What does performance mean to us in a world of mediated presence? It’s easy to look at performance as a departure from authenticity, as an act of pretense. Yet every social interaction is operating on some level of performativity: from the way we text or the clothes we wear, the impression we make on others is manipulated by our conscious act of self-creation. The act of putting on a show is thus not distancing from authenticity, but it can glean us into the very heart of life, existence, and its contended truths. Issue No. 27: Performance features 10 artists, 8 spotlight artists and 30 emerging photographers including Malick Sidibé, Alec Soth, Michael Avedon, and Marilyn Minter. The issue asks what the significance of performance might mean for these individual artists’ own relationship with themselves and the world. $40.00 Print Edition
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GUEST EDITOR VINCE ALETTI If the portraits on these pages look odd, it’s because they were not made in a moment like conventional photographs. Instead, they were made over a period of time sometimes as long as half an hour, accumulating information second by second. |
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| WITNESS: AFRO PERSPECTIVES Cover artist Tony Gum’s performance is one of reckoning history, as she dons a traditional Xhosa head wrap while white paint spills from her breasts, a symbolic image gesturing to the centuries-long pillage of Black bodies when white mothers forced their female slaves to breastfeed their children. |
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| RASHAAD NEWSOME: AN ARCHIVAL TAPESTRY For the black queer artist Rashaad Newsome, his own understanding of reality through performance goes in the opposite direction, towards the future, as he incorporates CGI with voguing to experiment with physicality. |
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| JESSICA LANGE: LIFE IS A CIRCUS Performance is interactive, and what enables the forming of human relations, as evinced in the photographs of the actress Jessica Lange on the set of American Horror Story, capturing the performances of her fellow actors and actresses. |
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Plus features with Adam Broomberg, Malick Sidibé, Alec Soth, Alex Prager, Michael Avedon, Calida Rawles, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Marilyn Minter, Zanele Muholi, Jeff Wall, and more! The artists in this issue each individually play with the complexities of performance, posing their own answer to what it means to them. Flipping through the colorful and elaborate pages of the issue, we think of all the artists that have put on a magnificent performance to create the images we see, and we are so grateful for their work. |
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EMERGING ARTISTS Alex Stoddard, Aline Smithson, Angelika Kollin, Argus Paul Estabrook, Carlo Traini, Christos J. Palios, Diana Cheren Nygren, Dmitry Kokh, Eeva Hannula, Emily Larsen, Eran Gilat and Sefi Sendik, Hector Beunfil Palacios, Hoije Nuuter, Hyunmin Ryu, Jacques Morel, Jiageng Lin, Lindsey Rickert, Lucy Black, Melissa Lynn, Michael Jantzen, Mirielle Rohr, Niels Kiené Salventius, Peter Franck, Rosaria Sabrina Pantano, Shawn Bush, Shawn Fende, Vanessa Brici, and Yi Hsuan Lai In every issue, Musée Magazine takes great pride in accepting submissions from an array of up-and-coming photographers, who by and large are not represented by either agents, or galleries. We feel very strongly that a genre of art is only as strong as those that are yet to come. And like every art form, photography is defined as much by its future as it is by its present, or past. |
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| Limited copies of the print edition of MUSÉE ISSUE 25 — CURATION are still available. Issue 25 explores what it means to be a curator in the art world — and how it is far more than taste-making. Don't miss out! |
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