Alex Wilk
Alex Wilk works between research, design and publishing for the arts. She is a freelance researcher for the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and was an editorial assistant at the photography and visual culture journal Archivo Platform. Previously, Alex worked as a reseacher for architectural designer, Cecil Balmond and led the production of his monograph Crossover (Prestel, 2013). She was also an editor of Balmond Studio’s e-journal Thinking in Practice. Alex’s personal research takes visual and textual formats: she has taken part in art residency programmes, exhibitions and enjoys writing articles. Alex holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Despite being one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the few with no Amtrak train transit. While you cannot get in or out of the city by train, it does have a humble light rail system, built in the face of public… Read more »

Until not so long ago, by sailing the northern seas, one could glimpse entire islands appearing and then suddenly vanishing among the tides. But these floating territories, at times even added to maps, may in fact have been the gargantuan body of the Kraken, a legendary monster with multiple arms,… Read more »

On the island of Malakula, part of the nation of Vanuatu, when the time is deemed right by their elders, the youth of the community partake in a coming-of-age ceremony to become manples: literally “men-place.” Anthropologist Jacopo Baron reflects on his personal involvement in these rituals and on the profound… Read more »