Art Journal
Special Project: Moira Roth, Traveling Companions/
Fractured Worlds, 1999–2001
The following texts are part of Moira Roth’s Traveling Companions/Fractured Worlds series, commissioned by Art Journal. In summer 1999, the journal began publishing the essays as Roth wrote them, either in print or here.Part 1: Here and There, December 1998, Berkeley
Published in Art Journal, Summer 1999
Part 2: Wood with No Names/Ring of Fire, February–March 1999
Published in Art Journal, Summer 1999
Part 3: Spaces and Histories I, England, March 1999
Part 4: Oan Hon (Lost Souls), Lament for Cambodia, Hiroshima, Kosovo, and East Timor, May–September 1999
Published in Performance Research, Spring 2001
Part 5: Of Self and History: Exchanges with Linda Nochlin
Published in Art Journal, Fall 2000
Part 6: Flo Oy Wong: “Made in USA”: A Story in Three Parts
Published in Brian Komei Dempster, ed., Flo Oy Wong. made in usa: Angel Island Shhh (San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop, 2000)
Part 7: Faith Ringgold: Putting Jones Road on the Map
Published in NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall 2000
Part 8a: Of Surfaces and Depths. #1, The Pierian Spring, August 20–29, 2000
Part 8b: Of Surfaces and Depths. #2, R. and The Great Libary of Alexandria
Part 9: “Obdurate History: Dinh Q. L’, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory,” published in Art Journal, Summer 2001




