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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 pretence. 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 Tony Gum, Rashaad Newsome, Jessica Lange, Malick Sidibé, Michael Avedon, Lucas Blalock, Marylin Minter and Alex Prager, who each embrace performance as a space for negotiating alternate and possible realit(ies). Their works are a reminder of how the line between reality and performance is just opposite sides of the same coin.

IN THIS ISSUE
Adam Broomberg, Carlos Martiel, Kudzanai Chiurai, Mary Sibande, Mikhael Subotzky, Nobukho Nqaba, Sue WIlliamson, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Tony Gum, Alec Soth, Alex Prager, Calida Rawles, Jeff Wall, Jessica Lange, Marilyn Minter, Malick Sidibé, Michael Avedon, Rashaad Newsome, Vince Aletti, Zanele Muholi, Charlie Engman, Deana Lawson, Gauri Gill, Jill Greenberg, Lucas Blalock, Beeple, Sandro Miller, Thomas Struth

312 pages
9 x 11.75 inches
Full color on Mohawk uncoated paper
Perfect bound
Printed in California
Publication date: June 2022