Interview by Ilyn Wong // May 31, 2019
For the Berliner Tanztage in March of this year, the performer Olympia Bukkakis presented ‘Gender Euphoria’, a performance-lecture-cabaret show that proposes drag as a way to experience not only a sense of euphoria…[read on]
Article by Johanna Hardt // May 24, 2019
It starts off in low light. In almost total darkness, the dancers walk on stage. Standing motionlessly until the first beat of the music drops. Low beats, blue lights – the duo starts to turn, twist, jerk on the floor…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // May 03, 2019
¥€$Si Perse is, in the words of its creators, “a fiction suit – a hyperstitional interface” that allows its wearers to enter into alternative narratives. This acts as both a point of departure from this world and a form of…[read on]
Article by Johanna Hardt // Apr. 23, 2019
Creamcake’s second experimental symposium on cyber- and technofeminist thinking, took place a couple of weeks ago at Berlin’s aquarium and Südblock, two community-run spaces right next to each other…[read on]
Article by Nora Kovacs // Apr. 17, 2019
The anticipation surrounding the latest BMW Tate Live Exhibition at Tate Modern had been palpable in the months leading up to it, this March. The exhibition, titled ‘Sex’, carried a mysterious air…[read on]
Interview by Emily McDermott // Apr. 09, 2019
Following what he calls a “full-on mystical experience” in 2016 in Helsinki, photographer Alec Soth pressed pause on his familiar routine of traveling, giving talks, hosting workshops and taking photographs…[read on]
Interview by Michelle Standley // Apr. 05, 2019
In honor of this month’s ‘Travel’ theme, we sat down with the New York and Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian, whose work largely deals with the pleasures and pains of crossing borders…[read on]
Interview by Nina Prader // Mar. 26, 2019
Once again, Henrike Naumann is tasked with installing the last exhibition in a space before a change: ‘Ostalgie’ is the farewell show at KOW’s Brunnenstraße address. In this “Abrissparty” (demolition party),…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek // Mar. 22, 2019
“Where are we?” As the opening images of Eric Baudelaire’s Also Known as Jihadi appeared, depicting what I would later learn were the streets and neighborhoods of Val-de-Marne in France, the…[read on]
Article by Sarah Messerschmidt // Mar. 18, 2019
Aki Aora, a residency programme in Tulum, Mexico, cultivates a particular focus on the local, aiming to include, and possibly even highlight, those working at the regional level…[read on]
Interview by Lucia Longhi // Mar. 01, 2019
Ewa Juszkiewicz’s work stems from a substantial failure in the history of art: the portrayal of women. Rather than the depiction of a person, portraits of women – especially in the Renaissance – were a composition…[read on]
Article by Celia Wickham // Feb. 26, 2019
‘A Fortnight of Tears’, Tracey Emin’s latest major exhibition currently on display at White Cube in Bermondsey (London), features a vast range of work, from neon and sculpture, to paintings and drawings, to photographs and film…[read on]