Contributors

Kareem Rabie is an assistant professor of anthropology at the American University in Washington, D.C. He is currently completing a book, Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Private Development and State Building in the West Bank (Duke University Press), and beginning new research on the economic geographies of Palestine-China trade. His writing can be found in publications including the New Left Review, Jacobin, the Arab Studies Journal, and Jadaliyya.  

Jesselyn Radack is national security and human rights director for the Government Accountability Project. She works primarily with national security and intelligence community whistleblowers, and represented Thomas Drake in the government’s unsuccessful prosecution.  

Sara Greenberger Rafferty is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist. In 2011, she had solo exhibitions at the Suburban, in Chicago, and at Rachel Uffner Gallery, in New York. Rafferty has also had solo exhibitions at the Kitchen and MoMA PS1, both in New York. She is an assistant professor of art at Hampshire College. Website

Lucy Railton is a musician and composer from London who resides in Berlin. She recently released her first solo record, Paradise 94 (Modern Love), which melds explorations of the cello, a church organ, and vintage synthesizers with field recordings, found sounds, and musique concrète. Ranging from devotional music to auditory illusions, Paradise 94 fuses Railton’s classical training and her engagement with sound design, electronic music, improvisation, and noise. Beyond being a prolific performer and avid music curator, Railton's compositions for film, dance, and installation have been presented and commissioned by the Tate Modern (London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Dark Ecology at Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), and Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm). As an interpreter and performer, Railton has joined forces with musicians and artists such as Peter Zinovieff, Beatrice Dillon, and Philippe Parreno. For more than a decade, she has been dedicated to the performance of modern classical and experimental music, including works by Alvin Lucier, Giacinto Scelsi, Morton Feldman, and Pauline Oliveros. She also is cofounder of the London Contemporary Music Festival. Website

Yvonne Rainer is an American choreographer and filmmaker. Rainer transition to filmmaking in 1972, following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer. She made several experimental films including Lives of Performers (1972), Privilege (1990) and MURDER and murder (1996) before returning to dance in 2000. Her films and dances have been shown worldwide at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. She has received several National Foundation for the Arts Grants, two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, and a MacArthur Fellowship (1990) and is a distinguished professor emerita of studio art at the University of California, Irvine.  

Katie Raissian is editor-in-chief of STONECUTTER: A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE.  

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She works in installation, photography, printmaking, publication, and performance. She is on the faculty of the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts and also works as a social studies curriculum developer for New York public schools. Her work has been exhibited at the 2017 Venice Biennale, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Jack Shainman Gallery, the Queens Museum, the Bronx Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Weeksville Heritage Center, Project Row Houses, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and Pinchuk Art Centre, among other venues. She is the recipient of awards and honors including the Harpo Foundation Grant, Magnum Foundation Grant, Creative Exchange Lab at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art Residency, Smack Mellon Studio Residency, Queens Museum Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, Artadia Grant, Art Matters Grant, and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.  

Lisi Raskin ’s on-site research of Cold War relics has informed the making of drawings, objects, videos, and large, constructed environments that simultaneously quell and stimulate her fear of technological progress and pathology. She is currently working on a performance and a series of constructions designed to send healing energy into the past, present, and future. Raskin has exhibited her artwork at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, MoMA PS1, and the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. In 2009, Raskin participated in the Istanbul Biennial. Website

Ben Ratliff is the author of Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (2016), The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (2009), Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (2007), and Jazz: A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings (2002). He was a pop and jazz critic at the New York Times for twenty years and now teaches at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  

Lucy Raven is an artist who works with animation, installation, sound, and the live format of the illustrated lecture. Her films and installations have been shown internationally, most recently in solo exhibitions at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York; Portikus, Frankfurt; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She is cofounder, with Victoria Brooks and Evan Calder Williams, of Thirteen Black Cats, a research and production collective. She currently lives and works in New York and teaches at Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts. Website

Will Rawls is a choreographer, performer, writer and curator. His work has appeared at Danspace Project, the Brooklyn Museum, the Emily Harvey Foundation, the Chocolate Factory and Williams College, among other venues. As a dancer, Rawls has performed with many artists, including Jérôme Bel, Maria Hassabi, Neal Medlyn, David Neumann, Shen Wei Dance Arts, and Katie Workum. From 2006–2013, Rawls collaborated as one half of the performance duo Dance Gang with Kennis Hawkins. Rawls was a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow and is a 2014 LMCC Process Space Artist. Website

Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry, Facts for Visitors and Voyager, which probes this world’s cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. is the author of two books of poetry—Facts for Visitors (2004), and Voyager (2011)—both published by the University of California Press. His critical study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Creative Capital Foundation, Reddy is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.  

