Video art can be a tricky medium—it requires an attention span that isn’t always easy to access in art-viewing settings. So when I emerged from Mudam Luxembourg’s underground space…[read on]
Miloš Trakilović’s solo exhibition, ‘Not a Love Song,’ currently on display at KW, explores the entanglement of sound, history and technology. The artist trained neural networks on war-zone recordings to detect latent tonalities…[read on]
“All things are alter’d, nothing is destroyed,” writes John Dryden, translating Odin’s ‘Metamorphosis.’ Or M. NourbeSe Philip, who borrows this epigraph from Odin in her book…[read on]
Shu Lea Cheang is a ground-breaking Taiwanese artist whose works have long considered the cycles of growth and decay in rural, urban and digital environments, as well as the ways in…[read on]
Artist, researcher and curator Sybille Neumeyer recently opened the group show ‘Teleconnections’ at D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, as part of her long-term artistic research into the narratives…[read on]
Vera Kox’s affectionately named “creatures” look like something between industrial pollution—think of the white blobs of polyvinyl acetate that recently washed onto the shores…[read on]
Gisèle Vienne’s dolls stare. They do so impassively; at the gallery’s floors, at the ceilings, at the walls or out its windows. They never lock eyes, despite always existing in each other’s vicinity…[read on]
After decades of pernickety poststructuralist critique, nothing is neutral or pure anymore—especially in the space of contemporary art where every detail is amplified…[read on]
In October of this year, Palestinian-Danish artist Larissa Sansour opened her sweeping solo exhibition at Amos Rex in Helsinki. The thoroughly darkened underground space…[read on]
In thinking about what makes something—or someone—alien, the question of perspective is central. The differentiation between “native” and “alien” ultimately concerns the side…[read on]
Donald Trump was elected President of the United States (again) this week. Throughout his campaign, he’s been threatening mass deportations, to be enacted under the ‘Alien Enemies Act…[read on]
