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Author Archives: Anthony Hawley
Anthony Hawley is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and writer. Recent solo projects were presented by the Salina Art Center; CounterCurrent in partnership with the Menil Collection & Aurora Picture Show; and Spazju Kreattiv in Malta. In addition to Hyperallergic, his writings on art and film appear in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Modern Painters, and elsewhere. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, and a forthcoming artist book, A Book of Spells. Along with violinist Rebecca Fischer, he forms one half of The Afield, a performance collaboration for violin, video, and electronics. He teaches in the Hunter College MFA Studio Art Program.
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Monstrous Mutations (Part 2): From the Fascist State to Radical Hospitality
It wasn’t “just a jacket.”
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Monstrous Mutations (Part 1): From Spam Scams to Tweets
With their awkward syntax and frequent misspellings, the president’s tweets aren’t too far from the language of spam.
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Future Dread
Twitter, in the hands of Trump and the Republicans, is a way of postulating speculative fictions, — the worries and woes of possible future perfects.
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The Big Leader’s Morning Message
Citizens plug cords into their forearms, lie back, and await the word of the day.
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The Stones Are Burning
The waves were slow, but persistent, giving us ample time to prepare for extinction.
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A Fog of Now
In its attempts to aestheticize mass destruction and memorialize the aftermath, Central Command delivers a clunky outtake of our near-nuclear demise.
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To Haunt Us Out of Now
If this kind of wacko fear-mongering is part of the new American norm, I think the best thing art can do is spook us out of this existence.