Issue #2 / Winter 2025

Let’s spoil!

The second issue of Mimesis: Film as Performance Magazine turns to practices of recycling, salvaging, replicating, appropriating, reappropriating, regurgitating, and remediating, as they are used in film and performance works that examine environmental, epistemological, historical, and socio-political structures as if they are notional spolia: fragments to plunder, retrieve, critique, and refashion.

About blessed

asher hartman and Jasmine Orpilla

Hartman and Orpilla share with us three pieces about their production Blessed with Switch (2024): the script of the theater production, a text about the production, and a rehearsal video.

POWERNAP

Nina sarnelle

Extrapolating from her performance piece POWERNAP, Nina Sarnelle asks whether care work is a form of solidarity. In her essay, she explores clicktivism, protest culture, and fauxtomated labor as sites of coming to terms with care work, and her own artistic practice.

Through the work of Sanaz Sohrabi, Miranda Pennell, and Onyeka Igwe, Howey examines films that seek to intervene in the legacies of corporate archives.

Tracking the way Namibian histories are haunting Perivi Katjavivi’s feature film, Mushaandja looks at the film’s potentialities in crafting a mode of addressing them.

Examining news media coverage of mass shootings in the U.S. since the 1960s, Yezbick investigates the impact of public violence on contemporary culture.

lost gazes

mohamed abdelkarim

This speculative short story considers a changing urban and environmental landscape in a future, dystopian Cairo. Power and insurgent forces displace the narrator’s gaze that gets lost in the sedimented layers of history.

Mimesis Magazine is a privately produced, artist-run journal, based in Oakland, CA (USA), Mumbai (India), and Berlin (Germany).

Founding Editors: Lior Shamriz and Elbe Trakal
Published by Mimetic Publishing

Issue #2:

Editors: Neha Choksi, Lior Shamriz, and Elbe Trakal

Contributing Editors: Matt Polzin and Anna R. Winder