Chris Fite-Wassilak
@cfitewassilak.bsky.social
writer, critic, editor, mycelial juicebag; writing nonfic book on cheese & hygiene. Associate Editor ArtReview; tutor RCA MA Writing, ‘23-24 London Library Emerging Writer. Books: Ha-Ha Crystal (Copy Press, 2016), The Artist in Time (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...
edition 02: un/familiar | glut press
Discover edition 02 of glut literary journal: "Un/familiar".
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October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...
Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...
edition 02: un/familiar | glut press
Discover edition 02 of glut literary journal: "Un/familiar".
www.glutpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...
Remix as strategy of hope: my London october exhibition roundup, with Ruoru Mu at Cell, Edward George at Warburg and on: www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
London roundup - Criticism - e-flux
At the back of Cell Project Space are two thick steel doors resembling walk-in fridges. Something small repeatedly flicks against their
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October 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Remix as strategy of hope: my London october exhibition roundup, with Ruoru Mu at Cell, Edward George at Warburg and on: www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
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Draught is now live!
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Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
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Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
Enjoying that the summer blockbuster duel is between what were always the most oppressively normcore comic characters; marvel even going so far as to do an advert linkup with…the UK Gov’t 🫠 #goteam #whitebreadsummer
July 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Enjoying that the summer blockbuster duel is between what were always the most oppressively normcore comic characters; marvel even going so far as to do an advert linkup with…the UK Gov’t 🫠 #goteam #whitebreadsummer
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Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is published today. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable lives of those affected past and present. I am very proud of it, and beyond thankful to those who told their story.
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is published today. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable lives of those affected past and present. I am very proud of it, and beyond thankful to those who told their story.
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Comic I did for ArtReview earlier this year.
Really like this one. Thanks to @cfitewassilak.bsky.social for his wonderful support on it.
Really like this one. Thanks to @cfitewassilak.bsky.social for his wonderful support on it.
June 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Comic I did for ArtReview earlier this year.
Really like this one. Thanks to @cfitewassilak.bsky.social for his wonderful support on it.
Really like this one. Thanks to @cfitewassilak.bsky.social for his wonderful support on it.
My v short review of your breezy creepy beach read
A whodunnit by the masked Japanese YouTuber seems keen to validate the keyboard brigade artreview.com/strange-pict...
Strange Pictures by Uketsu, Reviewed
A whodunnit by the masked Japanese YouTuber seems keen to validate the keyboard brigade
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May 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My v short review of your breezy creepy beach read
I did a rant in @artreview.bsky.social about all the art food stuff flying about! taking issue with the rhetoric and framing around food practices, celebrating gallery day pints, and food event gloating. 🍿🍰🍦🍖 artreview.com/just-eat-the...
Just Eat: The Artworld’s Strange Relationship With Food
Culinary experiences in the artworld are on the rise, but why does food need to be framed as ‘art’ in order to be considered something special?
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April 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I did a rant in @artreview.bsky.social about all the art food stuff flying about! taking issue with the rhetoric and framing around food practices, celebrating gallery day pints, and food event gloating. 🍿🍰🍦🍖 artreview.com/just-eat-the...
Spike art mag did a Food issue - so I wrote a few appetisers on my buzz: sci fi and cheese - with Woman on the Edge of Time as the definitive sci fi food book, food pills, goats cheese and goat semen. Have a look at issue 83: spikeartmagazine.com/articles/amu...
Amuse Bouche | Spike Art Magazine
Do you dream of eating pony? Defiling challah? Mukbanging a tray of giant water snails? Don’t worry about overdoing these 7 wild cravings, there’s immunity to every toxin – even airplane food.
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April 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Spike art mag did a Food issue - so I wrote a few appetisers on my buzz: sci fi and cheese - with Woman on the Edge of Time as the definitive sci fi food book, food pills, goats cheese and goat semen. Have a look at issue 83: spikeartmagazine.com/articles/amu...
