ArtReview’s September 2017 issue features the work of Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito. Musician, performance artist, stand-up comedian – Mosquito invents multiple fictional personas to riff on global politics, the delusions of self-help, postcolonial power relations and the artworld. In Building Skyscrapers,Mosquito finds himself the tricky situation of doing a promo for a distracted and bored art journalist. It does not go well… (contains some strong language)
The late filmmaker’s work asked whether institutions can leave room for human compassion and dignity – and presented an antidote to our messy, distracted times
The emergence of Moltbook is one of thousands of AI projects whose greater accomplishments are not technological, or even business-related, but rhetorical
The Once and Future Riot isn’t so much a history of a single catastrophic event as it is a portrait of how people justify hatred and rationalise cruelty
