Aperture 235 Summer 2019
For the summer 2019 issue of Aperture, guest editor Tilda Swinton draws upon the themes of Virginia Woolf’s prescient 1928 novel Orlando, revolutionary in both form and spirit, to offer original images and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.
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FRONT
Agenda: Exhibitions to See
Birgit Jürgenssen, Garry Winogrand, Henry Wessel, Jonathas de Andrade
Backstory
Amanda Maddox on Dora Maar
Redux
Lou Stoppard on Sleazenation, 2001
Curriculum
By Lyle Ashton Harris
BACK
Object Lessons
My Ring from Orlando, 1992
By Tilda Swinton
WORDS
Orlando: Spirit of the Age
From Virginia Woolf to Sally Potter, life without limits
By Tilda Swinton
On Orlando: Four Reflections
Transfiguration(s)
By Michael Cunningham
A Call to Arms
By Isaac Julien
Hero and Heroine
By Marina Warner
Love Unlimited
By Lynne Tillman
The Time Travelers
How Derek Jarman’s groundbreaking films made history queer
By B. Ruby Rich
The Double
A multimedia pioneer and a maverick poet on the long lives of artists
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Eileen Myles in Conversation
Radical Vision
The enduring genius of Virginia Woolf
Maggie Nelson in Conversation with Shannon Ebner
PICTURES
Finding Orlando
Photographs and introduction by Sally Potter
Collier Schorr
Introduction by Jack Halberstam
Viviane Sassen
Introduction by Jerry Stafford
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Introduction by Vince Aletti
Carmen Winant
Introduction by Sara Knelman
Elle Pérez
Introduction by Justin Torres
FAKA by Jamal Nxedlana
Introduction by Milisuthando Bongela
Walter Pfeiffer
Introduction by Michael Bullock
Zackary Drucker
Introduction by Susan Stryker
Mickalene Thomas
Introduction by Antwaun Sargent