state wax, state wane. step by step i am terrified bottled light inside the body scan blinking nerves wonder the hands & feet i splay i split at pelvic wish full …
Jongo & Adriano – Chapter 2: To Pray or Prey Upon
The following excerpt hails from Jongo & Adriano, a fotonovela by Brazilian artist Yhuri Cruz featuring two Black lovers who escape enslavement, one African-born and the other a Brazilian criollo. “Whatever resemblance these characters bare to historical fact might not be a coincidence,” Cruz …
All Winter Long | At the Edge of England | Auguries | Bittern | MRI | Song of the Reed
All Winter Long the wood frogs lie in wait, frozen so hard if dropped. they’d clink. Inside their cells something is waiting waiting for spring a change of key before they wake and sing …
Gocce | Lettera e lettere | Il Bambino Verde | Il Colore negli Occhi | Città nelle città
Gocce Pioveva, ad aghi sottili e taglienti. Le gocce si confondevano col grigio uniforme della nuvolaglia compatta e liscia. Cadevano appena inclinate, senza sosta, e sembrava che la pioggia non dovesse mai cessare. Ma una …
In Memory of Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
The editorial board communicates with deep regret the recent loss of our founding editor Gabriela Dragnea Horvath. Gabriela founded Voyages in 2013 and since then has been the driving force behind this journal, in all …
I feel the future in the instant: Magic and Time Control in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Introductory note Magic, understood as man’s will to power, includes the attempt to control time. The text below examines this issue in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, linking it to the author’s cultural context. This discourse is not …
Interview with John Lloyd: A New Humanism?
The centrality of the human being underpinning modernity is being challenged by biology on one hand and technology on the other. Is the formulation of a new humanism necessary, and if the answer is affirmative, …
Some Thoughts on Ethics and the Pandemic
On 5 April 2020, Belly Mujinga, a forty-seven-year-old London transport worker, died of Covid-19. According to her own account, she was infected at work in Victoria Station, where a passenger told her that he had …
Thresholds
1980-2020 cm. 200X120, 125×85 C-prints, front mounted to plexiglas, back mounted to Dibond C-prints, back mounted to Dibond, framed Thresholds are works from the 80’s to the present that explore the notions of limit, absence …
The Radetzky March
In the year of 1848 Josef Radetzky, field marshal of the Austro-Hungarian empire, subjugated the Italian armies at Santa Lucia (May 6th), Curtatone (May 29th), Vicenza (June 11th), Palmanova (June 25th), and Custoza (July 23th–25th). …
Language Eludes Me
Nel mese di settembre 2022 si è svolta presso la galleria d’arte contemporanea Cartavetra a Firenze una residenza d’artista con evento espositivo finale che ha visto coinvolti otto studenti del mio corso di Grafica d’arte …
A Song Cycle for South Western Australia
SONG CYCLE PART ONE (i) SETTING OUT— we first went south Evacuees in wartime we first went south …