Got to have a preview gander at @jennylinford.bsky.social ‘s great museum dive Repast, out this month (its saucepans and scrolls an expansive exhibition in book form, tucked in with AR’s April ‘shows to look out for’)
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Olivia Erlanger and Phuong Ngo to the expansion of São Paulo’s MASP artreview.com/the-10-exhib...
The 10 Exhibitions to See in April 2025
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Olivia Erlanger and Phuong Ngo to the expansion of São Paulo’s MASP
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April 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Got to have a preview gander at @jennylinford.bsky.social ‘s great museum dive Repast, out this month (its saucepans and scrolls an expansive exhibition in book form, tucked in with AR’s April ‘shows to look out for’)
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Look ahead to 2025 and eat dirdt: join us at SJQ in Dalston 17th Feb for a night of stretched vocals and electric landscapes, with sets from Mary Hurrell, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe and Bod Liqbt’s live debut and EP launch. Info n tix:
wegottickets.com/event/643317
wegottickets.com/event/643317
December 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Look ahead to 2025 and eat dirdt: join us at SJQ in Dalston 17th Feb for a night of stretched vocals and electric landscapes, with sets from Mary Hurrell, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe and Bod Liqbt’s live debut and EP launch. Info n tix:
wegottickets.com/event/643317
wegottickets.com/event/643317
Compiling, making some sense by re-collecting what i read in 2024, roughly as it happened and typically out of whack. Monstress and Scattered All Over the Earth i think were my highlights
January 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Compiling, making some sense by re-collecting what i read in 2024, roughly as it happened and typically out of whack. Monstress and Scattered All Over the Earth i think were my highlights
Look ahead to 2025 and eat dirdt: join us at SJQ in Dalston 17th Feb for a night of stretched vocals and electric landscapes, with sets from Mary Hurrell, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe and Bod Liqbt’s live debut and EP launch. Info n tix:
wegottickets.com/event/643317
wegottickets.com/event/643317
December 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Look ahead to 2025 and eat dirdt: join us at SJQ in Dalston 17th Feb for a night of stretched vocals and electric landscapes, with sets from Mary Hurrell, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe and Bod Liqbt’s live debut and EP launch. Info n tix:
wegottickets.com/event/643317
wegottickets.com/event/643317
Dublin! Tomorrow night! mirror lamp press issue 10 launch at the Douglas Hyde, with readings from Orit Gat and more. The issue, on giving up, includes Wendy Erskine, Roy Claire Potter, Fergus Feehily, and my own brief ups to give…
December 4, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Dublin! Tomorrow night! mirror lamp press issue 10 launch at the Douglas Hyde, with readings from Orit Gat and more. The issue, on giving up, includes Wendy Erskine, Roy Claire Potter, Fergus Feehily, and my own brief ups to give…
Wed night, first time reading from the cheese book! Launching the anthology to mark end of the London Library’s 23-24 Emerging Writers programme; been a quick year but also a total privilege to meet and work with these writers, for what will be many times to come. The anthology is out now!
November 29, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Wed night, first time reading from the cheese book! Launching the anthology to mark end of the London Library’s 23-24 Emerging Writers programme; been a quick year but also a total privilege to meet and work with these writers, for what will be many times to come. The anthology is out now!
Pin the tail on the pigoon:
I went to the sci fi apocalypse ballet
I went to the sci fi apocalypse ballet
This is where the world ends: a rave in London’s Royal Opera House artreview.com/a-ballets-gr...
A Ballet’s Grasp for Relevance
This is where the world ends: a rave in London’s Royal Opera House
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November 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Pin the tail on the pigoon:
I went to the sci fi apocalypse ballet
I went to the sci fi apocalypse ballet
Riots, Escapism, and Papering over the cracks: going round 30odd shows and getting stuck on 2nd surfaces… my e-flux roundup of London’s autumn exhibitions www.e-flux.com/criticism/63...
Chris Fite-Wassilak's London roundup - Criticism - e-flux
A BlackBerry phone in a vitrine plays a short video: a nighttime shot of a building on fire. The scene is familiar to anyone who was in London duri
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October 21, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Riots, Escapism, and Papering over the cracks: going round 30odd shows and getting stuck on 2nd surfaces… my e-flux roundup of London’s autumn exhibitions www.e-flux.com/criticism/63...
