Mire Lee’s “Black Sun” Invites New Museum Visitors Into a Sweaty, Unwiped Asshole
Art

Mire Lee’s “Black Sun” Invites New Museum Visitors Into a Sweaty, Unwiped Asshole

Late last month, I nearly passed out at a concert. My senses fuzzed blank, dominated by the earsplitting, hypnotic wrath of the droning cacophony erupting from the stage courtesy of Nordra, the solo project/assault of Zen Mother’s disarmingly petite in contrast to her aural fury, Monika Khot, who opened for Zola Jesus (whose band Khot … Continue reading

Sex by a Thousand Cuts: David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future”
Film

Sex by a Thousand Cuts: David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future”

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future presents us with a decaying modern civilization seamlessly coinciding with the moldy wear and tear of contemporary Athens — a fitting shooting location for a sci-fi dystopia that forgoes the polished surfaces, spacefaring, and multiverse traversal that other sci-fi dystopias depict. This version of the future offers up a … Continue reading