be: an intolerable deprivation, a vacantness—a...
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RT @ASAP_Journal: Check out our newest feature: Itzel Corona Aguilar interviews artist and activist Maria Gaspar to discuss community build….
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Check out our newest feature: Itzel Corona Aguilar interviews artist and activist Maria Gaspar to discuss community building, imagining alternative futures of/through abolition, and constructing solidarity across time and space.
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RT @ASAP_Journal: In our latest review, Amanda Macedo Macedo examines time and crisis in Tania Ximena's La Marcha del Liquen (2024), arguin….
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Tania Ximena’s (Mexico b. 1985) La marcha del liquen (The Stride of Lichen, 2024) is a 29-minute experimental short that quietly unsettles our assumptions about distance, time, and environmental...
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In our latest review, Amanda Macedo Macedo examines time and crisis in Tania Ximena's La Marcha del Liquen (2024), arguing "No place, no matter how remote, is untouched by the global climate crisis.". Read more now on ASAP/Review!.
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Tania Ximena’s (Mexico b. 1985) La marcha del liquen (The Stride of Lichen, 2024) is a 29-minute experimental short that quietly unsettles our assumptions about distance, time, and environmental...
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In the latest review, Miya Shaffer explores dramaturgies of nothing in Alex Tatarsky’s "Nothing Doing" (2025) and.2girls1bottl3's TikTok videos. Read more now on ASAP/Review.
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In the opening scene of Nothing Doing (2025), Alex Tatarsky turns to reveal a mask attached to the back of their head. The mask creates a “double,” an additional persona occupying the performer’s...
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"I realized I was learning to tell stories from a place that didn’t represent me. [. ] As I began understanding my identity, I discovered I had other stories to tell.". Read Paul Noguerol's interview with Jules Mamone, known as Femimutancia, now. ⬇️.
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Jules Mamone, known as Femimutancia, is one of South America's most original graphic artists. A transfeminist non-binary Argentine artist, Mamone's work emerged during the wave of LGBTIQ+ activism...
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"Burton offers a timely and important framework for how prison rebellions [. ] are a method of analyzing and resisting state repression for today’s social movements.". Read Ekundayo Igeleke's review of Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear" (2023) now.
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Orisanmi Burton. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. University of California Press, 2023. In the first few pages of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicali...
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Amber Jamilla Musser reviews "A Body to Live In" (2025), directed by Angelo Madsen: "The film’s most intriguing complication of Musafar’s self-framing, however, comes from Musafar himself, via the self-portraits that he took throughout his life.".
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A Body to Live In (2025), the new documentary directed by Angelo Madsen, focuses on the life of Fakir Musafar and his pursuit of spiritual fulfillment through various forms of body modification.
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"Though the region varies greatly in its landscape and social makeup, coastal communities like Crystal Cove tell stories of nature on their highly cultivated surface." . Read Nick Earhart's feature "Real Estate Ecologies: The Case of Orange County" now.
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“The house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories, and dreams of mankind.” —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space Fifty miles south of Los Angeles, at the edge of...
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“Like trap music itself, 'Atlanta' coalesces its storyworld from the remaindered spoils of the entertainment industry’s strip-mining of the city.”. Read the latest feature "Disney Trap House, Or: 'Atlanta’s' Atlanta" by Mitch R. Murray now on ASAP/Review.
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“A Grotesque Disneyland” When recalling the infamous Atlanta child murders of 1979–81, James Baldwin described the city as “a kind of grotesque Disneyland.” This unwholesome carnival arose from a...
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Archita Arun reviews Amber Jamilla Musser’s "Between Shadows and Noise": "Attuning ourselves to the conditions that value some lives over others opens the possibilities of imagining alternate ways of being and becoming in the world.". Read more now. ⬇️.
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Amber Jamilla Musser. Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined. Duke University Press: 2024. Aesthetic representation often flattens difference in service of visibi...
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In the latest feature, @RahulSen_ explores Luca Guadagnino’s "Queer": "Guadagnino’s films touch upon the idea that the alterity of others is the greatest problem of love.". Read more now on ASAP/Review.
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“The status of the phallus is a fraud,” writes Jacqueline Rose. As such, castration is the other of the aesthetic. While castration separates and subtracts, the aesthetic totalizes and encloses.
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Shannon Constantine reviews Leah Modigliani’s "Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City": "As Modigliani’s artists and protesters show us, possibilities for alternative worldmaking and imaginaries lie in the everyday". Read more now on ASAP/Review.
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Leah Modigliani. Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action. Routledge: 2023. Borders, barricades, and walls have long served as...
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