Mike Reed is a jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader of American and German nationality. He has played on more than fifteen albums, the most recent being Flesh and Bone (2017). Reed also produces live events and is the founding director of the Pitchfork Music Festival and owner of the Hungry Brain tavern in Chicago.  

Tomeka Reid is a cellist and composer who lives in New York, having recently moved from Chicago, where she was based for fifteen years. Reid has been a key member of ensembles led by musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and Nicole Mitchell, many of which are associated with Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. She is the coleader of the string trio Hear in Now. Reid released her debut recording as a bandleader in 2015 with the Tomeka Reid Quartet (Jason Roebke, Tomas Fujiwara, and Mary Halvorson). Reid is a 2016 recipient of a 3Arts Award in music and received her doctorate in music from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017.  

Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow, Coeur de Lion, Mercury, and the play Telephone and the translator of books by TIQQUN, Jean-Luc Hennig, and Charles Baudelaire. Website

Yael Reinharz is executive director of Artis, an independent nonprofit organization that broadens international awareness and understanding of contemporary art from Israel, and provides important resources, programs and platforms for artists and art professionals to develop lasting partnerships with the global art community.  

Nick Relph  

Sarah Resnick has published in n+1, Bookforum, Art in America, BOMB, and Triple Canopy, where she was previously an editor. Her writing was selected for 2017’s Best American Essays and for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. She lives in New York. Website

The Review of Contemporary Fiction was launched in 1981 to provide a critical discourse around innovative literary works of the highest caliber that have largely been ignored by the mainstream media. Over the years, the Review has provided an alternative canon for contemporary fiction and has introduced such writers as David Foster Wallace, David Markson, and Gilbert Sorrentino, well before they were embraced by the critical establishment. (Wallace served for a time as an editor of the journal, and guest-edited a “Future of Fiction” issue, in 1996.) The Review has also published numerous anthology issues dedicated to new writing from foreign countries, special issues dedicated to innovative publishers (Grove Press, Editions P.O.L), and special topic issues, including the present “Failure” issue. Website

Revolver is a Minneapolis-St. Paul literary arts organization, rousing creators since 2012. Revolver designs physical and digital environments for collaborations between artists and disciplines, as well as orchestrating low-risk, high-fun methods for the public to engage in a wide spectrum of creativity in the literary arts. Website

Lis Rhodes has been at the forefront of British experimental cinema since the early 1970s, working as part of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op and later cofounding Circles, the first organization in the UK dedicated to distributing artist's film and video made by women. She lives and works in London and teaches at Slade School of Fine Art.  

Taylor Richardson  

Emily Richardson lives and works in London. Her films are distributed by LUX and have been shown in galleries and at festivals internationally, including Tate Britain; Cafe Gallery Projects, London; Artists Space, New York; and the Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, and New York film festivals. Website

David Rieff is a journalist and author of books on immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.  

Larry Rinder Website

Riobamba is an Ecuadorian-Lithuanian producer, DJ, and cultural activist based in Brooklyn. Her rowdy, deeply-researched live sets harness nightlife’s power to ignite joy and resistance. She is a member of the techno-feminist booking agency Discwoman’s roster, and is founder of record label APOCALIPSIS, a platform celebrating works by those “ni de aquí, ni de allá.” She has recently shared the stage with Ivy Queen, Tego Calderón, Nina Sky, DJ Playero, Maluma, and DJ Blass. Performance highlights include Panorama Festival, MoMA PS1 Warm Up, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Boiler Room, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and Red Bull Festival Chile. Riobamba previously led A&R for Fania, was music editor at Remezcla, and prior to moving to NYC, she was the first Colombia-based Fulbright-mtvU researcher, studying the power of digital music as a subversive tool for healing the legacy of civil conflict and displacement.  

Andrew Ritchie is an artist and former editorial technologist of Triple Canopy. Website

Kari Rittenbach has written for Afterall, Artforum, Art Papers, Frieze, Paper Monument, and Texte zur Kunst. She has organized exhibitions and events at SculptureCenter, Artists Space, and at other institutions in New York, London, and Berlin.  

Puttin’ on the Ritz Website

Ben Rivers is an experimental filmmaker and artist based in London.  