Mycelial choirs, microbial memory and chewing on the salt of the earth: bod liqbt 2nd EP ‘Eat Dirdt’ out next week as part of UK Cassette Week tremoloprojects.bandcamp.com/album/eat-di...
Eat Dirdt, by Bod Liqbt
4 track album
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October 11, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Mycelial choirs, microbial memory and chewing on the salt of the earth: bod liqbt 2nd EP ‘Eat Dirdt’ out next week as part of UK Cassette Week tremoloprojects.bandcamp.com/album/eat-di...
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Rather than some sort of uneasy ‘other’, they cast AI as more of an unsteady reflection, something Dryhurst describes as “us in aggregate” artreview.com/holly-herndo...
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst's Ghostly Machines
New work by the artists and musicians explores how artificial intelligence can remain part of a fundamentally humanist project
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October 7, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Rather than some sort of uneasy ‘other’, they cast AI as more of an unsteady reflection, something Dryhurst describes as “us in aggregate” artreview.com/holly-herndo...
Illusion, delusion and the possibility of ethical AI: in the Oct issue of ArtReview on Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s AI chorus at the Serpentine: artreview.com/holly-herndo...
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst's Ghostly Machines
New work by the artists and musicians explores how artificial intelligence can remain part of a fundamentally humanist project
artreview.com
October 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Illusion, delusion and the possibility of ethical AI: in the Oct issue of ArtReview on Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s AI chorus at the Serpentine: artreview.com/holly-herndo...
Coltan mines, fireworks, ground-up racehorse bones and relocating ourselves in a dispersed world: got a chance to chat to the expansive artists Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen for the September issue of AR, interview now online too…
“The work often starts from an obsession with something; after that, we’ll make our way through associations that may shed light on a more emotional experience of it” artreview.com/the-intervie...
The Interview: Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen
“The work often starts from an obsession with something; after that, we’ll make our way through associations that may shed light on a more emotional experience of it”
artreview.com
September 17, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Coltan mines, fireworks, ground-up racehorse bones and relocating ourselves in a dispersed world: got a chance to chat to the expansive artists Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen for the September issue of AR, interview now online too…
PSA: there’s a London art project space directory at the bottom of this article: artreview.com/why-london-u...
I’ve tried to keep it up to date, adding a few more recently - get yer skates on, support your local project space
I’ve tried to keep it up to date, adding a few more recently - get yer skates on, support your local project space
September 5, 2024 at 11:41 AM
PSA: there’s a London art project space directory at the bottom of this article: artreview.com/why-london-u...
I’ve tried to keep it up to date, adding a few more recently - get yer skates on, support your local project space
I’ve tried to keep it up to date, adding a few more recently - get yer skates on, support your local project space
In yokohama - fusing of past and present, and leaving us high and dry. I reviewed the triennial, which was refreshingly free of biennial-showcase bs and more (for the most part) just a well put together, era hopping timeblender
The 8th Yokohama Triennale, ‘Wild Grass: Our Lives’, asks us to take a long – and earnest – view of land, time and organic matter artreview.com/yokohama-tri...
8th Yokohama Triennale, Reviewed
The latest edition, ‘Wild Grass: Our Lives’, asks us to take a long – and earnest – view of land, time and organic matter
artreview.com
June 19, 2024 at 11:09 AM
In yokohama - fusing of past and present, and leaving us high and dry. I reviewed the triennial, which was refreshingly free of biennial-showcase bs and more (for the most part) just a well put together, era hopping timeblender
1903 hygiene advice: water? Boil it! Milk? Boil it! Salad? Boil it! And strawberries, definitely strawberries. (More research fun courtesy of Elie ‘sour milk bacteria will make you immortal’ Metchnikoff)
May 30, 2024 at 4:16 PM
1903 hygiene advice: water? Boil it! Milk? Boil it! Salad? Boil it! And strawberries, definitely strawberries. (More research fun courtesy of Elie ‘sour milk bacteria will make you immortal’ Metchnikoff)