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Matilda Lin Berke is — among other things — a theorist, artist, video/filmmaker, and fictionist/poet.

She likes categories but doesn't adhere to them.

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Matilda Lin Berke
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(Short) Films
Art
Image Theory
Alt. Methods of Comm.
Theory of Forms
Misc. Fiction + Poetry
Art Criticism
Literary Criticism
Press
📁 Image Theory

Image Theory (Ways of Seeing)

Inside the Pearl II: Infra-Mince, the Message in Miniature (Conceptual Commodities and N-Dimensional Translation) - Mutt Art Review (2026)

Inside the Pearl I (Preface): A Speculative Optical Analysis - Mutt Art Review (2026)

The Exoskeleton of Glamour - Purple Fashion Magazine (2026)

(Get) READY/UNREADY (With Me) - Spike Art Magazine (2023/2024)

ENTER THE ART WORLD: Peter BD's "Gallery Anniversary" (exhibition text/retrospective) - Foreign & Domestic (2023)

Girlblogging (series) - Filmmaker Magazine (2023)

Mirror, Mirror - Unpublished (2021)

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📁 Alternative Methods of Communication

Alt. Methods of Comm. (Ways of Saying)

Tear It Down and Start Again (art world/real world digest via Ai Weiwei LEGO show at CART Department) - Impulse Magazine (2026)

Working Charli xcx Out On the Remix (brat retrospective) - Spike Art Magazine (2025)

Alternative Methods of Communication - Byline (2025), also in print

AUX Cord - Norient (2024)

Durable Materials for the Afterlife - Brazenhead Review (2023)

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📁 Theory of Forms

Theory of Forms (Ways of Being)

Reach Out, Touch Grass (Upstate Art Weekend social diary/screenplay/dance multi-review + MacDowell Medal Day) - Impulse Magazine (2026)

Artist Profile: Mitch Anzuoni - Rhizome (2026)

Method Living (Marina Abramović product review/performance art psychoanalysis) - Spike Art Magazine (2023)

The Internet is Forever - Spike Art Magazine (2023)

The Trad Mystique - Compact Magazine (2022)

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📁 Miscellaneous Fiction and Poetry

Fiction and Poetry (Uncategorized)

Scrimshaw I - Big Score Lit (2026)

A Story - Spectra Poets (2025)

Contrapasso - Serpent Club Press: New Writing (2023)

On Invertebrates and Vertebrates - Grand Journal (2023)

Girlfriend - Forever Mag (2022)

Two Girls (Downtown Bad / A Girl Named Magdalene) - Hobart Pulp (2022)

En Plein Air / In an Emergency / Valley of the Myrtles - The Adroit Journal (2021)

Rotary Dial - Blue Unicorn (2021)

Portrait of Pam Anderson as Drowning Fish - Academy of American Poets (2018)

📁 Art Criticism

Art Criticism (Standard)

Lucia Hierro: Moving Day - Brooklyn Rail (2026)

Barry X Ball: The Shape of Time - Brooklyn Rail (2026)

How Asian Is It? (group show curated by Lilly Wei) at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation - Impulse Magazine (2026)

Haim Steinbach: Five Easy Pieces at Tanya Bonakdar - Brooklyn Rail (2026)

Jeff Koons: Porcelain Series at Gagosian - Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art (2026)

Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties (group show co-curated by Mary Boone and Brett Gorvy) at Lévy Gorvy Dayan - Brooklyn Rail (2025)

"Control Environment:" Possessive (P. Staff debut New York solo) at David Zwirner - Impulse Magazine (2025)

Current and Coming: Statecraft by Expo at the Zimmerli - The Magazine Antiques (2022)

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📁 Literary Criticism

Literary Criticism (Standard)

Paige K. Bradley's Drive It All Over Me - The Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 002 (2023/2024)

IN SEARCH OF LOST VIBES: Living and Dying with Marcel Proust (Christopher Prendergast) / The Novelist: A Novel (Jordan Castro) - The Mars Review of Books Vol. 1 Issue 2 (2022)

MOTUS EX MACHINA: A Review of Kimberly Grey's Systems for the Future of Feeling - The Adroit Journal (2022)

INCONSOLABLE SPACE: A Review of Sumita Chakraborty's Arrow - The Adroit Journal (2021)

🔪Art

Art (Other Kinds)

From the River in group show Trinket at Parent Company (forthcoming November 2026)

Do u rly wan2 live 4evr? in group show Love in a Fallen City at lovers - Chez Cynthia Leung (August 2026)

MY WEBSITE in-progress at matildalinberke.neocities.org - Neocities (perpetual)

🎞(Short) Films

Films and Video Art

(Trailer) Carousel (2026)

The Third Dimension is Time (2026)

(Get) READY/UNREADY (With Me) (2024)

🐟 Press

Press and Mentions

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"What One Angeleno Learned From a Six-Week Bender With the Downtown NY Art Scene," Sammy Loren for Cultured Magazine (2026)

"Thinking Through Screens," Interview with Li Tang Community (2026)

"Art in the Environment of Capitalism: An Interview with Matilda Berke '21," Mabel Zawacki (Wellesley College '24) for Pentimento (2021)

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