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“Atkins adapts the term corpsing … his examples are when a vinyl record jumps or a streaming movie buffers. To corpse a medium is to expose its materiality, even to underscore its mortality, and in this moment the real might poke through.”
– Critic Hal Foster, on the simulated bodies and ‘dead’ media in The Worm (2021), the centrepiece of Ed Atkins’ recent show at New York’s New Museum