Staging Silence: Gisèle Vienne’s Three-Part Berlin Presentation
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Trapped in the White Cube: ‘Forgive Us Our Trespasses’ at HKW
by Andrey Shental // Dec. 13, 2024
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]
The Diasporic Mind: An Interview with Larissa Sansour
by Alison Hugill // Nov. 19, 2024
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]
Post-Modern Monstrous: Tai Shani at The Cosmic House
by William Kherbek // Nov. 12, 2024
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]
Letter from the Editor: Alien
by Alison Hugill // Nov. 8, 2024
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]
Cyborg Architecture: Lee Bul at Gropius Bau
Article by Alison Hugill // Dec. 22, 2018
Korean artist Lee Bul’s artistic oeuvre is permeated with theoretical musings tied to a specific era of feminist thinking. While her current large-scale solo exhibition ‘Crash’ at Gropius Bau…[read on]
Seven Competing Centres of Europe: An Interview with Patricia Morosan
Interview by Marta Jecu // Dec. 14, 2018
The European identity remains without any concrete basis: the geographic indicators shift, the idea of the centre enters into local folklore and the monuments indicating it corrode…[read on]
Co-Opting the Other: ‘Extra+Terrestrial’ at Schwules Museum
Article by Benjamin Marvin // Dec. 07, 2018
‘Extra+Terrestrial’, an exhibition curated by the sex-positive, trans-disciplinary collective Coven Berlin, attempts to reimagine alienation by reclaiming the figure of the Other…[read on]
Creature Bodies: An Interview with Baby Punk + Dr. Babuyoka
Interview by Romily Alice Walden // Nov. 27, 2018
Baby Punk + Dr. Babuyoka collaborate in a multidisciplinary live performance that fuses rap, video, hip hop and spiritual ritual. During their performance, video footage of conspiracy theorists and sea…[read on]
Anachronism Now: Henrike Naumann’s Spectral Interiors
Article by Nina Prader // Nov. 23, 2018
In Henrike Naumann’s interiors, memory, amnesia and the present seem indiscernible, simultaneously as flippant as they are nostalgically potent. Her sculptural environments show ideologies, embedded in materials…[read on]
The Aliens Living Inside: Tamara Henderson’s ‘Womb Life’
Article by E.C. LaMorte // Nov. 20, 2018
Not until today, viewing ‘Womb Life’, had I ever drawn a relationship between clay in a kiln, a baby in a womb and the subconscious within consciousness. But these are the kinds of psychedelic connections…[read on]
Countering the Alienation of Roma People at Galerie im Körnerpark
Article by Sofia Bergmann // Nov. 16, 2018
The current exhibition ‘So ist das bei uns’ at Neukölln’s Galerie im Körnerpark is photojournalistic in approach, providing viewers access to a foreign world without exoticizing the subjects…[read on]
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