X-TRA
Volume 20, number 2
Winter 2018
Announcing the second issue of X-TRA Volume 20.
This year marks X-TRA’s 20th anniversary! Look forward to special projects and programming throughout the year.
In this issue: the second installment of our ARTIST WRITES series with a new essay by Andrea Fraser and Artist’s Project from Devon Tsuno.
Travis Diehl explores visions of a border wall in his review of Ronald Rael’s Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for U.S.–Mexico Boundary.
ARTIST WRITES, No. 2
Andrea Fraser ruminates on the work of Pierre Bourdieu in the current political climate in Toward a Reflexive Resistance.
Anna Mayer reviews Machine Project’s tome, Machine Project: The Platinum Collection (Live Bszy Special Request).
Andy Campbell on the work of Sherin Guirguis.
Devon Tsuno’s original origami insert Senbikigoi (One Thousand Carp)
Andrew Stefan Weiner reflects on what it means to make art now in his feature Emergency, Resistance, Futurity: Aesthetic Responses to Trumpism.
Gwyneth Shanks digs deep into Rafa Esparza and Rebeca Hernandez’s building: a simulacrum of power
Daniel Spaulding reviews Jacqueline de Jong at Château Shatto, Los Angeles.
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X-TRA is a quarterly contemporary art journal, based in Los Angeles and founded in 1997. Edited by a collective of artists and writers, X-TRA publishes expansive features, historical essays, commissioned artist’s projects, interviews, columns, and substantive reviews.
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X-TRA is published by the nonprofit Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism, which is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America, Michael Asher Foundation, Pasadena Art Alliance, The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, California Arts Council, the Center for Cultural Information and our patrons and subscribers.