Open Space

THE CRADLE

Anna Atkins, Asplenium radicans , ca. 1850 In July, just before the beginning of hurricane season, Open Space managing editor Gordon...

ROCKY RIVERA'S DEFINITION OF LOVE

Rocky Rivera at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. All photos: Pendarvis Harshaw. For the next few months, I'll be doing audio interviews...

RETHINK: WEB

Graphic: Omar Mohammad. When we struggle to explain the inherent qualities of a medium, we tend to defer to analogies and metaphors....

THE POETRY BROTHEL PROBLEM

Joseph Liatela, Untitled XI , 2016. Courtesy of the artist. A couple years ago The Third Thing , my messy feminist performance art...

A FILM ABOUT BLEEDING, COMPOSED OF PREVIOUSLY DISCARDED FRAGMENTS

Author's note: Significant trigger warnings for sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, and sexual abuse by a medical practitioner. My...

SEGO LILY

I am Mandan and Hidatsa from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Western ND, as well as German from Eastern ND. Fort Berthold is...

WITH REGARD TO CLEVELAND

I begin by thanking: Kat Burdine , Lauren Davies , Elizabeth Emery , Sarah Kabot , Amanda King , Kelley O'Brien , Jessica Pinsky ,...

WHAT THE FOUNDATION LOOKS LIKE: TOM DUFF AND TIM PERKIS IN CONVERSATION

Tom Duff programming on a sound stage at Kerner Boulevard in San Rafael. I met Tom Duff in his living room a few years ago. I was...

THE DETROIT UNDERCOMMONS

All photos: Taylor Renee Aldridge. they had this thing about darkness. the bottom of the ocean, outer space. they were afraid of it,...

ART IN THE TIME OF ART-WASHING

A public gathers for Dirty Looks On Location's presentation of All the Films of Xandra Ibarra at Redz Angelz Bar in Boyle Heights....

AQUÍ LA GENTE NO SE CORRE, NI SE VIENE, NI SE VA

PLASTIC BAY

October 25, 2015 Middle Harbor Shoreline Park at the Port of Oakland, four years after cops raid Occupy Oakland. It's overcast and...

FEATURED ORGANIZATION: LAND AND SEA

Cedar Sigo and Frank Haines' book release performance at LAND AND SEA, March 4, 2017. All photos: Chris Duncan. When was LAND AND...

KAREN SENEFERU'S DEFINITION OF LOVE

Karen Seneferu posted on her old-school ride, sunglasses on and chilling in style. All photos: Pendarvis Harshaw. For the next few...

EVERYTHING FLOWS

Click any image to enlarge. Timothy Morton. The Ecological Thought . Harry Dodge. The River of the Mother of God . Paul B. Preciado....

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF TRASH: ON REJECTING ANTI-BLACKNESS IN THE MOST RACIST CITY YOU'VE EVER LIVED IN

Perhaps you know what I affectionately refer to as trash as the precariat: that portmanteau of “precarious” and “proletariat.” Or as...

COLUMNISTS IN RESIDENCE: FALL 2018

Our Fall 2018 columnists in residence are artist, writer, and reproductive justice activist Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta , journalist and...

THERE ARE NO IDEAS IN POETRY

Painting is made of a variety of languages yet no singular language is used. At a certain point nothing can be used. At another point...

DECOLONIZING THE ORCHESTRA: SARAH CARGILL & KELLY LOVEMONSTER IN CONVERSATION

All photos from But Tell Me What It Feels Like at SOMArts Cultural Center, May 4, 2018, unless otherwise noted. Above: Leviathe, Tendercunt...

AMITIÉ: MERET OPPENHEIM'S MISS GARDENIA

Meret Oppenheim, Miss Gardenia , 1962 A small object can pull you toward it like a magnet. I'm partial to the experience of seeing...