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X-Tra is a contemporary art quarterly published by the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a nonprofit corporation. The journal is collectively edited by a board composed of independent artists and writers based in Los Angeles.

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X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997.

Featured in this issue: Performance artist and photographer Dorit Cypis interviews internationally renowned dancer and choreographer Simone Forti. Columns: In the first edition of Artspeak, a column looking at the ever-evolving lingo of studio, gallery, and theory, Micol Hebron contemplates “cornceptual.” In the second installment of his Postcard series, Allan deSouza reports from the College Art Association conference in Seattle and several concurrent exhibits. Artist’s Project: Enid Baxter-Blader presents Full Moon in Sunbury, a sequence of delicate yet tough pencil sketches that storyboard scenes from an imaginary film. Reviews: Leslie Dick finds in Hannah Wilke an artist who explored the complex and contradictory nature of female subjectivity. Jim Welling responds to the resonance of early conceptual photography in the work of Bia Gayotto. Artist Karl Erickson attempts to resolve his basketball complex by searching for good advice in artists’ self-help books. Architects are mildly taken task for prioritizing pedagogy over pleasure in a review by Kristina Newhouse. Daniel Mendel-Black sees the devil in a new translation of the cult horror novel The Other Side by Alfred Kubin.