(VISUAL ART) In spring’s Art and Performance guide, Jas Keimig described the concept of the installation FLÓÐ (Flood) at the National Nordic Museum as “meditating on climate change.” That’s certainly how one can read it, but my experience of the work, which is by Icelandic artist and musician Jónsi and occupies a huge space in the museum, recalled less the inevitable underwater Anthropocene world with its sad sea sounds and scent of seaweed, and more…

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...