Mitchell Anderson
Mitchell Anderson is an artist living in Zurich, where he runs the project space Plymouth Rock.
1.
Riverdale Season 3 Finale
In a year pockmarked with television let downs, Riverdale continuously over-delivered shirtless guys and wack plots. Betty shot her serial killer dad after escaping an organ harvesting scheme run by a cult, Cheryl Blossom shot arrows at her mother, the founder of a life and death LARP game, and, in a flash forward cliffhanger, Jughead is, like, probably dead. It’s the TV we both need and deserve.
2. Speedparade 19 at Mikro, Zurich
This annual weekend-long party in a humble shed of an exhibition space/music venue was ecstasy. Walid El Barbir, Flavio Audino, Luca Digilio and Nicola Kazimir run a club without members and toxicity: doors are open and music is the bouncer. Dancing until Sunday night my heart honestly felt like it was going to explode, then a bunch of us left to see Parasite.
3. Eva Kenny’s Privilege Nostalgia: Reading Beckett During Brexit
Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, this article generously and legibly clarified many questions related to the endless breakup of our times. With Ireland at the forefront of negotiations between Britain and the EU, Kenny traces the fairly recent independence of one country and the post-empire discomposure of another through a lens on a cultural giant who found himself part of neither. That this information came not through opinion articles or tweets, but through a reading of the cultural realm was a high point of hope in 2019.