Change Agents is the seventeenth print issue of PARIS LA magazine. The special 300-page edition features a portfolio of work by fifty contemporary artists whose practices reflect our current times as they move the culture forward. Plus: a collection of conversations, visual essays, and texts.
In addition, conversations with some of the most innovative and imaginative artists, authors, curators, and theorists of the day show us where we've been and clarify the paths and possibilities ahead: Saidiya Hartman and Arthur Jafa;
Andrea Fraser, Liza Lou, Shinique Smith, and Susan Unterberg with
Helen Molesworth;
Legacy Russell with
Hans Ulrich Obrist;
Betye Saar, Alison Saar, and Lezley Saar with jill moniz;
McKenzie Wark with Matias Viegener;
Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner;
Jackie Winsor, Michelle Lopez, and Anna Sew Hoy with Alex Klein;
Élisabeth Lebovici with Dorothée Perret.
Visual essays by Monica Nouwens and
Émilie Notéris, poetry by Jennifer Elise Foerster and Anna Kleiva, and texts by Lea S. McChesney and
Anne Dressen round out this 300-page special issue.
Works by
Marie Angeletti, Olga Balema, Sadie Barnette,
Nina Beier, Hemali Bhuta, Zoe Buckman, Pia Camil, Zoya Cherkassky, Liz Cohen, Kate Costello,
Liz Craft, Zackary Drucker,
Latifa Echakhch,
Ida Ekblad, Vanessa German, Maureen Gruben,
Deniz Gul,
Shara Hughes,
Anne Imhof, Merritt Johnson, Jennie Jieun Lee, Ligia Lewis, Katja Mater,
Mélanie Matranga, Ragen Moss, MPA, Audie Murray,
Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Toyin Ojih Odutola,
Silke Otto-Knapp,
Mai-Thu Perret, Lúcia Prancha, Charlotte Prodger, Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Christina Quarles, Jessi Reaves,
Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Carissa Rodriguez, Guadalupe Rosales, Vivien Sansour,
Tschabalala Self, Mithu Sen, Ser Serpas, Tejal Shah,
Emilija Škarnulytė, Sara VanDerBeek, Esther Pearl Watson, Amy Yao, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye...
PARIS LA is an independent journal focused on experiments in arts, founded in 2008 by the editor Dorothée Perret (
DoPe Press). Published once a year,
PARIS LA operates as an independent creative space and invites each season, artists, designers, photographers and writers to collaborate and to share their vision in relation to a theme.
