Unlicensed: Bootlegging as a Creative PracticeOver the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground

The Broken Boy

almost a year after America entered the Second World War

cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation

a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California

Shabazz’s work from the 1970s to ’90s as it exists in his archive: small prints thematically grouped and sequenced in traditional family photo albums that function as portable portfolios

there is no distinction between the realistic and the fantastic

or mundane

unpacking legacies of genocide and the radical modes of resistance that follow

Through close readings

printed on Tatami paper

publishing ideologies

until she meets Jun