Artist, educator, writer, activist, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors discusses the history of BLM, the prejudice against the movement, the deep trauma wound represented by the Trump regime, and how these issues are embedded in her artistic and pedagogic practices.

The northeast is all too frequently portrayed as an area of economic ruin, rampant crime, and a decadent scrabble to live. Media and popular representations of the region are often abrasive and flattened. It’s a stereotype with which Ban Yu dissents.

Cui Jie, an artist who came of age in the 1980s and 90s, shows a keen grasp on the various architectural patterns that have had a profound effect on the rapid renewal and expansion process of Chinese cities, and is adept at selectively harking back to these precedents of modernization in her painting and sculptural practice, thus triggering a momentary sense of the immediate future.

Founded in 2012 when its three members reunited in Saigon, Art Labor was borne of a shared interest in interdisciplinary collaborations that experimentally and exigently test the social parameters of art. As Art Labor works with and through communities, their artistic practice is not characterized by creative ownership over self-made art objects, but rather by long-term social engagement and intangible, interpersonal bonds.

LEAP discusses with the curator Cuauhtémoc Medina the complex web of references in his curatorial and research work.