Real Review, Issue 18 Writing Annabel Keijzer

Annabel Keijzer

Among the fundamental questions engaged in the book are the medium specificity of photography

To coincide with their first institutional exhibition in the U

operatic dive into the darkest recesses of the AIDS crisis

Real Review, Issue 18 Writing Annabel KeijzerREAL REVIEW 18 PRETENDING THE WORLD To pretend means to "lay claim" to stretch forward and take hold of what we want, as if it already existed, or were already ours. To pretend is thus to call forth another reality and create truth through the power of conviction alone. It is fashionable to ridicule performative gestures as ineffective posturing. Yet this is literally the only way that new societies come into being. This issue of Real Review is