Alex Wilk
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Alex Wilk works as an independent researcher and has professional experience in arts publishing. She is currently an editorial assistant at the photography and visual culture journal Archivo Platform. She also works as a research assistant for the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and previously for the designer Cecil Balmond. Alex was an editor of Balmond Studio’s e-journal Thinking in Practice and led the production of Balmond’s book Crossover (Prestel, 2013). Alex’s research takes visual and textual formats: she has taken part in art residency programmes, exhibitions and has published articles. Underpinning her interests is an exploration of the cultural construction of nature, voice and the subject from posthumanist and feminist perspectives. Alex holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Changing a town by the dint of your running. This is what happened to Leadville, Colorado, after a 100-mile running competition was organised there in 1983. So how does sport transform cities? Ultramarathon runner and writer Filippo Caon recounts his first-hand experience of sport-focused places, from the Rocky Mountains of… Read more »
‘Philosophical History of the Centuries to Come’ is an 1860 political, proto-sci-fi work by Italian writer Ippolito Nievo. The novel satirically describes aspects of the history of humanity until the year 2222, notably anticipating actual world events, including the construction of the Isthmus of Suez, the uprisings leading to the… Read more »
Spaces can work like archives, where access to information is granted or protected depending on the institutional frameworks at play. Resulting from the author’s runs in lockdown Atlanta with only a phone at hand, this photo essay by Ryland Johnson gives us glimpses of shut-down corporate areas and warehouses which… Read more »