In this conversation, Sepake Angiama, Clare Butcher, Brian McBay, and Jesse McKee discuss 221A’s recent transformation into “Pollyanna,“ a research-focused library that took part in documenta 14’s experimental education program “aneducation“. “Pollyana“ highlights the value of libraries as public spaces of learning, organizing and imagining.

This article is a review of “Primary Research Lab, Minimalist Labs and Field Research”, a group exhibition that also featured live performances and events. This show took place from June 25 to August 30, 2016 at Bellingham’s Western Gallery in Western Washington University.

Jesse Mckee’s feature essay looks at countercultures through a forum he organized at Presentation House Gallery (Vancouver), which includes Dollarton Pleasure Faire photographs, Buckminster Fuller, Videofreex. Mckee looks at leadership, or lack thereof in the proliferation of resistance movements with Howard Caygill’s On Resistance and Michael Hardt’s recent lecture The Leadership Problem on the democratization of structures in movements in the 60s and 70s.

The article reviews the exhibition “Le son du projecteur” at the Optica in Montreal, Quebec in 2009.

The article reviews the exhibition “Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum, in New York City

The article reviews the 7th Gwangju Biennale in Korea, featuring works by Adel Abdessemed, Francis Al¯s, Kaoru Arima, Sadie Benning, Nina Canell, Eunji Cho, Seoyoung Chung, Thomas Demand, Seamus Farell, Hans Haacke, Donghee Koo, David Lamelas, Ken Lum, Mona Marzouk, Gordon Matta-Clark, Steve McQueen, Apinan Poshyanada, LÍappartement 22, Jewyo Rhii, Joachim Sch_nfeldt, Kohei Yoshiyuki, and Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan, among others.

The article discusses the highlights of the Nought to Sixty program of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, England, including the work of Sarah Pierce. The institution showcased 60 projects in six months from artists and art centers based in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. There were two solo exhibitions and features such as panels, salons, performances, and screenings.

The article reviews the exhibition “Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art,” fat the Barbican Art Gallery in London, England, curated by Lydia Yee & Francesco Manacorda, featuring works by Marina Abramovic, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, John Bock, Chris Burden, Spartacus Chetwynd, Christo & Jean-Claude, Barbra Hepworth, Luis Jacob, Brian Jungen, Mike Kelley, Piero Manzoni, Andy Warhol, among other artists.

The article reviews the solo exhibition of Pablo Bronstein at Paternoster Square in London, England. The exhibition continues the artist’s dialogue with the formal vocabularies of dance and architecture.