Posts Tagged ‘capitalism’
Deconstructing Narratives at Interfilm 39
by Lorna McDowell // Nov. 7, 2023
Interfilm, founded in 1982 amid the vibrant atmosphere of Kreuzberg’s squats, is soon to present its 39th edition in 2023. As the oldest and largest short film festival in Berlin…[read on]
Visualizing Capital: Isaac Julien’s ‘Playtime’
by Adela Lovric // Apr. 25, 2023
Created in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, Isaac Julien’s video installation ‘Playtime’ (2013) is an intriguing take on the life-altering repercussions brought on by…[read on]
Repairing the Social Bond: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel
by Cristina Ramos // Mar. 31, 2023
Joshua Schwebel exposes the inner workings of contemporary art through installations, interventions and video…[read on]
Rite of Refusal: transmediale 2021 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg
by Aoife Donnellan // Mar. 16, 2021
The theme of transmediale’s 2021 festival, “for refusal,” set out to examine the possibilities engendered by refusal, as deviation from the prescribed, and a proposal…[read on]
The Mine as Metaphor: An Interview with Simon Denny
by Lucia Longhi // Mar. 1, 2021
The exhibition is a deep-dive into the ethics of mining for minerals and data, resulting in a presentation of extractivism as a whole paradigm of the human attitude…[read on]
Prying Geologies: An Interview with Nicholas Mangan
by Hannah Carroll Harris // Feb. 12, 2021
Ancient stone artefacts, air-cooling systems, insect communication and cryptocurrency. These seemingly disparate phenomena are but some of the sprawling curiosities which…[read on]
Turning the Tables: The 11th Berlin Biennale
by Tamaris Vier // Sept. 16, 2020
This year’s Berlin Biennale interrogates many forms of oppression enacted globally, coaxing to the surface seldom-heard stories of the marginalized, forgotten and violently silenced…[read on]
Celebrating Sickness: Feminist Health Care Research Group at BB11
Article by Bárbara Borges de Campos // Feb. 07, 2020
After the Second World War, three out of four of the presidents of the medical association in West Germany were former SS or SA members. By the late 1980s and early 90s, around 80% of gynecologists were male…[read on]
A Strong Desire and the Commodification of a Liberation Movement
Article by Samuel Staples // Aug. 15, 2018
How can we come to define contemporary queerness whilst living under a capitalist regime? In an attempt to spark discussions surrounding this question, ‘A Strong Desire,’ at Berlin project space PS120,…[read on]
Identity and Belonging in an Increasingly Globalized World
Article by Samuel Staples // July 18, 2018
In the exhibition ‘Augmented Sunrise Beneath The Skin,’ currently on view at the Wedding non-profit artist-run space Gr_und, themes of identity and belonging in an increasingly globalized world are confronted…[read on]