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Matilda Lin Berke is—among other things—a theorist, fiction writer, curator, and poet. She likes categories but doesn't adhere to them. (Linear CV)
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Image Theory
Alt. Methods of Comm.
Theory of Forms
Misc. Fiction / Poetry
Art Criticism
Literary Criticism
📁 Image Theory

Image Theory (Ways of Seeing)

Glamour as an Exoskeleton - Purple Fashion Magazine (Forthcoming 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)

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📁 Alternative Methods of Communication

Alternative Methods of Communication

(Ways of Saying)

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)

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📁 Theory of Forms

Theory of Forms (Ways of Being)

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 / Poetry

Fiction / Poetry (Uncategorized)

A Story - Spectra Poets (2025)

Contrapasso - Serpent Club Press: New Writing (2023)

On Invertebrates and Vertebrates - Grand Journal (2023)

Durable Materials for the Afterlife - Brazenhead Review (2023)

Girlfriend (Remix) - HAD (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)

📁 Art Criticism

Art Criticism (Standard)

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)

"TOY STORY:" TOYS TOYS TOYS (group show) at Spielzeug - Impulse Magazine (2025)

"Object Lessons:" Meanwhile (Adam Milner) at RAINRAIN - Impulse Magazine (2025)

See Linear CV for shorter Impulse Magazine reviews (Editors' Selects)

📁 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)

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