Triple Canopy

07/10/2025

Triple Canopy’s third annual Symposium begins this Friday!

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Please note that documentation for Language Against Intelligence at 5 p.m. on October 11 will not be uploaded online following the Symposium.

Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to view the full schedule of events and RSVP.

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The 2025 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette.

Worker Coffee will be on site selling coffee and tea. Tapes, publications, and wares will be available from PTP.

Beverages have been graciously provided by Grimm Artisanal Ales, Narragansett Brewing Company, and Zev Rovine Selections.

Media sponsors include BOMB, Boston Art Review, and The New York Review of Books.






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02/10/2025

🎉 Celebrate the Symposium with us and PTP—an artist collective and independent music label—at El Zason!

The afterparty will begin on Saturday, October 11, at 9:30 p.m., with music courtesy of PTP and discounts on food and drinks until 1 a.m. (Mention the Triple Canopy Symposium at El Zason to get 10% off your bill between now and October 11!)

All symposium programming is free to attend. Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to view the full schedule of events and RSVP.

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The 2025 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette.

Media sponsors include BOMB, Boston Art Review, and The New York Review of Books.



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01/10/2025

For Surround Sound, Ryan C. Clarke, Jace Clayton, and an ensemble of improvisers will consider bass as a feeling and a sound—a source of propulsion or foreboding, a tool for merging bodies or shaking bones.

In conversation, Clarke and Clayton will address bass as a figure for the subterranean, sublegal circulation of Black culture, but also as a characteristic that distinguishes between genres: The double bass in jazz serves as a timekeeper and harmonic ground, while the echoing, elastic riddim of Jamaican dub stretches time. “To put it another way,” Clarke asks: “What isn’t a subwoofer in Black culture?”

Clarke and Clayton will share the stage with cellist Dorothy Carlos, drummer Buz Donald, bassist Brandon Lopez, and experimental musician Kwami Winfield, who will respond to the conversation through improvisation.

Surround Sound will take place on Saturday, October 11, at 8:00 p.m.

All symposium programming is free to attend and will be livestreamed. Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to view the full schedule of events and RSVP.

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The 2025 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette.

Worker Coffee will be on site selling coffee and tea. Tapes, publications, and wares will be available from PTP.

Beverages have been graciously provided by Grimm Artisanal Ales, Narragansett Brewing Company, and Zev Rovine Selections.

Media sponsors include Boston Art Review and the New York Review of Books.







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30/09/2025

In 2012, Triple Canopy published Alix Rule and David Levine’s “International Art English,” which named an opaque, theory-laden idiom that had emerged with digital press releases and been adopted (if also decried) by curators, critics, dealers, and artists. Now, though, IAE seems to be dead: The shift to image-based social media and fragmentation of the art world have sapped the power of press releases to grant legitimacy to art (and to art workers).

For Language Against Intelligence, Rule and Levine will speak with critic Dawn Chan and scholar Dennis Yi Tenen about IAE in the age of ChatGPT and text-based slop. How are the linguistic mechanisms of AI and IAE homogenizing or advancing communication (and thought), while also giving us mystifying gems that seem to thwart comprehension and “calculability”? The conversation will be moderated by Alexander Provan, Triple Canopy’s editor.

Language Against Intelligence will take place on Saturday, October 11 at 5:00 p.m.

All symposium programming is free to attend and will be livestreamed. Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to view the full schedule of events and RSVP.

***

The 2025 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette.

Worker Coffee will be on site selling coffee and tea. Tapes, publications, and wares will be available from PTP.

Beverages have been graciously provided by Grimm Artisanal Ales, Narragansett Brewing Company, and Zev Rovine Selections.

Media sponsors include Boston Art Review and the New York Review of Books.






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29/09/2025

How can the struggles and debates of the 1930s guide cultural workers in responding to the current crises? For Culture at the Front, scholar Michael Denning will consider this question alongside the artist-organizers Kay Gabriel, Amirtha Kidambi, and Jackson Polys (New Red Order), who will reflect on their own experiences in organizing for economic equality, racial justice, Palestinian liberation, and indigenous futures. Following brief presentations by each participant, Triple Canopy contributing editor Ciarán Finlayson will moderate a discussion.

Culture at the Front will take place on Saturday, October 11 at 3:30 p.m.

All symposium programming is free to attend and will be livestreamed. Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to view the full schedule of events and RSVP.

***

The 2025 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette.

Worker Coffee will be on site selling coffee and tea. Tapes, publications, and wares will be available from PTP.

Beverages have been graciously provided by Grimm Artisanal Ales, Narragansett Brewing Company, and Zev Rovine Selections.

Media sponsors include Boston Art Review and the New York Review of Books.







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26/09/2025

When and why does criticism fail, and who tends to be failed by bad criticism? How has the fixation on identity prevented writers—and the public—from making clear-eyed assessments of creative work? And how do these failures and their impacts differ across disciplines?

For Bad Criticism, Andrea Long Chu and Rachel Hunter Himes will discuss the tendency for biography, rather than an encounter with a work itself, to supplant critical assessment in art and literature. They’ll also examine the continuities and differences in the way critics treat art and artists versus literature and writers.

As Himes writes in a forthcoming essay for Triple Canopy, “When a practice of discrimination honed to exclude the political from the aesthetic meets a people historically produced as political, the outcome is a critical failure.” The conversation will be moderated by Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor.

Bad Criticism will take place on Saturday, October 11 at 2 p.m.

All symposium programming is free to attend and will be livestreamed. Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to view the full schedule of events and RSVP.

***

The 2025 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette.

Worker Coffee will be on site selling coffee and tea. Tapes, publications, and wares will be available from PTP.

