It’s a pandemic! A Drunk Pandemic! Leading the September issue of ArtReview is a special project by Chim↑Pom that spreads from the cover deep into the pages of the magazine, connecting the dots between Europe’s nineteenth-century cholera epidemics, beer-brewing, urine and contemporary Tokyo’s sewage system. A different kind of contamination is at the heart of a feature considering the cross-pollination of Brazil’s musical and artistic scenes with political resistance, from the era of Bossa Nova to today.
Meanwhile, Chris Fite-Wassilak wonders whether a tendency towards the use of voiceovers in recent video art is a conscious response to the wider political climate in which ‘everyone is angling to speak over, on top or past each other, just not to each other’. Profiles of Rayyane Tabet and Dayanita Singh look at artistic strategies that attempt to offset assumptions and firmly delineated contours: the Beirut-based Tabet by playing on slippage between form and narrative, object and context; and New Delhi-nativ
