Publication_Information
Mitch Speed: Publication Launch and Critical Workshop
April 03, 2025 - April 03, 2025
Please join us for the Saskatoon launch of Mitch Speed’s recent publication Closeness Eats Time: Six Essays Inside Art (2025), released by Brick Press. Speed will provide a live reading of selections from the publication, followed by a question-and-answer period with guests and University of Saskatchewan students. The event will take place on Thursday, April 3rd from 6:30 – 8:00 PM in the Rounding space at the Kenderdine Art Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. Snacks and refreshments will be available for guests. This presentation is made possible through the Boyd Trust in Fine Arts.
About the author
Mitch Speed’s criticism has appeared in Frieze, Artforum, Camera Austria, and Mousse, amongst many other magazines. In 2019, Afterall Books published his book on Mark Leckey’s canonical video artwork 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore,' as part of their One Work series. His next book is forthcoming from Floating Opera Press. Speed lives in Berlin.
About Closeness Eats Time: Six Essays Inside Art
In six essays, Mitch Speed plumbs the ambivalences that at once fuel and plague art. Written over the last fifteen years, in parallel to Speed’s work as an art critic, the essays forward ways of writing, which might be better equipped to trace art’s role in life, from personal intricacies to looming political questions.
Each piece proceeds through a specific theme, for example: the art world’s relationship to socioeconomic injustice, the beguiling return of found objects to contemporary art, the devolution of art criticism into a branch of the communications industry, and how we can better understand art’s meanings, by attending closely to the words of the people who make it.