Beverages have been graciously provided by Grimm Artisanal Ales, Narragansett Brewing Company, and Zev Rovine Selections.

Media sponsors include Boston Art Review and The New York Review of Books.



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25/09/2025

We’re kicking off this year’s symposium with an evening of performances on the theme of Triple Canopy’s forthcoming issue, holes: absences, aporias, portals, and clearings, from the body to the earth, from plotholes to potholes. Join us at Roulette on Friday, October 10, at 8 p.m.

Participants include the artist and writer Gregg Bordowitz, critic Zoë Hopkins, vocalist Muyassar Kurdi (with music composed by Makimakkuk), poet Lucas de Lima, writer and performer Maya Martinez, artist Louis Osmosis, and choreographer Symara Sarai.

All symposium programming is free to attend and will be livestreamed. Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to view the full schedule of events and RSVP.

***

The 2025 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette.

Worker Coffee will be on site selling coffee and tea. Tapes, publications, and wares will be available from PTP.

Beverages have been graciously provided by Grimm Artisanal Ales, Narragansett Brewing Company, and Zev Rovine Selections.

Medias sponsors include Boston Art Review and the New York Review of Books.










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24/09/2025

“BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!” Donald Trump wrote a few days ago in a post directed at the Taliban, demanding the return of Bagram Air Base. Trump claimed the Taliban would welcome US troops. Why? “They need things from us.” But the Taliban have refused to cooperate. (The official position has been consistent since the Americans evacuated Bagram—and Afghans broke through the gates in celebration, gathering leftover supplies and swinging from transport planes—in 2021.) Fortunately, the artist Aziz Hazara has taken it upon himself to give back Bagram—or, at least, to return tons of the American goods that have resurfaced in Afghan “NATO markets,” alongside artifacts from the Soviet and British invasions. 

Hazara’s project, Coming Home, is an act of defiance as much as repatriation: a call for the occupiers to take responsibility for the consequences of war. Azara and the writer Joshua Craze reconstruct Bagram in “Junk Empire,” a multimedia essay about the base’s role in the war and Hazara’s campaign to send America’s trash—from electronics and ammo to boots and butt plugs—back home. Drawing on Hazara’s research, Craze argues that Bagram was not only a military outpost but a vehicle for the Pentagon to transfer billions of dollars to American contractors (and Afghan warlords) via overpriced Humvees, planes, roads, pipes, tents, security, bribes, etc. Eventually, the contractors stopped including prices on “menus” of services for the Army, and the Pentagon advocated for buying hearts and minds in Commander’s Guide to Money as a Weapons System.

Visit the link in our profile to read Craze and Hazara’s essay.

27/08/2025

Triple Canopy is currently seeking applications for a Senior Editor to work four days per week from our office in Manhattan.

While a sophisticated editorial perspective and sharp writing skills are crucial, we are looking for someone with interest, if not experience, in formats that extend beyond text, given the range of the magazine’s work. We hope to find an editor who has significant experience commissioning and editing text but is excited to forge relationships between distinct forms.

Read more and apply (by September 14!) through the link in our profile.

30/07/2025

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with us and make Sunday evening at Rodeo (.bk) Our Baddest Party Ever. 🥳A huge thank you to all the people who made our summer gathering so special:

📖Sophia Giovannitti (), Zain Khalid (), and Jasmine Sanders ()⁠ for reading from their contributions to Issue 29.

🎶Miho Hatori () and Ian Kim Judd ()⁠ for keeping the soundtrack going.

👨‍🍳LJ Almendras () for the delicious grilled food and Kyle B. Co. () for the cookies!

🎁And, finally, all the TC friends and contributors who donated mystery gifts for our new members! If you missed out, we still have some gifts available; become a member at the $10/month or $15/month level—or upgrade your current membership—and we’ll send one out to you. (It’ll be randomly selected.)

Read more about Triple Canopy’s membership program on our website, and reach out if you have any questions! ✨

11/07/2024

🔧 Announcing issue 29, Our Bad 🔧

Sabotage has long been dismissed as an individualistic and counterproductive act. But if stifling jobs and dysfunctional states are the norm, why not slow the line or lodge a wrench in the gears? Triple Canopy’s twenty-ninth issue, Our Bad, takes up spectacular feats of sabotage as well as subtle subversions that reveal and exploit vulnerabilities in the systems that shape our lives. Our Bad asks how the tactics of mischief-makers and dissenters lead to collective action, especially under conditions that might otherwise look like defeat.

We’ve launched the issue with an introduction by deputy editor Rachel Ossip on sabotage’s trajectory from labor organizing to Elon Musk’s sh*tposting; an essay on cubicle-bound chaos agents and the specter of incompetence by Evan Calder Williams; and a multimedia poem about surveillance, deviance, and the allure of face masks by Benjamin Krusling.

The issue features a new typeface by Nat Pyper called Third World Gay Revolution, which is based on letterforms created by the artist and gay activist Juan Carlos Vidal in 1970.

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29/05/2024

Nightboat Books and Triple Canopy are excited to celebrate the publication of Dawn Lundy Martin’s new poetry collection Instructions for The Lovers (Nightboat Books, 2024) with readings by Martin and the poet Natalie Diaz, followed by a conversation with Simone White and a reception. Join us at TC HQ on June 10!

Instructions for The Lovers is an extended reflection on the boundaries between lovers, strangers, and social bodies. Shifting between lyric and prose, Martin considers how the creation and negotiation of these lines manifest in experiences of s*x, race, aging, and violence—and point to the fallacy of the stable individual.

A reading, conversation, and celebration of Martin’s *Instructions for The Lovers*, a collection of poetry about intimacy and aging. Presented with Nightboat Books. ...