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🚀 Announcing the lineup for the 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium!

Triple Canopy’s annual symposium is a manifestation of the magazine’s concerns and collaborations, in person and in real time. The multiday gathering brings together artists, writers, performers, and researchers to address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to a range of critical issues.

The 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium is supported by Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette and Public Records. Programs on November 9, 10, and 15 are presented in partnership with Public Records’s Durations festival. This year’s symposium is sponsored by Feeld and A Fu***ng Magazine.

Worker Coffee will be on site selling coffee and pastries.

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

The visual identity for the 2026 Symposium was created by Kevin D**g (Kevin D**g).

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Roulette Intermedium
PUBLIC RECORDS
DURATIONS
Chloe Bass
Hal Foster
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Sophie Lewis
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David Hill
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Morgan Bassichis
Kassie Krut
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Feeld
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Join Triple Canopy (Triple Canopy) and Electronic Arts Intermix (Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)) on Thursday, November 5, for a conversation–performance between artist and ventriloquist Sophie Becker (Sophie Becker) and University of Southern California professor and scholar Sarah Rebecca Kessler (sarah).

Ventriloquism, the story goes, emerged in ancient Greece as a form of manipulation, with mistresses of “belly speech” claiming to channel the gods. By the nineteenth century, these false prophets were replaced by a standard stage act: a ventriloquist speaking through a dummy’s lips as part of a magic show, distracting the audience while pulling off a trick. Recently, the art form has seen a resurgence, with a new wave of ventriloquists taking on master-puppet dynamics or speaking the unspeakable (with a dummy channeling the id). The appeal of these old-fashioned acts hinges on uncanniness, as Kessler writes in Out of Sync: Ventriloquism in­ Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok (Duke University Press, 2026), but also on the voice’s vulnerability in the face of new technologies for reproducing, appropriating, and fabricating speech.

On the occasion of Out of Sync’s publication, Kessler will speak about the “age-old embodiment of the disembodied voice” as bridging the history of minstrelsy and “anx­ieties about media and mediation in the digital era.” Becker, a ventriloquist known for performances with dummies—Jerry and Ronnie—that take on lives of their own, calling Becker’s primacy into question, will join Kessler. In a conversation with Ronnie, Kessler and Becker will reckon with the role of ventriloquism in propping up pseudapostles, inspiring TikTok’s lip-syncers, and ending Milli Vanilli’s career.

The event will include screenings of ventriloquism-related films and videos from Electronic Arts Intermix’s catalogue.

🔗 RSVP now through the link in Triple Canopy’s profile.

➿ “What makes the time loop both appealing and terrifying is the tempting thought that our own human mind might be the only real thing in the world, our individual experience the only one like it.”

From Groundhog Day to Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, time-loop narratives increasingly speak to the sense of alienation and uncertainty that defines much of the present. The protagonists of these stories are usually stuck and alone, doomed to repeat the same day over and over again without escape.

In a new essay, Walker Rutter-Bowman (Walker Rutter-Bowman) investigates how the temporal glitch that removes these characters from a shared reality can make space for new concepts of time and forms of community.

🔗 Read the essay through the link in our profile.

Join Tufts University Art Galleries (Tufts University Art Galleries) and Triple Canopy (Triple Canopy) in Boston on Wednesday, October 16, for a dialogue between artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor Arnold J. Kemp (Arnold Joseph) and artist and Triple Canopy senior editor Mira Dayal (Mira Dayal).

Kemp and Dayal will discuss how they work with language in their writing and visual practices, paying particular attention to the materiality, legibility, and production of text. Ahead of Kemp’s series of performances at the galleries, the pair will also consider how Kemp approaches contingencies—the theme of Triple Canopy’s next issue—across his visual art, writing, and performances.

🔗 RSVP now through the link in Triple Canopy’s profile.

Arnold J. Kemp’s exhibition “Not One Thing” is currently on view at Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, Massachusetts.

Image caption: Arnold J. Kemp, Mr. Kemp: Yellowing, Drying, Scorching, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery.

In the poet Kim Eon Hee’s writing, the body is in grotesque flux: fluids escape pores, flesh rots, excrement trickles down legs, genitalia twitch. Kim’s approach to feminist aesthetics eschew propriety in favor of the excessive, abject, and taboo through provocative language that is unsettlingly direct. But the poems are also funny: “We can’t possibly be the Creator’s handiwork,” the speaker of one poem muses. “His excrement, maybe—shat out to mark His territory in this desolate universe.”

Bodily and linguistic holes overlap in these poems, newly translated by Soje (Soje), dredging up the banal violences and alienations embedded in language and social hierarchies. In response, the artist Mire Lee (Tina Kim Gallery, Sprueth Magers), who is inspired by and has incorporated Kim’s poetry into her installations, created four new artworks to accompany Kim’s contribution to Not Nothing, our current issue.

