ASAP/Journal

ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts.

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“MOCA refashions [Monuments] to reflect on the possibilities and limits of resistance ... ”

Read our newest review by Will Clark on the Monuments exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

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“Few literary critics have conveyed such intellectual energy and integrity. I see Personal Demons everywhere.”

Check out our newest ASAP/Review essay, out now! Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews *Personal Demons,* by Grace Lavery. Read it now!

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Check out our newest Provocations essay on Amy De'Ath's *Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction*—out now! Featuring Sarah Dowling (@sarahmdowling1), Fintan Calpin, Frances Jean Wohlscheid, and Anna Zalokostas (@azalokos): https://t.co/7yVuiO1UCZ

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“Jana Euler turns exhibition architecture into a spatial instrument, making bodily passage a condition of painting.”

Margherita Artoni reviews Jana Euler’s installation, *Triptych — Image Viewer Connections* in our newest essay, out now!

https://t.co/tIXx4uAq6m

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Our newest review by Gryphon Rue reads the relations between Paul Thek, Alex Da Corte, & The Tomb: “Thek wove striking yet ambiguous relationships, crisscrossing time and space, into a charged, associative field..."

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“These incomplete listening projects tell us there is more variation in the act of communicating than machines assume.”

In our newest essay, Cheng Mun Chang examines the relationship between sounds & language in Dial-A-Poem Hong Kong & Project Hail Mary.

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"The book’s gesture to articulate narratives around automobiles and roads from across different latitudes of capitalist development novels is urgent and necessary . . . "

Check out our review by Adriana Johnson of Cartographies of Empire!

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“Relation is not a theme to be curated but a practice to cultivate, sustained through attention, material, and form.”

Our newest review on the 2026 Whitney Biennial by Evelyn Hanyue Qin is out now!

https://t.co/TaRO38oeez

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Chengbao Seong-Bo Jin writes Critical Dreaming “makes its sharpest intervention not by inaugurating anticolonial critique within feminist performance studies [...] by reorganizing that conversation along two axes the field has only begun to inhabit...“
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Grace Tierney looks at Francisco Roble’s book, *Coalition Literature: Aesthetics on the Move in Midcentury Multiethnic Writing,* and how it “offers a future for art that expresses and inspires effective protest, drawing on twentieth-century leftist power.”
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“Unknowing Hong Kong enacts a refusal to fall into totalizing narratives…”

Wenxuan Xue reviews Alvin K. Wong’s *Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone*—so go check out our newest publication now live!

https://t.co/515YqkQMD1

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“The history of fashion is not only written in fabrics, but also in images.”

Out now: Rong Wang reviews the “Yves Saint Laurent and Photography” exhibition, which opened at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in collab with Musée YSL: https://t.co/Lyz0b2Pw9l

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“What is commitment in a world without belief, what is rigor when irony seems to be intellect’s only honest posture?”

Katherine C. M. Adams reviews two pieces—my tongue is a blade and Gangsterism—in our newest uncanny juxtaposition. Check it out now!

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Read our newest review by Vivian Jin, out now, to read about *Diagrams: A Project by AMO/OMA* and how the “exhibition both demystifies the diagram’s authority and operates by it.”

Link: https://t.co/qOq5zW8fzK

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“Published 1 year after the artist’s passing, Performing Chance creates a significant shift in the scholarship surrounding Knowles and her contemporaries..."

Vuk Vuković reviews NL Woods’s *Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus*

https://t.co/GDkS5BYgVT

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Our newest feature—on AI, writing, and the myth of the author genius—by Ryan Prewitt and K. Wilson, is now out! Read it: “we might learn from the past how to prioritize writing as a practice for the public, rather than an expression of private genius.”

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“Wilson’s Whale Oil stylizes the stages of multiple, overlapping crises, it is a moment to reflect on blockages and breakages that might seem impossible to imagine.”

Read our newest review, by Benjamin Williams, of Devin Wilson's *Whale Oil*—out now!

https://t.co/QWCmf50onT

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Writing in brief yet astute aperçus, Kaitlin Roberts reads moments and scenes from Leonora Carrington’s life that interweave with her own: phone wallpapers, museum exhibits, street billboards, historical texts, search engine results . . .

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Ariel Nereson reviews Ben Spatz’s *Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research*, and finds the implication that “performance studies has yet to embrace the radical potential of its core belief.”

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