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Critical Writing

The Critical Writing program commissions emerging writers to pursue the underlying themes and ideas that inform individual Session projects, initiating meaningful exchanges between artists and writers and facilitating the mutual production of new work.

Writers are given editorial support and a $1000 honorarium. Editorial support for Critical Writing provided primarily by Kemi Adeyemi, with additional guest editors.

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October 2025

streamlined reflections, courtesy of noise canceling headphones

Gabrielle Rucker

Gabrielle Rucker reflects on the radical intimacy and auditory life at the heart of Deli Radio

July 2025

Tell My Jockey: CUNTRY’s Discourse From the Horse’s Mouth

Ericka Pérez

Assembly fellow Ericka Pérez reflects on clowning, resistance, and CUNTRY’s radical refusal to perform.

April 2025

The Second Head of Hercules: Art and Resistance Through Four Years of Upheaval

Shakeem Floyd

written in conjunction with artist Onyedike Chuke's Session x Assembly project, The Forever Museum Archive: Circa 2020_An Object