Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Dec. 26, 2017
Erica Scourti’s practice mixes performance art, autobiographical discourse, and code. Her ‘Empathy Deck’ is literally a bot with feelings: it responds to its Twitter followers with custom-made cards specially…[read on]
Article by Ilyn Wong in Berlin // Dec. 22, 2017
In 2015, a 28-year-old black woman named Sandra Bland was arrested after being pulled over for making an illegal lane change. Three days later, she was found dead in her Texas jail cell. This story, as well as her…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Nov. 27, 2017
At the end of my conversation with the artist and activist Madeleine Kate McGowan, she brought up a phrase of Joan Didion’s—something along the lines of, ‘The closer you get to something, the less dangerous it…[read on]
Article by Kimberly Budd in Berlin // Nov. 22, 2017
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor’s practice traverses performance, text, dialogue, dance and theatre with the intention to connect and strengthen communities of black people and people of color…[read on]
Article by Kimberly Budd in Berlin // Nov. 20, 2017
Architect Anne Hodges was commissioned by British-Jamaican investor (and Bob Marley producer) Chris Blackwell to study the traditional architecture and village life of Jamaica and incorporate it in to…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Nov. 7, 2017
Tomasz Kobialka’s new video ‘Pearl Diving for Wyrms’ explores intervention inside a contemporary gaming psychosis, but from the point of view of the gaming company rather than the player. A majestic dragon…[read on]
Article by Kimberly Budd in Berlin // Oct. 28, 2017
Routinely noted as ambitious, energetic, left of center and ‘not your average’ curator Kevin Rubén Jacobs discusses his passionate and adventurous career moves with Berlin Art Link. Jacobs talks with…[read on]
Article by Nicolas Hausdorf in Berlin // Oct. 20, 2017
It is not easy to make an “intervention” in a world so thoroughly organised around the sophisticated exploitation of human attention economies as ours. Hence, the term often becomes an inflated notion and buzzword…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Oct. 06, 2017
Shag carpet fills one room at Sprüth Magers in Berlin right now, a waxy plastic is emitted from the darkness and eight ambiguous lounging foam figures recline. Waiting for your own body to slip into them, or…[read on]
Article by Ilyn Wong in Berlin // Oct. 03, 2017
I first encountered the work of Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo several years ago in New York, through a series of photographs in which women’s bodies collectively asked questions about resistance,…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Sep. 22, 2017
Romanian choreographer Alexandra Pirici has enacted a number of her recent sculptural additions and ongoing actions in Germany over the last year, beginning with her contribution to the 9th Berlin Biennale,…[read on]
Article by Berlin Art Link in Los Angeles // Aug. 30, 2017
This Spring, American artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken contributed his site-specific architectural intervention ‘Mirage’ to the group exhibition DesertX, which took place in California’s Coachella Valley…[read on]
