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Robert Assaye is a writer and critic living in London.

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Issy Wood, When You I Feel

Art Review

December 2017

Robert Assaye

Art Review

December 2017

At the centre of Issy Wood’s solo exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa is a room-within-a room. The division of the gallery into two viewing spaces –...

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April 2017

'Learning from Athens'

Robert Assaye

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April 2017

The history of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition founded in the German city of Kassel in 1955, is...

21 April   Imagine a passport to get into the house Trump announces ‘the suspension of immigration, unprecedented measures in the United States’ One morning coffee, Nescafé classic; then another ‘These measures were not even taken during the Second World War’ Flights cancelled in Europe, borders again etc Apparently swallows can stay in the air for up to 10 months without touching down on land A practical system in 2020 At two coffees, the morning begins to have the minimum light required for the head of a living subject Somebody talks about swallowing up the world and then spitting it out No one from outside can come in Anybody is a potential enemy The bunker is an architecture of politics, as of March 2020 Apply the system to each state, then to each city, then to each neighbourhood, then to each house The house: nobody from outside can come in Banning immigration At most, only those from inside can come in But whoever is inside can’t come in, that would be too stupid, they’re inside already Passport shown outside, at the window, to be able to get the door open Jastrow’s ambiguous figure: the look is deceptive If you look to the left you see a duck; if you look to the right, a rabbit There’s not much point Oktoberfest beer festival cancelled Pope postpones World Youth Day to 2023 And petrol sold this Monday at negative prices The whole mix of new stories of the highest and lowest importance at a great gallop is a kind of censorship through speed Speed covers up with the advantage of seeming to show What is important is not covered or hidden: it is just putting speed into the legs or the motor of what is important so that it’s quickly off the stage How many dead today and what was the final score in the match? 2-0? A video of Bob Dylan

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August 2014

Robert Assaye

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August 2014

Robert Assaye is a writer and critic living in London.

New Communities

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January 2017

Robert Assaye

Art

January 2017

DeviantArt is the world’s ‘largest online community of artists and art-lovers’ and its thirteenth largest social network. Its forty million members contribute to a...
The Land Art of Julie Brook

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Issue No. 4

Robert Assaye

Art

Issue No. 4

Julie Brook works with the land. Over the past twenty years she has lived and worked in a succession of inhospitable locations, creating sculptures...

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September 2015

Immigrant Freedoms

Benjamin Markovits

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September 2015

My grandmother, known to us all as Mutti, caught one of the last trains out of Gotenhafen before the...

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April 2017

Everywhere and Nowhere

Vahni Capildeo

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April 2017

Part of my reluctance to write on citizenship is that as a poet, a worker in delicate, would-be-truthful language,...

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February 2013

Famous Tombs: Love in the 90s

Masha Tupitsyn

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February 2013

‘However, somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate—’ Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll   I. BEGINNING  ...

 

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