This issue touches down in a number of exotic islands: Cyprus, Cuba and Manhattan and update the notion of what the local means today: local as dialogical, networked, and dispersed, a place that is best grasped through travel - be the destination domestic, international, or both simultaneously. Articles include Opposition + Equivocation: K8 Hardy in conversation with Michelle White, Object as Index: Ernesto Oroza on discourse, documentary, and necessity, by Gean Moreno, and Never Land: A special project by Christodoulos Panayiotou, interview by Christodoulos Panayiotou (translated by Antonis Bogadakis). The editor's picks of notable shows are Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, reviewed by Amy White, Where Are You From? Contemporary Portuguese Art, reviewed by Sam Watson, Photography from China: 1934-2008, reviewed by Chas Bowie and Whitney Biennial, reviewed by Susan Canning.
