At Dia Beacon, Renée Green’s first institutional solo show in New York, “The Equator Has Moved,” demonstrates the multidisciplinary artist’s manifold engagements with history, memory, and narrative. Organized by Jordan Carter, the exhibition brings together a group of old and newly commissioned work, including “Space Poems,” a new collection of vibrant, text-based banners, and the 1990s series “Bichos” and “Color,” 1990, the latter reunited here in its entirety.
 
Integral to Green’s artistic output is her varied and prolific writing practice, which encompasses formats ranging from film scripts and works of fiction to open letters, essays, and reviews. In a nod to the Dia show, Artforum here turns to the 2014 anthology of Green’s writings, Other Planes of There. Selected Writings (Duke University Press, 2014), reviewed by critic André Rottmann in the magazine’s February 2015 issue.
 
“While the texts collected here evidently present a valuable guide to the varied and shifting affiliations, references, influences, and contexts that make up the complex terrain of Green’s work, they hardly function as mere explanations of her artistic project,” Rottmann writes. “Instead, the concentration of these writings expands our understanding of contemporary art and culture far beyond the limits of a singular oeuvre.” —The editors

“In this Artforum Dossier, we have gathered texts that focus on artistic practices that reflexively engage with the specific materiality of celluloid—the transparent plastic that served as the most common substrate for moving images before the advent of analog and digital video. These practices typically focus less on storytelling than on the aesthetic possibilities of directly manipulating celluloid film stock, creating sequences of celluloid film frames, or running celluloid film strips through projectors. The results usually emphasize our perceptual experience of light, color, sound, pattern, movement, and space—that is, those elements that provide the language of all moving-image experiences.”
—Tina Rivers Ryan