Publications

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Publications ✿

Over the years, I’ve written everything from art criticism to fiction, reportage and personal essays – all of which are listed below.

My work has introduced me to Ukrainian NFT activists, striking gig workers and canceled contemporary art curators. I’ve plundered the depths of culture, dancing at the ABBA hologram concert in London, clunkily golf carting over the cobblestone streets of Kraków’s Holocaust tourism industry, and shivering through a rained-out performance art piece along the canals of Copenhagen.

I’ve been described as “entertainment’s foremost intellectual,” but I see myself as more “nihilist valley girl.” Valley woman. You get it.

Reportage

• “Inflamed by the War in Gaza, Germany’s Art Scene Is Tearing Itself Apart” for ARTnews (April 4, 2024)

• “How Mutual Aid Organizing Is Supporting Ukraine Refugees” for Teen Vogue (December 15, 2022)

• “Does the world need a ‘Disney for mental health’?” for Sifted (September 23, 2022)

• “How A Radical NFT Project Is Fighting To Save Ukraine” for VICE (May 19, 2022)

• “A Look At CalFLEXI: Long Beach’s Experiment With Government-Run Gig Work” for NextCity (July 19, 2021)

• “NOTES ON ANXIOUS CITIES: A Pre & Post Election U.S.” for Arts of the Working Class (November 26, 2020)

• “Meet The Gig Workers Collective: 11 Women Who Organize Nationwide Strikes But Have Never Met” for NextCity (May 21, 2020)

Essays

• “Redefining the Self-Portrait” for Fotografiska (February 2024)

• “Energy Anxiety” for Dissent (March 9, 2023)

• “ABBAtars” for DIRT (September 9, 2022)

• “The climate is changing. Science fiction is too.” for The Story (June 30, 2022)

• “Sanctions Explained” for DIRT (March 8, 2022)

• “Work (Even the Creative Kind) Won’t Love You Back” for Hyperallergic (June 2, 2021)

• “Beautiful Nothing, But Nothing Nonetheless” for X-Tra Contemporary Art Journal (March 18, 2021)

• “Ambiguity City: The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin” for The New Inquiry (June 30, 2020)

• “(We)Work is a Scam” for Current Affairs (January 21, 2020)

• “Why Berlin Artists Are Transforming Trash Into Sculpture” for Artsy (December 27, 2019)

• “In Search of Gloria Camiruaga, A Lesser-Known Pioneer of Chilean Video Art” for Another Gaze (summer 2019)

• “When Tragedy Strikes, Social Media Posts Can Become Invaluable Artifacts” for Hyperallergic (June 25, 2019)

• “Of Carts and Cobblestones: Views on Jewish Identity in Present-Day Kraków” for Take Shape (summer 2018)

Contributions to Edited Books and Catalogues

• “Emily Ludwig Shaffer: Bringing the Outside In” for Peres Projects at 20 Years (Berlin: Peres Projects, 2022)

Art Criticism

• “Barbora Žilinskaitė: It’s a kind of Magic” for Art Focus Now (March 6, 2024)

• “WE ARE NOT THE LAST: On the Exhibition ‘Artists in a Time of War’ at Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy” for Arts of the Working Class (August 3, 2023)

• “Emily Ludwig Shaffer Dissolves the Domicile” for Frieze (December 21, 2022)

• “Tresor 31’s Adrenaline-Pumping Exhibition Educates as Much as It Provokes” for Resident Advisor (July 18, 2022)

• “8 Standout Artists and Collectives at Documenta 15” for Artsy (July 6, 2022)

• “How Do We Know What’s Real In the Era of the Deepfake?” for Hyperallergic (April 25, 2022)

• “‘The Earth is Trembling’: Édouard Glissant in Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist” for 032c (December 20, 2021)

• “Critic’s Pick: Tom Anholt” for Artforum (fall 2021)

• “Nautical Nirvana: Another Map To Nevada, Copenhagen” for Spike Art Magazine (October 19, 2021)

• “Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, the Rogue Archivist” for ArtReview (September 14, 2021)

• “‘The Displacement Effect’ at Capitain Petzel, Berlin” for Spike Art Magazine (July 29, 2021)

• “A Scuffle Over Anti-Fascist Art in a German Museum, Explained” for Hyperallergic (October 12, 2020)

• “Critic’s Pick: Otto Zitko” for Artforum (fall 2020)

• “A Comics Series Offers An Exercise In Optimism” for Hyperallergic (June 4, 2020)

• “Lawrence Abu Hamdan Knits Language to Power” for Hyperallergic (March 13, 2020)

• “Under a Conservative Regime: ‘Niepodległe: Women, Independence, and National Discourse’ at Museum of Modern Art Warsaw” for AfterAll (February 28, 2020)

• “Between Familial and World-Historical: The Legacy of Chantal Akerman” for The Nation (December 13, 2019)

• “Enter an Eerie Nowhere Land, Where the Mundane Meets the Mythic” for Hyperallergic (November 22, 2019)

• “The Desire to ‘Undo’ Giving Birth” for Hyperallergic (October 7, 2019)

• “Boris Lurie at Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków” for ArtReview (March 12, 2019)

• “Haegue Yang - Museum Ludwig, Cologne” for ArtReview (fall 2018)

Interviews

• “Are Memes Praxis?: A Conversation with Cem A. AKA @freeze_magazine about the liminal contemporary and the meaninglessness of artspeak” for Arts of the Working Class (November 18, 2022)

• “The Life-Saving Tao of Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors” for MEL Magazine (March 2022)

• “Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are A ‘Poverty Trap’” for VICE (February 11, 2022)

• “The Care We Want – Designing A Better World for People with Disabilities: Emily Barker Interviewed” for Variable West (September 30, 2021)

• “The View From Here: Berlin Curators on Showing Video Art During a Pandemic” for Millennium Film Journal (fall/spring 2020)

• “In This Graphic Memoir, The Anxiety of OCD Is A Visual Trip” for MEL Magazine (September 27, 2020)

Miscellaneous

• “Bringing the Garden into the Darkroom: An Exploration of Eco-Processing Film from Phytograms to Organic Developers” for Arts of the Working Class (April 15, 2020)

• “Vinegar Syndrome” for Acid League (summer 2019)