🔗 Read the poems through the link in our profile.

Image credit: Detail of Mire Lee, Untitled, 2026. Leaded solder alloy, copper and brass on expanded metal sheet, 5½” × 8”. Photo by Enrico Boschi. Courtesy of the artist.

🧑‍💻 On Thursday, September 17, join us for Shift Ctrl, a conversation with Clarissa Redwine (Clarissa Redwine) and JS Tan (JS Tan), coauthors of Against Tech Oligarchy (Haymarket Books, 2026), and artists Tega Brain (Tega Brain) and Sam Lavigne (Sam Lavigne), whose digital works explore the intersections of technological tools and labor.

Over the past decade, class conflict has erupted in the tech industry. While Silicon Valley executives curried favor with the Trump Administration, tech employees organized against, for example, contracts with the military and big oil, as well as for increased worker protections and, eventually, unions. Despite initial momentum, the backlash against what became known as the tech worker movement was swift, indicating that typical organizing playbooks don’t quite fit an industry designed to “move fast and break things.”

Together, they will imagine new tactics for gaining leverage in the tech industry and discuss strategies for organizing that could address tech workers’ specific circumstances and what sabotage looks like for the “laptop class.”

🔗 RSVP now through the link in our profile.

📸 Our Anagram and URL totes spotted in the wild!

Designed by Triple Canopy creative director Tiger Dingsun (Tiger Dingsun), these XL, heavy-duty cotton totes are perfect for schlepping through New York City, exploring the forests of Sweden, and carrying dogs and flowers alike. 🐶🌼

🔗 Snag a tote—and support Triple Canopy’s work—through the link in our profile!

👀 Have snapshots of yourself repping Triple Canopy merch? Please send us your photos by DM or to [email protected]!

Triple Canopy Symposium 🤝 Durations (DURATIONS)

We’re excited to partner with Public Records (PUBLIC RECORDS) to present three programs for Durations as part of this year’s Triple Canopy Symposium.

🏫 Civic Crash Course with Chloë Bass (Chloe Bass) & Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (crovvns)
Monday, November 9
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP

A conversation about the destruction of artworks and how artists understand (or misunderstand) the public—and vice versa.

🌪️ Hurricane in the Fog Machine with Jesús Hilario-Reyes (Jesus Hilario-Reyes | MOREN # # #) & Benjamin Krusling (bk)

Tuesday, November 10
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP

A conversation about sirens and emergency signals—and the interplay between far-reaching sounds, mass movement, transmission, and transcendence.

🎹 An Evening with Terre Thaemlitz (Live Piano) & Ciarán Finlayson (ciarán)

Sunday, November 15
7 p.m. at Roulette
$35 (plus fees)

The legendary house producer, DJ, and writer Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles) will perform her first composition for solo piano live at Roulette, followed by a conversation with Triple Canopy contributing editor Ciarán Finlayson.

🔗 Visit the link in our profile to RSVP or purchase tickets!

⭐ Triple Canopy’s annual symposium is a manifestation of the magazine’s concerns and collaborations, in person and in real time. The multiday gathering brings together artists, writers, performers, and researchers to address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to a range of critical issues. The 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded (Critical Minded).

The rest of our program, hosted at Roulette (Roulette Intermedium) on November 13 and 14, will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

The visual identity for the 2026 Symposium was created by Kevin D**g (Kevin D**g).

“It’s more how the Hole has been filled, so to speak, that has built its legend.”

This past spring, Alan Dean (alan_e_dean) visited the Hole, a New York City neighborhood named in reference to its low grade and neglect by city government (it was never connected to the sewer grid). In the latest Hole Report for our thirtieth issue, Dean investigates the neighborhood’s storied past, flood-prone present, and potential (Eric Adams–mandated) future.

🔗 Read the essay through the link in our profile.

🎤Save the date for Triple Canopy’s 2026 Symposium! Join us November 9–15 in Downtown Brooklyn.

Triple Canopy’s annual symposium is a manifestation of the magazine’s concerns and collaborations, in person and in real time. The multiday gathering brings together artists, writers, performers, and researchers to address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to a range of critical issues.

The full lineup will be announced soon. We’re excited to partner with Roulette (Roulette Intermedium), Public Records (PUBLIC RECORDS), and Critical Minded (Critical Minded) this year to present programs over the course of five days. Keep an eye on our newsletter (and Instagram) to be the first to know when registration opens.

The 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium is supported by Critical Minded and hosted by Roulette and Public Records. Programs on November 9, 10, and 15 are presented in partnership with Public Records’s Durations (DURATIONS) festival. The visual identity was created by Kevin D**g (Kevin D**g).

🔗Read more through the link in our profile.