Tom Roberge is a book editor and freelance writer. Website

Jennifer L. Roberts is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. She is an art historian focusing on American art from the colonial period onward, with particular interests in craft and materiality theory, print studies, and the history and philosophy of science. She is the author of Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History (2004), Jasper Johns/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print (2012), and Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America (2014). Website

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet now based in the Vienne region of France. Her most recent books are Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House, 2009) and R’s Boat (University of California Press, 2010) A book of essays, Nilling, is forthcoming from Bookthug in Toronto. Website

Colin Robinson  

Kim Stanley Robinson is a science-fiction author and the winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.  

Michael Robinson is a film and video artist based in Chicago. His work has been shown in festivals, cinematheques, and galleries internationally, including the New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, and London film festivals. Website

Claudia La Rocco is a writer whose work frequently revolves around interdisciplinary projects and collaborations. She is the author of The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited, 2014), a work of selected poetry, performance texts, images and criticism; and the novel Petit Cadeau (The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2018). She has received grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Rainin Foundation, and Creative Capital from the Warhol Foundation, and had residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Lukkeskåra/Rådlausjuvet (Norway). She has taught and lectured at Princeton University, the School of Visual Arts, the San Francisco Ballet, and Tokyo’s Dance New Air festival, among others; and has written for numerous publications, including Artforum, BOMB, East of Borneo, and the New York Times, where she was a dance and theater critic and reporter from 2005 to 2015. La Rocco founded the social and online criticism collective the Performance Club, and is editor in chief of SF MoMA’s art and culture platform Open Space.  

Zach Rockhill is an artist and architect living and working in Brooklyn. Website

Torbjørn Rødland is a Los Angeles–based photographer whose books include White Plant Black Heart, I Want to Live Innocent, and Andy Capp Variations, and, most recently, Vanilla Partner. Website

Pooneh Rohi was born in Iran in 1982 and grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in linguistics. Her debut novel Araben was published in 2014.  

Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his monumental clay sculptures and represented Argentina at the 2011 Venice Biennale.  

Brian Rosa is an American photographer, urban researcher, and curator based in Manchester, England, where he is a PhD student in human geography at the University of Manchester. Website

Jen Rosenblit lives in New York City and makes performance that engages bodies, architectures, and ideas surrounding the discontents of desire and autonomy. Her works focus on an improvisational approach to choreographic thought, locating ways of being together amidst seemingly impossible spaces. Recent works include Clap Hands (Invisible Dog/New York Live Arts, 2016) and a Natural dance (the Kitchen, 2014). Rosenblit is a 2016 MAP FUND recipient and a 2015–16 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence; she received a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Emerging Choreographer for a Natural dance. Rosenblit’s upcoming work, Swivel Spot, in collaboration with Geo Wyeth, premieres at the Kitchen in March 2017.  

Carne Ross is a former British diplomat and founder of the nonprofit advisory group Independent Diplomat. He is also the author of The Leaderless Revolution.  

Steve Rowell is an artist and researcher working between Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Berlin. He examines technology, culture, and infrastructure on, beneath, and above the landscape, contextualizing the built and the natural environments, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and cartographer. Photography, video, and sound recordings from the field provide a medium for his projects. In addition to his own practice he collaborates with the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), SIMPARCH, and the Office of Experiments. Website

Rufus Corporation is a Brooklyn-based ad hoc “think tank” of performers, artists, musicians, writers, and programmers who collaborate on films and artworks. Their previous work includes Yuri’s Office (2009), The Rape of the Sabine Women (2006), and 89 Seconds at Alcázar (2003). Rufus Corporation’s most recent foray is the coproduction of performances at the Wallabout Oyster Theatre in south Williamsburg. Website

Alix Rule is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge. She earned a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 2017. She is the cofounder of Useless Press, a publishing collective that creates “eclectic Internet things.” Her writing has appeared in Dissent and Harper’s Magazine, among other magazines. Website

Norman Rush is the author of three novels, including Mating, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1991.  

Ben Russell is a media artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances engage with the history and semiotics of the moving image. He has had solo screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts, threewalls and the Museum of Modern Art. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient, he began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, was co-director of the artist-run space BEN RUSSELL in Chicago, IL and performs in a double-drum trio called BEAST. Website

Nicole Russo  

Peter J. Russo is the former director for Triple Canopy and an independent consultant working in the fields of art and philanthropy. Website