Decree 349

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Issued by the [Cuban] government in July, Decree 349 aims to give the authorities total control over artistic production. Those affected include musicians, artists, writers, and performers, as well as the venues that allow creatives to host events that weren’t first approved by the Ministry of Culture. Those found in violation of the decree, which will be enforced starting December 1, will face fines, property seizure, and jail.

via ArtForum. Repeating Islands compiled some online responses, including the open letter addressed to Mr. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. Miami Herald.

Atlas of Emotion by Giuliana Bruno

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A Verso reprint, 2018.

Bruno in conversation with Marquard Smith, Visual Culture Studies, 2008; pp. 144-165.

[A] form of mapping becomes, in a way, the model for the kind of psychogeography that rethinks spaces in relation to fluid assemblages, and to psychic montage. In this cartography, for instance, you can connect places in a city or on a cultural map not by way of real distances but by way of events that have been experienced in the imagination and in the reality of the people who have lived through them in the space.

Withstandley at Winslow Garage

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Elizabeth Withstandley, “The Symphony of Names: No Man is an Island,” at Winslow Garage. In a collaboration with Icelandic composer Gunnar Másson, Withstandley has created a video installation that dwells on the nature of place and names: A boy travels through the Icelandic countryside as an audio track comprising all 4,129 names from the government names list serves as melodic backdrop.

Opens Sunday at 2 p.m. 3540 Winslow Dr., Silver Lake, Los Angeles, winslowgarage.com.

In the LATimes.